A Sampling of Clips for April 15^th, 2009

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Spiraling Nuclear Danger Undercuts
Tough-Talking Strategy with North Korea
Los Angeles Times, April 15 -- Spiraling tensions over North Korea's nuclear program are undercutting dialogue as a strategy to allay global threats. Nor is unity among both North Korea's friends and foes in confronting Pyongyang turning out to be a significant pressure tactic. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Susan Shirk) More

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National Wildlife Federation Announces Its 'Chill Out' Contest Winners
Chronicle of Higher Education, April 15 -- The National Wildlife Federation has announced its annual Chill Out awards, which recognize various institutions for their efforts to reduce energy use and emissions. Longwood University and UCSD won awards for videos that highlight sustainability efforts on campus. More

The Mind-Body Problem
Scientific American, April 14 -- Bizarre conditions—named body integrity and identity disorder and supernumerary phantom limb, respectively—are now believed to have a neurological basis, and a growing body of literature suggests that such body awareness disorders occur as a result of abnormal activity in the right superior parietal lobule. (Mentions research by Paul McGeoch and colleagues at The Brain and Perceptual Process Laboratory UCSD) More

A New Leader Adapts a Course Already Taken
The New York Times, April 13 -- New York City Opera, on hiatus from its principal business while its home is being renovated, has been sending its orchestra, chorus and soloists around New York to perform concerts under the series title Looking Forward. (Mentions UCSD pianist Aleck Karis) More

Jason and the Argonauts
Return for New Mission
China Daily, April 15 -- In 2000, aerologists and oceanographers from several nations, including China, Japan and the United States, launched a major quest to revolutionize the way scientists forecast climate change. Project ARGO involves satellite-tracked floats that measure the temperature and salinity of the upper 2,000 m of an ocean, generating profiles of the world's seas never before thought possible.  (Quotes Dean Roemmich, a physical oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California and co-chairman of the ARGO program steering team) More

Obama Picks Bersin to Serve as Border Czar
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 15 -- Alan Bersin, whose career in San Diego has included turns as U.S. attorney, school superintendent and airport board chairman, has been selected to fill a newly created position of U.S. border czar, an Obama administration official confirmed yesterday. (Quotes Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UCSD) More

Most Injection Drug Users
in Tijuana Have Tuberculosis
KPBS, April 15 -- A new study from UCSD reveals two-thirds of IV drug users in Tijuana test positive for tuberculosis. People who shoot drugs are also at high risk for HIV infection. More

Tapping a Connection
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 14 -- La Jolla Playhouse on the UCSD campus has tapped a veteran producer from artistic director Christopher Ashley's extended creative family to become the theater's managing director. More

Henry Moore Foundation to Showcase
Public Art Proposals That Never Made It
UTV, April 14 -- From 1983 until funding was lost in 2004 the Public Art Development Trust organized art competitions, brokered deals between artists and developers, and commissioned work in an attempt to create more inspiring public art than stone generals and draped bronze maidens. (Mentions UCSD Visual Arts professor Anya Gallacio.) More

Police Seek Tips Finding
Man Who Grabs Women
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 14 -- Police are asking the public's help in finding a man who grabs women and exposes himself in University City and on the UCSD campus. The man has been linked to at least 10 incidents that began in May and started again in March in the area of Regents Road and Arriba Street in University City. More

Green UCSD
San Diego Daily Transcript, April 14 -- UCSD is celebrating Earth Week, April 20-25, with 20 "Extreme Green" events, ranging from a trash sort and a green job fair to an eco-friendly fashion show. More

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