A Sampling of Clips for 
April 14, 2004

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Midnight Swim Ends Tragically For UC Students
NBC News, April 14-Divers will try to find the body of a young man who was caught in a powerful rip current overnight when he and a group of friends went for a midnight swim at La Jolla Shores beach. San Diego city lifeguards said that five students at the University of California, San Diego, went to the beach shortly after midnight. A young man and two young women, all friends from Ventura County, decided to go for a swim, but the man was swept away from the shore by the current.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/3004284/detail.html

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San Diego Union-Tribune, April 14
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040414-0703-swimmersearch.html

KFMB News, April 14
http://www.kfmb.com/topstory24206.html

Hackers Strike Advanced Computing Networks
Washington Post, April 13-Hackers infiltrated powerful supercomputers at colleges, universities and research institutions in recent weeks, including UCSD's Supercomputer Center, disrupting one of the nation's largest online research networks for several days and raising concerns among computer security experts that the compromised machines could be used to attack specific Web sites or parts of the Internet. None of the systems were permanently damaged, but the hackers gained the ability to control the various networks for at least short periods of time.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8995-2004Apr13.html

New Toxin Threat Found In San Diego Waters
San Diego Channel, April 13-A neurotoxin known to poison marine mammals, birds and people who eat shellfish has been found in the ocean off Scripps Pier, according to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. It is the first time domoic acid, which is produced by common marine phytoplankton, was found in coastal San Diego waters, Scripps said Monday. (Quote by co-chair of the Integrative Oceanography Division at SIO, Elizabeth Venrick, and SIO researcher, Lilian Busse.)
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/news/3000280/detail.html

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City News Service, April 13
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NC State Trustees praise Chancellor Fox
Carolina News Channel 12, April 13-The leader of N.C. State's Board of Trustees says Marye Anne Fox's successor will have some big shoes to fill. Monday, UC San Diego's Board of Regents confirmed Fox's appointment as Chancellor. She will begin work there later this Summer.
http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=45836&SecID=2

Bush May Expand Iraq Force, Links War to Terror Fight
Bloomberg, April 14-President George W. Bush said the U.S. may commit more troops to Iraq to quell uprisings, saying the American people will support the war as part of the fight against terrorism. Bush, 57, said efforts to rebuild Iraq as a democracy are working, rejecting a comparison to the Vietnam War. Uprisings this month have killed more than 70 coalition soldiers, in the bloodiest fighting since Saddam Hussein was ousted a year ago. (Quote by Samuel Popkin, a political science professor at the University of California at San Diego.)
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=aITLGv3vi0L8&refer=uk#

Man of Values and Integrity
The Australian, Letter to the Editor, April 14-For the University of California, the loss of administrator Rory Hume, to his native Australia was deeply felt; yet one could only admire the devotion he exhibited to his country of origin and respect his decision to return to Australia to lend his considerable talents to one of its great public universities. Against this background, one can only imagine our shock and dismay when we learned of his recent resignation and the conditions that prompted that ominous decision. The recent demonstrations in support of Rory by his administrative colleagues, faculty and staff, are consistent with his record and the views strongly held here in the US by all with whom he interacted. (UCSD Acting Chancellor Marsha Chandler, contributed to the letter written to The Australian.)
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Tracing the Twinkle
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 14-Today's most powerful telescopes can take us back to about a billion years after the big bang. "We're looking very far back in time," said Arthur Wolfe, chancellor's associates professor of physics at UCSD. Wolfe is currently leading research to determine when the first stars were formed and to perhaps help answer the age-old question of how the universe came to be.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20040414-9999-lz1c14stars.html

With Proliferation of Ultrasound Studios, FDA Warns of Potential Harm
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 14-Ultrasound imaging, a technology that uses high-frequency sound waves to produce images of organs, tissues or other parts of the body, long has been used safely as a diagnostic tool. A growing host of businesses are now offering ultrasound-produced photographs and videotapes of unborn fetuses as keepsakes for parents. But it's not all good clean fun, according to the Food and Drug Administration, which recently warned pregnant women not to patronize ultrasound photography studios stating that obtaining prenatal ultrasounds when there is no medical need could be hazardous. (Quote by William Bradley M.D., chair of the radiology department at UC San Diego.) http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/20040414-9999-1b14fetal.html