A Sampling of Clips for 
April 5 ^th, 2007

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The Remastered Race
Wired News, April 5 -- This summer's biotech grudge match will be over designer babies. Two new books are framing the debate. In "Our Posthuman Future," heavyweight social and political theorist Francis Fukuyama warns of "class war" and the eventual obliteration of what it means to be human - all as a direct consequence of genetic fiddling. It comes out April 10. The very next day, Gregory Stock's "Redesigning Humans" will hit stores. (Quotes Theodore Friedmann, a pediatrics professor at UCSD) More

Get Ready for Debate About Who Lost Iraq
San Francisco Chronicle, April 5 -- The highly partisan question "Who lost Iraq?" will be heard repeatedly in the coming months, historians and political scientists say, as President Bush and a Democratic Congress spar over ending an unpopular war now in its fifth year. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Gary Jacobson) More

Making a Case
for Open Immigration
The Vail Trail, Colorado, Opinion, April 4 --There are plenty of threats to the American empire, but immigration is not among them. On the contrary, the fact that we are so successful in the global competition for labor is one of our greatest strengths. (Written by Professor Wayne A. Cornelius, a leading authority on Mexican migration to the U.S. and founder of UCSD’s Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies) More

USD Crew to the Rescue
at Cal Cup Grand Final
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 5 -- The UCSD Tritons found they needed one more pair of oars to compete in Sunday's Cal Cup grand final. They had loaned what they thought was an extra set to their women's team. When it was time to compete, the women rowers were too far away. So the USD Toreros, beaten the day before, came to UCSD's rescue, enabling the Tritons to row to their first Cal Cup victory. More

Breast-Feeding Campaign
Sparks Debate in Maternity Wards
NBC San Diego, April 5 -- The controversy over whether women should breast feed is creating a new debate in local maternity wards, NBC 7/39 reported. It's due to the so-called "goody bags" that hospitals send home with new mothers. Scripps Encinitas and the UCSD Medical Center have received the "baby-friendly" designation by the World Health Organization and UNICEF partly because they have stopped giving out formula. But the majority of hospitals are still including the packages in the goody bags, NBC 7/39 reported. More

For Immigrants, Military
Plows Path to Citizenship
Voice of San Diego, April 5 -- More than 40,000 non-citizens serve in the military. As the Pentagon has struggled with recruiting in the face of the unpopular Iraq War, it has added incentives such as easier paths to citizenship to help attract new members. The immigrants reaping those rewards were on full display for nearly 150 people Wednesday. (Quotes George Mariscal, a professor of Chicano studies at UCSD) More