A Sampling of Clips for
April 21, 2005
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Sharks are
Vital for Coral Reef Health
New
Scientist, April 23-Sharks are vital for the
health of coral reefs, a model of the food web in a Caribbean
reef suggests. According to the model, created by Enric
Sala of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
and colleagues, the removal of top predators allows lesser predators
such as groupers to thrive, leading to a reduction in the number
of algal feeders such as parrotfish. More
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Christian
Science Monitor, April 21
Calif.
College Students March Over Cuts
Newsday, April 21-College students
marched and rallied at campuses across the state and held a
mock funeral Wednesday on the steps of the state Capitol to
protest cuts in higher education funding. More
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articles appeared in:
UK
Guardian, April 21
San
Francisco Chronicle, April 20
Seattle
Post, April 21
Wired
News, April 21
San
Diego Union-Tribune, April 21
Turning
Fearsome Viruses Into Cancer Foes
Forbes, April 20-Transforming an old
medical enemy into a new friend, researchers are using genetic
engineering to draft viruses into the war against cancer. (Quote
by Theodore Friedmann, director of the Program
in Human Gene Therapy at UCSD.) More
Panel Discusses
Fixing Initiative Process
San Francisco Chronicle, April 21-California
voters have made the state's initiative process a virtual fourth
branch of government, but even some supporters are wondering
if there's such a thing as too much democracy. (Quote by Matthew
McCubbins, a political science professor at UCSD.)
More
San Diego
Boosters Contend Judging for Site Unfair
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 21-The
initial judging of San Diego's proposal for the headquarters
of California's new stem cell institute was unfair, local business
boosters contend in a letter to the people who will choose the
site. More
Total Steroid
Ban Would Aid Baseball
Miami Herald, April 20-When the House
of Representatives glared down upon shrinking baseball players
last month, most of us saw a bite of Curt Schilling's blather,
a bite of Jose Canseco's newfound commitment to truth, and another
bite of the self-humiliation of Mark McGwire. (Refers to research
by Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, chair of the department
of family medicine at UCSD.) More
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Kansas
City Star, April 20
Study: Purebred
Dogs Look Like Their Owners
Channel 10 News, April 20-Those who
think purebred dogs look like their owners are barking up the
right tree, but matching a mutt to its master is another thing,
a study by Nicholas Cristenfeld of UCSD
suggests. More
Service Staff, UC Have
Tentative Deal
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 21-Less
than a week after staging a one-day strike, service workers
in the University of California system have a tentative contract
agreement with their employer. More
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Voice
of San Diego, April 21
UCSD Official
Gets Georgetown Job
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 21-A
high-ranking administrator at UCSD will leave
for Georgetown University this summer. Jim Langley,
UCSD's vice chancellor for external relations,
has overseen the 23,000-student campus' fundraising, public
relations and government relations for seven years. More
Brain-Injury
Rehabilitation
Depends on Acetylcholine Circuitry
Medical News Today, April 21-The ability
of the brain to recover from such injury as stroke or trauma
depends on a particular circuitry of neurons that "talk"
to one another using the brain chemical acetylcholine, researchers
led by James Conner and Mark Tuszynski
in the Neural Repair Group at UCSD
have discovered. More
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News
Medical Net, April 20
