A Sampling of Clips for 
April 21, 2004

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UC San Diego Freshmen Admission Is Down
NBC News/7/39, April 20-The number of freshmen accepted to the University of California, San Diego for the next two semesters was lower than the previous year, school officials announced Tuesday. Officials said that admission for fall 2004 and winter 2005 semesters fell 2.4 percent. In addition, minority admissions were down 4.9 percent.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/3025071/detail.html

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North County Times, April 20
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/04/21/special_reports/
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San Diego Union-Tribune, Eleanor Yang, April 21
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20040421-9999-1n21admit.html

San Diego Union-Tribune, Michelle Locke, April 21
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20040421-0018-ca-ucadmissions.html

Prevent Heart Disease, Avoid Erection Problems
Reuters, April 20-Men with certain risk factors for heart disease in mid-life -- such as obesity and high cholesterol levels -- are also more likely to develop erectile dysfunction many years later, scientists from UC San Diego indicate. The researchers believe that linking impotence with these risk factors could lead men to take steps to prevent erectile dysfunction (ED), which would also protect them against heart disease. (Quote by senior author Elizabeth Barrett-Connor M.D., from the University of California in San Diego.)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=4885030

Science: Worry Cuts Chance for Conception
Washington Times, April 20-San Diego scientists say women who worry about medical methods for getting pregnant release fewer eggs than those who don't. And as a result, they are less likely to have a healthy baby -- despite the advantage of assisted reproductive technology, a spokeswoman at the University of California, San Diego said. Specifically, women who were concerned about their personal fertility program had 20 percent fewer eggs retrieved and 19 percent fewer eggs fertilized than women who worried less.
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040420-020740-7662r.htm

CV Resident Named Warren College Provost at UC San Diego
Del Mar Village Voice, April 16-The University of California, San Diego theatre professor Steven Adler, a Carmel Valley resident, has been named provost of Earl Warren College. Marsha A. Chandler, acting chancellor of UCSD, announced the appointment earlier this week.
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/eclips/PDF/warrenprovost.pdf

Politically Speaking
NPR, April 19-This week brings the publication of Plan of Attack, the latest product of Bob Woodward's extraordinary personal journalism. With access unlike that of any other journalist in America, Woodward talked with 75 administration officials involved in the decision to make war on Saddam Hussein. Woodward says these interviews, many of them reported without attribution, convinced him that the president had decided on invading Iraq in January 2003, not in March, as publicly announced. (Quote by Samuel Popkin, a professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego.)
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Oceanic Distress Signal
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 21-The nation's ocean waters are exploited by overfishing, fouled by chronic pollution, invaded by exotic species and victimized by government bureaucracies that fail to protect them, a federal panel has concluded. The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, issuing the government's first comprehensive review of ocean health and national policy in 35 years, yesterday called for a commitment to address what it termed a national crisis. (Quote by Charles Kennel, director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20040421-9999-1n21oceans.html