A Sampling of Clips for 
April 16, 2003

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Natural science at a loss
USA Today, Apr. 16 – Planned cutbacks in museum and science collections across the nation threaten the preservation of the natural sciences, researchers say. As state funding is scaled back from California to Virginia, researchers in the natural sciences -- those who dig up dinosaurs, identify insect pests and monitor threatened species -- increasingly worry about the loss of collections that are the intellectual storehouses of many disciplines. (Quotes geophysicist John Orcutt of Scripps Institution of Oceanography).
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Fat chance in life
Omaha World Herald (Nebraska), Apr. 15 – Obese children rate their quality of life and happiness as significantly poorer than their peers in all areas examined by a new study including psychosocial, emotional, social and educational parameters. These kids' experience of their quality of life is slightly below that of children undergoing chemotherapy, according to the research conducted by Jeffrey B. Schwimmer, a pediatrician at the University of California, San Diego. Even with more and more adults and children tipping the scales of obesity, the condition retains a social stigma.
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=608&u_sid=713159

Connecting the dogs of war
Canberra Times (Australia), OPINION, Apr. 16 – Clive Williams, director of terrorism studies at the Strategic and Defence Studies Center of the ANU and a visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego discusses the Bush Administration’s defense industry. Williams teaches a Spring Quarter Masters program in terrorism at UCSD.
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