A Sampling of Clips for
April 29, 2005
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Experts:
New Data Show Global Warming
Los Angeles Times, April 28-Climate
scientists lead by James Hansen, a prominent NASA climatologist,
have found that Earth is absorbing much more heat than it is
giving off, a conclusion they say validates projections of global
warming. (Refers to research conducted by the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography.) More
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Herald, April 29
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Herald, April 28
Contra
Costa Times, April 28
Stem-Cell
Showcase Full of Intrigue
San Francisco Chronicle, April 29-The
race to become home to California's new stem-cell institute
has been marked by political jockeying, illusory proposals,
civic sniping and open jealousy. (Mentions UCSD.)
More
Librarians
Worry Important Information is Being Lost
Chicago Tribune, April 29-The Government
Printing Office prints some of the nation's best-known publications:
the Congressional Record, the Ronald Reagan funeral condolence
books, the U.S. budget, the Sept. 11 commission report--even
your passport. (Quote by Jim Jacobs, data services
librarian at UCSD.) More
Five at
UCSD Named Fellows
of American Academy of Arts & Sciences
San Diego Daily Transcript, April
28-The American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS) announced
Thursday that five faculty members at UCSD
were named fellows of the academy. More
Awards and
Appointments
San Diego Metropolitan, April 29-Hui
Cai, a senior scientist at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical
Research and Development in La Jolla, has been named recipient
of the 2005 DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary - Athena FlexMBA Scholarship.
The Rady School of Management at UCSD announced
the recipient. (Quote by Robert S. Sullivan,
dean of UCSD's Rady School.) More
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article appeared in:
San
Diego Transcript, April 29
The Murphy
Resignation: The Failure of Governance
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion,
April 29-Once lauded as among the nation's best governed cities,
San Diego now has the unenviable reputation of being among the
worst governed. (Article co-written by Steve Erie,
a professor of political science at UCSD.)
More
UC Decides
to Try Selling Historic Chancellor's House
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 29-The
University of California has decided to sell the historic UCSD
chancellor's house of La Jolla Farms. Now comes the more complicated
part: finding a buyer for a 50-plus-year-old house that is riddled
with problems, from structural and seismic code deficiencies
to mold. More
