A Sampling of Clips for 
April 07, 2004

* UCSD faculty and staff may obtain a copy of an article by e-mailing the University Communications Office

Schizophrenia Meds Ignored
ABC News, April 6-Although anti-psychotic medications can help people with schizophrenia live more normal lives, almost 60 percent don't take these medications as prescribed by their doctors. And that non-compliance leads to higher medical costs, according to a new study co-lead by Dilip Jeste M.D., a professor of psychiatry and neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/Healthology/schizophrenia_medication
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Questions & Answers on Everyday Scientific Phenomena
New Scientist, April 7-Some deep-ocean fish have luminescent lures projecting from their heads to attract prey. This luminescence is created by bacteria, but how do the baby fish acquire these bacteria? Do they come from the
environment around them, and if so how are they subsequently concentrated in the lures? (Q&A with Margo Haygood, a marine biologist at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.newscientist.com/lastword/article.jsp?id=lw1072

$1 Million Awarded to Fire Agencies
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 7-Sixteen fire departments and a burn prevention organization will get more than $1 million this year as the first recipients of grants under a nationwide program launched yesterday in San Diego by Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. Jeff Post, Fireman's Fund chief executive officer, also announced an alliance with the Burn Institute to help finance fire and burn prevention and education. The institute, is a nonprofit health agency dedicated to reducing burn injuries and deaths through fire and burn prevention education, survivor support, and funding for burn care research and treatment. It helped established the UCSD Regional Burn Center.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/fires/20040407-9999-news_1m7firefund.html

Towers Of Life
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 7-On Dec. 4, 2000, a team of scientists,
including Donna Blackman of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, found something that resembled a gigantic undersea mountain whose summit lay
some 2,000 feet below. That "something" proved to be a forest of ghostly towers up to 200 feet tall that decorated a small segment of the massive mountain's summit. Nothing like it had ever been seen on the seabed before, and, to date, nothing similar has been found anywhere else. But scientists speculate that similar chimneys may have represented one of the earliest abodes of life on
Earth and may be one of the closest earthly analogues to places that might harbor life on other worlds, possibly within our own solar system.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20040407-9999-news_lz1c7oflife.html

UC Regent's Discrimination Stance Stirs Ire
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 7-Some Asian-American community leaders yesterday accused University of California regent John Moores of being irresponsible in his attack of UC's admissions policy and his claims that Asian-Americans are subjected to discrimination. Leaders of the Asian Law Caucus, Chinese for Affirmative Action and Asian Pacific American Legal Center called Moores' allegations "half-truths."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20040407-9999-news_1n7asian.html

A California Education in Greed, Bureaucracy
Los Angeles Times, April 7-Readers of the Los Angeles Times submitted their opinions of recent articles, including Jerry Andersen of Pacific Palisades, who questions whether the support of a dog/owner look-alike study (April 4) is an acceptable use of UC San Diego researchers' time and effort, and thus public money.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-le-colleges7.1apr07,1,173932.story

Former UCSD Connect Official Moving to Boston
North County Times, April 6-Abi Barrow, UCSD Connect's former program director, said Tuesday that she is leaving the university and San Diego to move
to Boston. Barrow said she is moving because her husband, Steve Shapin, has taken a tenured faculty position at Harvard. Barrow joined Connect in 1990. She helped its late director, Bill Otterson, build the technology networking group into
a major catalyst for the high-tech and biotech industries in San Diego County. Connect gained fame the world over as a model for organizing a technology community.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/04/07/business/news
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