A Sampling of Clips for 
April 10 - 12, 2004

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Bush Says Brief on Al Qaeda Threat Was Not Specific
New York Times, April 12-President Bush said on Sunday that the intelligence briefing he received on Al Qaeda one month before the Sept. 11 strike contained no specific "indication of a terrorist attack" on American soil. He also defended the adequacy of his response to the warnings that terrorists in the United States might be planning hijackings. (Quote by Samuel Popkin, a professor of political science at the University of California in San Diego.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/12/politics/12PANE.html?ex=1082347
200&en=185787b853d4f9e6&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

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International Herald Tribune, April 12
http://www.iht.com/articles/514367.html

Viagra Gains Some Advocates As Treatment For Lung Disease
New York Times, April 10-Results of a clinical trial in India, published this week
in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology, showed that Viagra increased the ability of patients to exercise by about 40 percent. The authors said that was greater than the effect seen with other drugs in different trials. Although the trial involved only 22 patients, it was the first randomized test to compare Viagra against a placebo for pulmonary hypertension, the journal said. (Quote by Richard Channick M.D. of the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/10/business/10viagra.html

UC San Diego Chancellor to be Named
KFMB News, April 12-The University of California Board of Regents is expected to select Marye Anne Fox as the next UC San Diego chancellor during a teleconference Monday. Fox, 56, a physical organic chemist, has served as chancellor of North Carolina State University since 1998, and previously was
vice president for research at the University of Texas at Austin.
http://www.kfmb.com/topstory24140.html

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San Diego Business Journal, April 12
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News 14 Carolina, April 11
http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=45746&SecID=2

Potential Lifesaver
Los Angeles Times, April 12-PolyHeme, a synthetic blood substitute that could possibly save 10,000 lives a year, is being tested at trauma centers nationwide.
If it proves effective, the artificial blood could save victims of car crashes, gunshot wounds and stabbings as well as soldiers wounded on the battlefield. Eventually it could be used in rural areas or developing countries, where blood supplies may be limited, and as a backup during natural disasters, which can exhaust inventories of stored blood. (Quote by David B. Hoyt M.D., chief of trauma medicine at UC San Diego.)
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-lab12apr12,1,1800564.story

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Copley News Service, April 12
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Voter Turnout Affecting Future of Nation
Newsday, April 10- In the crowning rite of democracy, more than 100 million Americans will join together to make history this November -- to elect a president. But a lot more won't. Some are under 18, and can't vote. But many others just don't. When the world's democracies are ranked according to their voting records, America is at the bottom, with Switzerland. (Quote by Zoltan L. Hajnal, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-how-we-choose-voter-turnout-abridged,0,2435292.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

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San Jose Mercury News, April 12
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/8403091.htm

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 12
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/
AP.V4984.AP-How-We-Choose-V.html

Associated Press, April 11
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Clock Is Ticking on Initiative
Los Angeles Times, April 10-Less than three weeks before the deadline, backers of an initiative that would prohibit illegal immigrants from receiving many public services still need to collect more than 200,000 signatures and have picked up little support from top Republican officials. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a political science professor at UC San Diego.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-proposition10apr10,1,7796716.story

Of Mutts And Men
U.S. News & World Report, April 12-It's one thing to be told you and your kid
look alike. But your dog? A new study lead by Nicholas Christenfeld, a psychology professor at the University of California- San Diego, confirms the
age-old theory that many owners resemble their pet pooches. But take heart, oh snobs among you: It's mostly purebred pups, not mutts, that mirror their masters.
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Cured by an Impostor
The Times (London), April 10-Dummy pills can work better than drugs. Now companies want to harness the placebo effect. Just being told you are going to feel better by someone you trust can dramatically reduce pain and swelling and lift depression. However, the arrival of new potent medicines, such as antibiotics and steroids, turned the placebo from an ally into an inconvenience. (Quote by Beatrice Golomb, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego.)
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UCSD Link Creates a Winning Kentucky Derby
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 11-The 28th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays brings critics, agents, talent scouts and theater reps from
across the country to Louisville a month before Derby Day. With UCSD grads Melanie Marnich and Iizuka among the playwrights; the university's directing head, Les Waters, and his former student, Meredith McDonough, directing;
and a handful of superb Humana actors also among its alumni, the UCSD Department of Theatre and Dance stocked this year's festival with its artists. Maybe that explains the spirit of innovation and exploration that made the 2004 installment seem so vital.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040411-1207-humana.html

Doctor Looks at Ethics of Life and Death
Charlotte Observer, April 12-"Some things in medicine, even though we have the power to do them, we ought not to do them." With that provocative statement, Larry Schneiderman M.D., an ethics consultant at the University of California in San Diego, opened a recent lecture at Carolinas Medical Center. Schneiderman was in Charlotte to give several talks on medical ethics, including "medical futility," the concept that sometimes it is OK not to resuscitate patients or place them on breathing machines if it will not improve the quality of their lives.
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/living/health/8411506.htm

Allyson Green Dance
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 10-In April, internationally acclaimed choreographer Allyson Green will premier a performance commissioned by the San Diego Museum of Art. Thematically, the piece is focused on the creative process, generating and viewing art. This performance is part of SDMA's dance series. And, once again, the novel composition is the brainchild of Green, whose work you may have encountered as part of the popular San Diego Dance Theater "Trolley Dances." Along with being a professor of dance at UCSD, Green has a ten-year history of international success. Her work is consistently cutting-edge
in composition and delivery.
http://entertainment.signonsandiego.com/profile/271335?cslink=cs_arts_3_3

No Sense In Nonsense
The Times Higher Education Supplement, Opinion, April 9-Book review of Intellectual Imposture written by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. Review written
by Joseph Goguen, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, San Diego.
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