A Sampling of Clips for April 28^th, 2008

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Surfers Enter Solana Beach Waters Despite Deadly Shark Attack
MSNBC, April 26 -- Some surfers entered the waters at Solana Beach Saturday despite closures prompted by a deadly shark attack. Because of the form of the attack and the victim's wounds, the shark was almost certainly a great white, according to Professor Richard Rosenblatt, a shark expert at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.  More

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Down With Carbon
Science, April 24 -- At dozens of remote sites, instruments sniff the air, adding measurements of atmospheric chemistry to a dataset that stretches back more than 50 years. The nearly continuous record results from one of the longest-running, most comprehensive earth science experiments in history, says Ralph F. Keeling, a climate scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He carries on the effort his father, Charles Keeling, began as a graduate student in the 1950s. More

Elderly More Likely to Battle Sleep Disorders
The Washington Post, April 27 -- While sleep patterns do change as people age, disturbed sleep and waking up tired every day aren't a normal part of aging. "Older people have a hard time getting the sleep they need because of the interference of medical illness, the medications they take for those illnesses, and changes in their biological clock," Sonia Ancoli-Israel, a professor of psychiatry at the UCSD School of Medicine and director of the sleep disorders clinic at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, said in a prepared statement. More

The Case for Ending Interest Rate Cuts
CNBC, April 27 – If the U.S. Federal Reserve wants to restrain oil and food prices and help downtrodden consumers, the best thing it can do is stop cutting interest rates. That is the view emerging on Wall Street, among some economists, and even a handful of Fed officials who worry that the world economy is getting only limited benefit from deep rate cuts, but all of the unwanted side effects. (Quotes UCSD professor James Hamilton) More

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Don't Compromise the Safety of Biotech Drugs
Los Angeles Times, Opinion, April 28 -- Biologics are today's most advanced medicines, fully tested biotechnology protein drugs that provide targeted therapy to victims of cancer and other diseases. Follow-on biologics are the second or subsequent versions, but they are not identical. (Written by Bryan A. Liang, executive director of the Institute of Health Law Studies, California Western School of Law and co-director of the San Diego Center for Patient Safety, UCSD School of Medicine) More

Kelley: How Many 'Googlegängers' Can You Discover?
Ventura County Star, April 28 -- It used to be common practice among traveling salespeople and frequent fliers to check out the local phone book for one's appellation. Searching out people who share one's moniker is much more productive, these days, with access to the World Wide Web. The au courant phrase for one's name twin is "Googlegänger" — a term of unknown authorship that won the American Dialect Society's award as 2007's "most creative word." (Mentions a study co-authored by UCSD researcher Leif Nelson) More

Researchers of Geriatrics Receive $2 Million Grant
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 28 -- UCSD geriatric medical researchers have been awarded a $2 million grant to study the process of aging and discover new ways of minimizing its effects. More

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UCSD to Lower Its SDG&E Bills, Energize Renewable Resource Plan
San Diego Business Journal, April 28 -- As part of its effort to promote renewable energy, UCSD will gradually reduce the amount of electricity it purchases from San Diego Gas & Electric Co. and replace it with “green” power produced from fuel cells and solar sources on campus. More