A Sampling of Clips for 
April 12 ^th, 2007

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Study Reveals
'Robin Hood Impulse'
CNN, April 12 -- People taking part in a game designed to explore egalitarian impulses in human nature consistently robbed from players assigned the most money while giving money to those with the least, scientists said Wednesday. James Fowler, a UCSD political scientist, and his fellow researchers detected what they saw as a "Robin Hood impulse" in people who took part in the experiment, described in the journal Nature. More

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A Grim Near Future: How Climate
Change Could Affect San Diego
KPBS, April 12 – Q&A with Tim Barnett and Lynne Talley, researchers at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The world's top scientists say the planet faces horrific changes unless nations adapt to climate change and stop its progress. The dire predictions in the final Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC report, paint a world grappling with hunger, water shortages, species extinction, severe storms, and rising sea levels. All from global warming caused by human-induced carbon dioxide pollution. More

Aguirre's 'Green' Effort Questioned
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 12 -- On Tuesday afternoon, Mayor Jerry Sanders announced that after a year of research and networking, he was rolling out his Clean Technology Initiative. Jim Waring, the city's chief of land use and economic development, has worked to forge a partnership with UCSD and the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. to create a cluster of clean-technology businesses in the city. (Also quotes Tony Haymet, director of UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

Fire Breaks Out in UC San Diego Laboratory
North County Times, April 12 -- A non-injury fire broke out Wednesday in a laboratory at a UCSD School of Medicine building, authorities said. The blaze, reported at 8:11 a.m. on the fourth floor at 9500 Gilman Drive, was extinguished buy an overhead sprinkler system, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. More

McAnuff Leaves Lasting
Legacy, 'Wozzeck' in his Wake
North County Times, April 12 -- One day after the lights go up on San Diego Opera's "Wozzeck" this Saturday, the local theater community's lights will dim. That's because on Sunday, "Wozzeck's" director, Des McAnuff, will take his star wattage and leave San Diego -- and the institution he has run for nearly 20 years, the La Jolla Playhouse, on the UCSD campus -- to return to his childhood home of Canada. More

Sorting Mixed Signals
on World Parkinson's Day
Economic Times, India, April 12 -- The researchers at UCSD’s San Diego Supercomputer Center and University of California have created a model for the complex process involving a protein known as alpha-synuclein, which supposedly leads to harmful pore-like structures in human membranes, the very kind of damage found in Parkinson’s and Alzeimer’s patients. More