UCSD News

A Sampling of Clips for
April 30 ^th, 2007

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Chavez and Big Oil Gear Up for Struggle
MSNBC, April 29 -- Forcing Big Oil to give up control of Venezuela's most promising oil fields this week will be relatively easy for President Hugo Chavez, but he will face a more delicate challenge in getting the world's top oil companies to stay and keep investing. (Quotes UCSD political scientist David Mares) More

Democratic Hopefuls in Calif.
to Woo State's Power Brokers
San Francisco Chronicle, April 27 -- Democratic presidential candidates will pursue delegates and political dollars at a state party convention this weekend that amounts to an unofficial kickoff of the 2008 race in California. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Samuel Popkin) More

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Lazy, Job-Stealing Immigrants?
The Washington Post, Opinion, April 30 -- President Bush is doing his pragmatic best to secure immigration reform. He is honorably laboring to revive some version of the bipartisan bill that got 62 votes in the Senate last year. But watching this torturous process is enough to make a sane person scream. The livelihoods of millions are at stake, yet most immigration pronouncements are nonsense. (Quotes UCSD economist Gordon Hanson) More

Think You Need a Breath of Fresh Oxygen?
Los Angeles Times, April 30 -- Oxygen is one of those non-negotiable items in life. You can skimp on food, sunlight and, in emergency situations, morning coffee, but you can't last more than a couple of minutes without oxygen. The vital gas makes up about 20% of the air we breathe. (Quotes Dr. Peter Wagner, professor of Medicine and Bioengineering at UCSD) More

Gore's Guru Disagreed
Financial Post, Canada, April 28 -- In the history of the global-warming movement, no scientist is more revered than Roger Revelle of UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Harvard University. More

Collapse an Opportunity to Reassess Bridge Safety
Contra Costa Times, April 30 -- Burning down a freeway is not easy. But set off enough high-octane fuel at the wrong place and even multi-ton supporting steel girders turn wobbly as a chocolate bar in the sun. That is what a speeding gasoline trucker managed to do before dawn Sunday to the busiest interchange in Northern California. (Quotes Forman Williams, a pre-eminent combustion expert at UCSD) More

Big kids on Campus Before They Arrive
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 30 -- Students who have worked diligently for years to get into college now sit back and weigh their options. Meanwhile, campus officials kick into high gear to lure the best and most diverse freshmen. (Mentions UCSD) More

Talking Till You're 'Green' in the Face
North County Times, Opinion, April 29 -- Right now, the best way to combat global warming is to take political action. This can be done if the United States follows what California has already done when it passed Assembly Bill 32, which placed a cap on global warming emissions in the state. (Co-authored by Kim Griest, Ph.D., a professor of astrophysics in the Physics Department at UCSD) More

'Perfect Storm' Brewing for San Diego's Water Supply
Voice of San Diego, April 30 -- San Diego's two largest water sources -- the Colorado River and the Sierra Nevada range -- are at their lowest levels in decades, raising concerns that the arid region may face water shortages as soon as next year. (Quotes Dan Cayan, director of the Climate Research Division at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

Skin Condition Takes Center Stage
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 30 -- Rady Children's Hospital in Kearny Mesa, long recognized for its expertise in skin problems, is developing what its officials say is the nation's first comprehensive center for eczema. (Quotes Dr. Richard Gallo, a UCSD dermatology researcher) More

Dollar Falls to Record Low Against Euro
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 28 -- A slowdown in the U.S. economy pushed the dollar to an all-time low against the euro yesterday, a new milestone in a steep decline that began more than six years ago. (Quotes UCSD economist Ross Starr) More

The Dredge Dance: Workers Scoop Sand from Oceanside Harbor
North County Times, April 30 -- The Megan-Renee, whose home port is Portland, Ore., has worked since April 2 to deepen the basin for more than 1,000 private pleasure boats, commercial fishing boats and much larger ships used by Camp Pendleton and the U.S. Coast Guard. (Quotes Bob Guza, an oceanographer with UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More