A Sampling of Clips for 
April 08, 2005

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Clues to Climate's Future May Lay in Past
CNN, April 8-Climate change could have drastic consequences. Just ask the ancient Egyptians. (Quote by Richard Sommerville, a meteorologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

Hahn Trails Villaraigosa in the Race for Money
Los Angeles Times, April 8-Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn has raised significantly less money for the mayoral runoff campaign than rival Antonio Villaraigosa in the weeks since the March 8 election. (Quote by Steven P. Erie, director of the urban studies and planning program at UCSD.) More

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China's Tense Links with the Vatican
BBC News, April 7-The Pope's funeral was a lavish affair, attended by heads of state from across the globe. But despite China having a 13 million-strong Catholic community, dignitaries from Beijing were notable only by their absence. (Quote by Richard Madsen, a specialist in Catholicism in China at UCSD.) More

UCSD Abandons Effort to Rebuild Chancellor's Home
Contra Costa Times, April 8-UCSD said Thursday it will not be able to raise $7.2 million to rebuild the chancellor's ocean-view home. More

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Fresno Bee, April 8
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The UCSD Medical Center Weight Loss Challenge
KFMB, April 7-If you had 30 days to lose all the weight you could, how many pounds could you shed? For eight employees at the UCSD Medical Center that was their weight loss challenge. And for one nurse, it was just the incentive she needed to finally get into shape and drop some weight. (Quote by Samme Fuchs, the director of clinical nutrition at UCSD.) More

A New Model for Cancer Research
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 8-"Team science" increasingly is being practiced innovatively throughout the National Cancer Institute's cancer center network, including right here in San Diego - at UCSD's Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center. Emblematic of the cancer center network, the UCSD center has become one of many centers for accelerating "translational" cancer research and for developing and applying new technologies - such as genomics, proteomics, informatics and others - for cancer. More

Cells That Go Back in Time
Wired, April 8-Lop off a newt's leg or tail, and it will grow a new one. Researchers who study this mechanism hope one day to learn how to induce the same "cell time travel" in humans. (Quote by Robert Naviaux, who studies cancer and stem-cell differentiation, and is co-director of the Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disease Center at UCSD.) More

When Clocks Spring Forward ...Will You?
San Luis Obispo Tribune, April 7-To night owls, morning people are mystifying. Jumping up before an alarm clock rings, early morning jogs, breakfast without coffee - night owls just don't understand how morning people can do it. (Quote by Dr. Daniel Kripke, who developed one of the first U.S. sleep clinics at UCSD.) More

Connecting to Local Entrepreneurs
San Diego Daily Transcript, April 7-UCSD CONNECT will showcase its most promising members by touting their innovative products and services at its 21st annual show-and-tell financial forum on April 14. More

Animal Research: Why it's Unnecessary and Inhumane
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, April 7-Animal rights activists have to live with the reality that American public opinion strongly supports the use of animals in research, as long as the animals do not suffer unnecessarily. (Article written by Lawrence Hansen, a professor of neurosciences and pathology at the UCSD School of Medicine.) More

ATM-Style Machine Cures Rx Waits
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 8-Asteres and Distributed Delivery Networks Corp. have created ATM-style machines for prescription drugs. In less than a minute, patients can log in, pay up and get out with a refill. (Quote by Chuck Daniels, associate dean for clinical affairs at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UCSD.) More

Another Painkiller, Bextra, Ordered Pulled
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 8-Dr. Paul Speckart of Bankers Hill was just about to renew a patient's Bextra prescription yesterday. But he changed his mind after hearing that Pfizer was ordered to pull the painkiller off the market because of its links to heart disease and lethal skin rashes. (Quote by Dr. Mark Wallace, a pain medicine specialist at the UCSD Medical Center.) More