A Sampling of Clips for April 16^th, 2008

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China Surpasses US as Top Carbon Polluter
North Korea Times, April 16 – China has already surpassed the United States as the world's largest carbon polluter, the authors of a California study said Tuesday. "Our best forecast has China's CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions correctly surpassing the United States in 2006 rather than 2020 as previously anticipated," said the study by researchers at the University of California. (Mentions UCSD economics professor Richard Carson) More

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Appendix Operation Through the Mouth
London Evening Standard, April 16 -- Surgeons have removed a man's appendix through his mouth in a radical world first.  The pioneering operation - dubbed "cakehole surgery" - means no unsightly scars, and the patient was doing sit-ups three days afterwards. Today, doctors released the first pictures of the bizarre-looking procedure on Jeff Scholz, which was undertaken using miniaturised surgical tools. (Mentions UCSD Medical Center) More

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U.S. Scientists to Study Arctic Smog
Christian Science Monitor, April 16 -- Despite its pristine image, the Arctic has a serious smog and soot problem. Scientists from three federal agencies are now engaged in the most ambitious effort yet to measure airborne pollutants in the Arctic and gauge their effect on the region's climate.  (Mentions Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

UC Expects Record-Breaking Freshman Class
KNSD, April 15 -- The University of California has accepted a record number of California residents as freshmen for the coming fall. This comes despite worries that cuts in state funding could lead to overcrowded campuses and tuition increases. UC officials say they accepted slightly more than 60,000 students, an increase of nearly 5 percent from last year. (Mentions UCSD) More

Forum to Discuss Plan on Health, Environment
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 16 -- The California Department of Toxic Substances Control will hold a public workshop at UCSD today on the state's Green Chemistry Initiative. The initiative will help establish a blueprint for keeping California at the forefront of health and the environment. At the workshop, the public can comment and discuss environmental protection.  More

Collaboration Key at Moss Landing Marine Lab
Santa Cruz Sentinel, April 16 -- Sunlight bathes the airy corridors of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories through elevated skylights, symbolizing the cooperative atmosphere that defines the lab's unique brand of ocean science research. "Everything here is about learning to collaborate," said Kyle Glenn, a first-year graduate student studying seaweed at the lab. "I never would have thought of using genetics to study seaweeds if I had been anyplace else." (Mentions Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

6 UCSD Students Among Those Displaced by Blaze
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 16 -- An electrical problem in the attic was the probable cause of a fire that damaged a University City four-plex Monday night, a fire official said yesterday. The fire at the building on Camino Tranquillo near Playmor Terrace displaced eight residents, including six UCSD students, said San Diego Fire-Rescue Department spokesman Maurice Luque. More

Surveying Ocean Sediment
Voice of San Diego, April 15 -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency scientists are heading offshore tomorrow to an ocean dumping site five miles off the Point Loma coast to sample the sediment on the seafloor to see whether pollution levels there are significant. It'll be the agency's first trip to the site since it was formally designated as a place to dump dredged sediment from San Diego Bay in 1991. (Mentions Ed Parnell professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

Neuralstem to Sponsor the National Veterans
Wheelchair Games, Hosted by the Paralyzed Veterans of America
KRNV, April 16 -- Stem cell company Neuralstem, Inc. has become a National sponsor of the National Veterans Wheelchair Games, the largest annual wheelchair sports competition of its kind in the world, co-presented by the Paralyzed Veterans of America (Paralyzed Veterans) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), in Omaha, Nebraska, July 25-29, 2008. (Mentions UCSD) More