A Sampling of Clips for August 16, 2011

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Radiation from Japan Spiked on West Coast in March
ABC News, Aug 15 -- A spike in radioactive sulfur from the damaged Japanese nuclear plant was detected in California in late March, but researchers say it posed no threat to health.  While the amount was higher than normal background levels, it was still small, said Mark Thiemens of the University of California, San Diego. More

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Marine Organ Donor Family and Recipient Aim To Meet
ABC News, Aug. 15 -- On Aug. 7, Sgt. Jacob Chadwick, 23, of San Marcos, Calif., underwent a four-and-a-half hour kidney transplant at UC San Diego Medical Center that saved his life. His kidney donor was a fellow marine, 24-year-old Lt. Patrick Wayland from Midland, Texas, who went into cardiac arrest on Aug. 1 at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida. Now, both the Wayland and the Chadwick families have told ABCNews.com that they would like to meet, when the Waylands have moved pass the aftershocks of grief and Chadwick has healed from his surgery. More

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Generation Vexed: Young Americans Rein in Their Dreams
Los Angeles Times, Aug. 14 -- Alicia Thomas, 20, had it all planned out: career at a nonprofit, married by 24, mortgage by 26. Then financial markets went on a wild roller-coaster ride, portending that high unemployment and the stalled economy won't be rebounding any time soon. "I don't want to invest in something I can't afford, given the economy breaking down," said Thomas, who is majoring in political science at UC San Diego. "I'll be taking smaller steps." (Thomas is a graduate of the The Preuss School UCSD.) More

Pfizer, UCSD Are a Match Made in Practicality
San Diego Business Journal, Aug. 15 -- In a bid to fast track the discovery and commercialization of promising new drugs, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. is paying as much as $50 million for a five-year collaboration with scientists at UC San Diego Health Sciences. The agreement, announced last week, is the latest in a string of universities partnering with Big Pharma around the world — a trend driven in large part by the scarcity of government dollars to fund science and a business need at pharmaceutical companies to beef up product portfolios, experts say. “Public-private partnerships are increasingly important in scientific research, especially in an era of decreasing federal grant support,” said Gary Firestein, dean and associate vice chancellor of Translational Medicine and director of the Clinical and Translational Research Institute at the UC San Diego School of Medicine. More

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