A Sampling of Clips for
April 24, 2003
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Media combine
in kids' minds
San Jose Mercury News, Apr. 24 –
For more than a decade, the consumer electronics and technology
industries have awaited the collision of media that would bring
television, the computer, the video game console, and the stereo
into one tidy convergence box. As today’s generation of
digital kids mature, expectations are bound to transform entertainment.
Family-focused entertainment giants like Walt Disney have worked
hard to reinforce this notion. A single film like "Lilo
and Stitch" is not just an animated film to be viewed in
the theater, but an interactive entertainment experience that
includes a CD soundtrack, a DVD home movie and an Interactive
Web site. (Quotes Sheldon Brown, director of
the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts at the University
of California, San Diego).
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/5704770.htm
Pentagon
funds sleep deprivation studies
HealthCentral.com, Apr. 24 –
While some people can function on little sleep, others feel
exhausted if they don't get a full night of slumber. The U.S.
Department of Defense is supporting two University of
California, San Diego School of Medicine studies to
research the phenomenon. "The idea is to see if there are
baseline differences in brain function due to habitual sleep
times and to see if one group or the other is less vulnerable
to the effects of sleep loss. We have seen some informal evidence
of differential responses in people, but there hasn't been a
formal study to evaluate these differences," Sean
P.A. Drummond, UCSD assistant professor
of psychiatry, says in a news release.
http://www.healthcentral.com/news/NewsFullText.cfm?id=512622
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drkoop.com,
Apr. 24
SAIC wins
$8 million passive sonar work
Washington Technology, Apr. 22 –
A team led by Science Applications International Corp., San
Diego, has been awarded $8.3 million by the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency to develop a prototype of a passive
sonar. SAIC's ocean sciences division, part of the company's
technology research group, will lead the work, which is estimated
to take 21 months. Team members include the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Metron Inc., UCSD's Scripps
Institution of Oceanography and Verizon Communications Inc.'s
BBN Technologies.
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/20600-1.html
'By-the-wind
sailor' jellyfish back in port
San Diego Union-Tribune, Apr. 23 –
A blue-hued jellyfish that normally lives far offshore has been
turning up this week on beaches in San Diego County. The jellyfish,
known as the by-the-wind sailor (Velella velella), is being
blown ashore by sustained onshore winds, said Bob Burhans,
a curator of fishes at the University of California,
San Diego’s Stephen Birch Aquarium in La Jolla.
"As soon as the winds die down, we won't see them,"
Burhans said. "They are usually found
hundreds of miles offshore."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20030423-9999_1m23jelly.html
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KFMB,
CA, Apr. 23
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Mexico revisits
effort to get amnesty for 4 million here
Copley News Service, Apr. 24 –
Mexico renewed its call for the United States to grant amnesty
to some 4 million undocumented Mexicans inside U.S. territory,
this time arguing that U.S. security is at stake. The message
was delivered Wednesday by Mexico's interior minister, Santiago
Creel, who is meeting in San Diego with U.S. Homeland Security
Chief Tom Ridge to talk about border security. (Quotes Erik
Lee, assistant director at the Center for U.S.-Mexican
Studies at the University of California San Diego).
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