A Sampling of Clips for
April 28, 2005
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Key Player in Inflammation
Found
ABC News, April 27-A protein called
IKKa shuts down inflammation following an immune response to
invading pathogens, say researchers at the UCSD
School of Medicine. More
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articles appeared in:
News-Medical
Net, April 28
Forbes,
April 27
News Briefs
from San Diego County
Contra Costa Times, April 28-A former
UCSD chancellor has asked that the university's
newest undergraduate college not be named for him, citing student
and community opposition to the naming process. More
Similar
articles appeared in:
San
Jose Mercury, April 28
NBC
San Diego, April 28
Quake in
Lake Could Cause 30-Foot Tsunami
San Francisco Chronicle, April 28-Major
quakes on seismic faults that run beneath Lake Tahoe have ruptured
the earth's crust there roughly every 3,000 years or so, and
scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
are trying to determine just when the last big one hit. More
How to Fix
the Initiative Process
San Francisco Chronicle, Editorial,
April 28-Californians may complain about the length of their
ballots, but their devotion to the initiative process is rock
solid. (Quote by Mathew McCubbins, a UCSD
political science professor.) More
Intelligent
Design: Who has
Designs on your Students' Minds?
Nature, April 27-The intelligent-design
movement is a small but growing force on US university campuses.
Since the first Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness club
began at UCSD in 1999, more than 20 chapters
have opened on college campuses around the country. More
Why Majorities
Matter
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion,
April 27-After stunning City Hall with the unexpected announcement
of his resignation Monday, Mayor Dick Murphy offered up an equally
surprising explanation: "I now believe to be effective
the city will need a mayor who was elected by a majority of
the people." (Article written by Thad Kousser,
an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science
at UCSD.) More
