A Sampling of Clips for
April 8 -9, 2003
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It's tough being an obese
kid
USA Today, Apr. 9 – Very obese
children are far more miserable than normal-weight kids, according
to a new University of California, San Diego
study published today in the Journal of the American Medical
Association. In fact, these kids rate their quality of life
about the same as kids with cancer do, said Jeffrey
Schwimmer, assistant professor of pediatrics at UCSD,
who led the study. Parents, teachers and others have known for
years that chubby children are often teased by their peers and
have low self-esteem, but this study is one of the first to
quantify how bad they really feel about themselves and their
lives.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2003-04-08-obese-kids-study_x.htm
Similar articles appeared
in:
Washington
Post, Apr. 9
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59342-2003Apr8.html
San Francisco Chronicle,
Apr. 9
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/09/MN231573.DTL
Agence France Presse,
Apr. 8
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The Dia
Generation
New York Times, Apr. 6 – Next
month, a former factory in a small town an hour north of New
York will become the first museum dedicated to the greatest
generation of American artists. (Mentions University
of California, San Diego emeritus professors of visual
arts Allan Kaprow, David and
Eleanor Antin and Helen and
Newton Harrison).
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Trauma Medicine:
Stepchild No More
New York Times, Apr. 8 – Despite
huge advances in medicine and technology, trauma care has, in
many ways, been stuck in the past century, medical experts say.
One reason trauma research has languished is that the Defense
Department, the institution with perhaps the biggest interest
in improving care for sudden, serious injuries, was long prohibited
by law from participating in most clinical research in trauma
or financing it. (Quotes Dr. David Hoyt, trauma
surgeon of the University of California, San Diego).
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San Diego's
Growing Biotech Colony
New York Times, Apr. 9 – A sprawling
office and laboratory complex inspired by Italian hill towns
is the latest outcropping of biotechnology-related construction
that has covered much of the rolling green hills and ravines
in San Diego. In February, IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corporation
broke ground on a 350,000-square-foot complex just east of the
University of California, San Diego in an area
known as University Town Center. The complex, arranged in the
form of two crescent-shaped rows of buildings on either side
of a shallow ravine, is expected to be completed in the fall
of 2004.
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Passings;
Allen Lein, 89; Professor, Women's Health Expert
Los Angeles Times, Apr. 9 –
Allen Lein, 89, a founding faculty member of
the University of California, San Diego School
of Medicine and an expert on female reproductive health, died
March 26 of heart failure in Austin, Texas. At UCSD,
Lein taught, performed research, and was associate
dean for graduate studies and for academic affairs.
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Similar article appeared
in:
San
Diego Union-Tribune, Apr. 9
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/metro/news_1m9lein.html
Study Faults
Crime Reports at UC
Los Angeles Times, Apr. 9 –
The University of California, in violation of federal law, failed
to report certain crimes, including sexual assaults, on its
campuses in the late 1990s and 2000, according to an extensive
review of the system's practices by the U.S. Department of Education.
The report, issued last week, said the UC system has since changed
its crime-reporting practices and is now in compliance with
federal requirements. Education Department officials in June
2002 visited three UC campuses -- UC Davis, UCLA and University
of California, San Diego -- to study campus security
regulations. All were found to be in compliance, the report
said.
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NASA Complacency,
Missteps Cited
Los Angeles Times, Apr. 9 –
NASA had come to accept foam debris falling off the external
tank and striking the space shuttle during launches, even though
the agency had originally considered such impacts a safety risk,
Columbia accident investigators said Tuesday. The complacency
about the foam debris incidents has striking similarities to
the space agency's behavior before the Challenger accident in
1986, when it knew there were serious defects with the solid
rocket motors but failed to address them. (Quotes Sally
Ride, University of California, San Diego
professor and a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation
Board).
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Foreign
policy weighs heavily on refugees' entry to U.S.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Apr.
9 – If war in Iraq triggers the wave of refugees humanitarian
groups are bracing for, the United States may open its doors
to a small number of Iraqis fleeing the fighting and its aftermath.
The federal government traditionally resettles refugees facing
persecution at the hands of its enemies, a pattern that unfolded
after military interventions in Vietnam, Iraq, Somalia and Bosnia.
The tradition demonstrates that the United States exercises
a selective compassion in deciding which refugees to shelter.
(Quotes Idean Salehyan of the Center for Comparative
Immigration Studies at the University of California,
San Diego).
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Quality
Gulf War television coverage is lacking in the US
Canberra Times (Australia), OPINION,
Apr. 9 – Clive Williams, director of
terrorism studies at the Strategic and Defense Studies Center
of the Australian National University and a visiting professor
at the University of California, San Diego
discusses the lack of quality programming concerning the coverage
of the war. Williams teaches a Spring Quarter
Masters program in Terrorism at UCSD.
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After shingles
for some victims, pain lingers for years
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Apr. 8 –
For some, chronic skin pain is the devastating aftermath of
shingles, a rash triggered by reactivated chickenpox virus lying
dormant in the body. Shingles affects an estimated 1 million
Americans annually. Most people completely recover from shingles
in three to five weeks. But with age, the likelihood increases
that a person will suffer from chronic pain for months or even
years afterward -- a condition called post-herpetic neuralgia.
(Quotes Dr. Michael N. Oxman, professor of
medicine and pathology at the University of California,
San Diego).
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Chairman
of Science Applications International Reveals Plans to Step
Down
San Diego Union-Tribune, Apr. 9 –
J. Robert Beyster, who built a scientific consulting firm in
La Jolla into a $ 6 billion global conglomerate known as SAIC,
revealed yesterday that he plans to step down as chairman and
chief executive. Under a plan approved by SAIC's board Monday,
a five-member search committee was established to oversee the
transition to a new chairman and CEO. (Quotes University
of California, San Diego Associate Vice Chancellor
Mary Walshok and Robert Conn,
who worked with Beyster and SAIC for more than a decade as dean
of the Jacobs School of Engineering at the UCSD).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/business/news_1b9beyster.html
Age-old
question
San Diego Union-Tribune, Apr. 9 –
Americans are living longer than ever. At age 65, the average
American can expect to see at least one more generation mature.
According to IRS mortality tables, there's a 5 percent chance
he or she will even reach 100. (Quotes University of
California, San Diego Dr. Dilip Jeste,
chief of geriatric psychiatry, Dr. Dennis Carson,
director of the Stein Institute for Research on Aging, Dr. Joe
Ramsdell, head of division of internal medicine and
geriatrics, Dr. Elizabeth Barrett-Connor of
Family and Preventive Medicine program, and Dr. Mark
Tuszynski, a neurologist and neuroscientist).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20030409-9999_mz1c9aged.html
5 arrested
outside federal courthouse
San Diego Union-Tribune, Apr. 8 –
Five people protesting the war in Iraq were arrested Monday
outside the federal courthouse in downtown San Diego after they
ignored requests to disperse. They were part of a group of about
15 people protesting the war, saying it is unjust, unprovoked
and illegal. There were no arrests at two other war protests
yesterday, one on the University of California, San
Diego campus and the other at Qualcomm headquarters
in Sorrento Valley. At UCSD, students dressed
in black stood solemnly, some holding signs protesting the war
in Iraq.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/iraq/homefront/20030408-9999_1m8protest.html
