A Sampling of Clips for
April 27, 2004
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Swollen Eyes May Signal
Thyroid Disease
Fox News, April 26-Pat Himmer's eyes
were being pushed out of their sockets. Himmer's eyes began
to bulge from her eye sockets, and her doctors could not figure
out what was causing it. Finally, she found an answer to her
mysterious condition at the University of California,
San Diego Shiley Eye Center. Doctors diagnosed Himmer
with a condition called Graves' disease -- a condition in which
the thyroid gland is hyperactive.
http://www.kfoxtv.com/health/3233948/detail.html
Same article
appeared in:
San Diego Channel, April 26
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/health/3233948/detail.html
NBC News,
April 26
http://www.wpxi.com/health/3233948/detail.html
KTVU News,
April 26
http://www.ktvu.com/health/3233948/detail.html
SD Academy Elections
City News Service, April 26-Two UC
San Diego professors were elected to the National Academy
of Sciences at the organization's annual meeting in Washington,
D.C. M. Brian Maple, a professor of physics,
and Charles S. Zuker, a professor of biology
and neurosciences, were among 72 new members and 18 foreign
associates elected.
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No link available online.
Risky Rip
Currents Lurk Under Calm Seas
Los Angeles Times, April 27-Placid-seeming
rip currents can flare like a temper, towing swimmers into the
depths. One man drowned at Huntington Beach two weeks ago, and
another man is missing off La Jolla and presumed dead, authorities
say. Swells shifting from north to south build sandbars that
cause rip currents. Sandbars channel water into river-like gushes,
sweeping people away from shore. (Quote by Jerome A.
Smith, an oceanographer at UC San Diego.)
http://www.latimes.com/features/outdoors/la-os-briefs27.1apr27,1,310678.story
Audience
Moved by 'Memories'
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 27-Landscape
painter George Inness was fascinated by the phenomenon of perception,
so it's fitting that Allyson Green's dance,
inspired by Inness' paintings, focused attention on how we perceive
dance by altering many of the things we take for granted about
a performance's structure and landscape. For "Memories
of an Exhibition," at the San Diego Museum of Art's Copley
Auditorium last weekend, Green, a professor
at UC San Diego, created four intimate and
unconventional performance spaces.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040427-9999-1c27green.html
It's Customers Last at
Wal-Mart
Newsday, Opinion, April 27- Wal-Mart
has gained a reputation for destroying small-town main streets
by putting other retailers out of business, and building sprawling
stores that generate traffic and pollution. As the company has
run out of small towns to invade, it has turned increasingly
to urban and dense suburban areas to expand. And, at least in
California, it has found how true it is that action generates
reaction. (Article written by David Karjanen,
a visiting postdoctoral scholar at the University of
California, San Diego.)
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpkar273774405apr27,0,3907966.story
Paperless Prescriptions
on Horizon
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 27-In
the next few years, many San Diego patients will likely see
their prescriptions transmitted directly from the doctor's office
to the pharmacy via computer, rather than handed to them on
hastily scribbled paper slips. For several months, the San Diego
Medical Society Foundation has been working to devise a way
for medical institutions to exchange patient information electronically
within five years. The foundation is working with the county
health department and the California Institute for Telecommunications
and Information Technology at the University of California
in San Diego and Irvine.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/health/20040427-9999-1b27rx.html
Fate of Kerry Medals Sparks
Political Fray
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April
27-Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry accused Republicans
on Monday of concocting a "phony controversy" over
his Vietnam war combat decorations and a 1971 demonstration
where he says he threw some of them away. (Quote by Gary
C. Jacobson, a political science professor at the University
of California, San Diego.)
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Cox News Service, April 26
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