A Sampling of Clips for
July 31 - August 02, 2004
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Studying
Global Climate Becomes a Father-Son Pastime
Los Angeles Times, Aug. 1-Charles
David Keeling, 76, pioneered the measurement of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere almost half a century ago on a Hawaiian
mountaintop. Decades later, his son, Ralph Keeling,
devised a way to gauge atmospheric oxygen, the other half of
the global respiratory cycle. With two lifetimes' work, mostly
at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
in San Diego, this innovative duo has given science a bedrock
for studying climate change, a foundation whose importance increases
as concern grows over rising temperatures, melting glaciers
and other effects of the buildup of "greenhouse gases,"
particularly carbon dioxide, CO2.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-adna-scientists1aug01,1,6910451.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
For a Few
Dollars More Never Mind Morality, Objectivity or Contextuality
Financial Times (London, England),
Opinion, July 31-Media critics and scholars have often urged
that journalism be more engaged, more civic-minded, more responsible.
Quality journalism does not get obsessed with events but gives
them context; it does not concentrate mindlessly and sensationally
on immediate conflict but offers explanatory background. How
can you disagree? How can I disagree with myself, having often
called for just such journalism? You can't - but you have to
acknowledge that, at least sometimes, journalism serves its
democratic obligations best by following its lower rather than
higher instincts. (Article written by Michael Schudson,
a professor of communications at the University of California,
San Diego.)
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For Researchers,
the Teeniest Fish is a Jumbo Find
Baltimore Sun, Aug. 2-Researchers
in California say they have discovered a new fish that's unlikely
to ever reach a dinner plate - it takes 500,000 to make a pound.
Measuring only a third of an inch or less, the stout infantfish
found off Australia's Great Barrier Reef is not only the world's
smallest fish, but the smallest creature ever discovered with
a backbone. Researchers at the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography and the National Marine Fisheries Service
in San Diego published their discovery in last month's issue
of Records of the Australian Museum, an Australian scientific
journal.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.ms.fish02aug02
,1,6360541.story
Francis
Crick
San Diego Union-Tribune, Editorial,
July 31-There are many great minds among the Nobelists and other
world-class scientists working atop Torrey Pines Mesa. Even
among them, Francis Crick was a man apart.
Crick, who continued to work until literally hours before his
death this week at the age of 88, was one of those who helped
turn Torrey Pines Mesa and San Diego into a Mecca for big science
and big thinkers.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040731/news_lz1ed31middle.html
Scientist,
Colleagues Cracked DNA Code, Won 1962 Nobel Prize
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 30-The
man who helped discover the secret of life is dead. Francis
Crick, who was 88, died about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday night
at Thornton Hospital in San Diego after a long battle with colon
cancer. Along with James Watson, Crick was best known for discovering
the structure of DNA - the mysterious molecule that defines
and determines every form of life.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/obituaries/20040730-9999-2m30crickobt.html
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article appeared in:
The Press (Christchurch, New Zealand),
July 31
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Mystery of Mind Occupied DNA Decoder
Crick
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 30-During
the final years of his life, Francis Crick
spent Friday afternoons in rarefied air, lunching with colleagues
at The Salk Institute in La Jolla and pondering the biggest
questions of science. With the Pacific Ocean spread out before
them, Crick considered another landscape that conceals its mysteries:
the biology of the brain that makes humans conscious beings.
Crick, who died Wednesday night after a three-year battle with
colon cancer, was most widely known for his 1953 discovery with
James Watson of the structure of DNA -- a feat that transformed
biology and earned Nobel Prizes for them and British colleague
Maurice Wilkins in 1962. (Quote by Jack Dixon,
dean of scientific affairs at UCSD Health Sciences.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040730/news_1m30crick.html
Leaders
Mobilizing to Smooth Out Traffic
Los Angeles Daily News, July 29-Southern
California's transportation leaders on Thursday identified the
region's top 10 "traffic busters" -- many of the same
freeway and public transit goals already in line for funding
-- that will be the focus of this year's advocacy efforts. (Quote
by Steve Erie, a professor of political science
at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257
E2303139,00.html?search=filter
Study Urges
New look at leg artery ailment
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 31-Physicians
who think their patients' peripheral artery disease has disappeared
because they no longer suffer leg pain may be wrong. A study
by UC San Diego and other researchers published
this week said the patients' disease still might exist and have
progressed, despite the absence of pain. (Quote by Michael
Criqui M.D., a professor of family and preventive medicine
at UC San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040728/news_1m28decline.html
UCSD Leader's
House to Cost $6,500 a Month
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 31-The
University of California will pay $156,000 over the next two
years to rent a La Jolla house for the incoming chancellor at
UC San Diego, Marye Anne Fox.
The home, at $6,500 in monthly rent, offers an ocean view, library,
three-car garage and sprawling garden. The property, about half
a mile southeast of La Jolla Cove, has a 9,430-square-foot lot.
Of course, as UCSD officials are quick to point
out, it's not nearly as nice as where the new chancellor was
supposed to live.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040731/news_1m31house.html
Engineering
Students Race in Homemade Submarines
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 31-They're
known as the human-powered submarine races, and to be a participant,
one has to be tri-talented: a bicyclist, a scuba diver and an
engineer. The University of California, San Diego's
8-foot-long "Inviscid," a scientific term that means
frictionless flow, finished only 0.05 mph behind the Canadian
craft in that race. (Quote by Rex Graham, a
public information representative at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/20040731-9999-1mc31subs.html
UC Faculty,
Staff Favor Kerry
Sacramento Bee, Aug. 1-Professors
aren't as rich as Goldman Sachs bankers. They don't have the
stock options of Microsoft programmers. But that hasn't stopped
the faculty and staff at the 10-campus University of California
system from giving more than any single employee group nationwide
to Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, according to
the latest campaign finance records. It's an unusual phenomenon
resulting from the vast size of the UC employee base, as well
as to what appears to be a growing distaste for President Bush
on elite college campuses. (Quote by Gary Jacobson,
a political science professor at UC San Diego.)
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/10214054p-11134569c.html
UCSD Center
Delves Into Computer Networks
San Diego Business Journal, Aug. 2-Take
a computer - even a high-powered supercomputer - and you have
a system. Connect it with other systems and your have a network.
Computer scientists who specialize in systems have one more
opportunity to talk shop with scientists who specialize in the
data networks that link them. Four private companies have committed
$9 million over three years to the Center for Networked Systems,
a joint project between UC San Diego and industry.
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/eclips/PDF/computer_networks.pdf
University
Applicants Breathe Easier After Budget Revisions
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 1-Although
California's public universities will shoulder hundreds of millions
of dollars in cuts under the budget signed yesterday, officials
note it could have been worse. Negotiations between the Legislature
and governor restored millions of dollars that will help open
access to thousands of eligible students at the University of
California and limit the number of qualified students shut out
at Cal State. At UC San Diego, 1,700 applicants
were offered the chance to attend after completing two years
at a community college. About 150 accepted that offer and will
now be allowed to enter UCSD in January.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20040801-9999-1n1colleges.html
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article appeared in:
Copley News Service, Aug. 1
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For Mexicans, Better Future on Horizon,
U.S. Official Says
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 31-"Mexico
and the Mexican people have reason to be optimistic about their
future" and the country needs "a burst of idealism,"
the U.S. assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere
Affairs said at the University of California, San Diego
yesterday. Roger Francisco Noriega said in an interview that
although President Vicente Fox has been unable to get major
reforms through Congress, where no party has a majority, the
economy is growing and Mexico is moving forward. Noriega yesterday
addressed the graduating class of the 16th Summer Seminar in
U.S. Studies at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at UCSD.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040731/news_1n31noriega.html
Tightened
Border in S.D. Shifts Strain to Areas East
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 1-In
the neighborhoods that line the border with Mexico, new developments
have sprouted and real estate prices are at an all-time high.
Housing tracts and a shopping center have gone up in the fields
west of the San Ysidro border crossing, where immigrant smugglers
once parked their cars to await their cargo. Ocean-view homes
sit on a ridge near Otay Mesa where large groups of migrants
once scrambled through the brush. (Quote by Wayne Cornelius,
director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at
the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040801-9999-1n1econ.html
Making it
Count
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 2-Since
some health and fitness experts claim that weight management
and health benefits can be achieved by walking 10,000 steps
a day (roughly five miles), many folks are keeping track of
their tracks with ever-clicking pedometers clipped to their
waistbands. (Quote by Kevin Patrick M.D., a
family and preventive medicine physician at UCSD
Healthcare.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040802-9999-mz1c2pedfit.html
Searching
for the Political Unconvention
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 1-For
decades, Democratic and Republican presidential nominating conventions
have been devolving from living, breathing events into stuffed,
puffed-up facsimiles. The rap on past conventions was that the
real decisions were hidden from view, made in smoke-filled rooms.
What has changed? The new camouflage is the controlled staging
that uses heart-tugging anecdotes, glitzy multimedia shows,
and "ordinary" people pushed forward as props to disguise
intraparty rifts - to, say, sell Republican compassionate conservatism
when the intent is anything but compassionate or conservative;
or to sell Democratic rage, however justified, as feel-good
patriotism. (Quote by Michael Schudson, a professor
of communications at UC San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/louv/20040801-9999-mz1e1louv.html
Taking the
Pulse of Innovations in Hospital Care
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 1-The
hospital rooms of the future will have one bed rather than two
so patients don't infect each other with hard-to-kill germs.
They will have bedside computers so physicians' orders for tests
and drugs will be clearly typed rather than sloppily penned,
and potentially be misinterpreted. These and many other evolving
strategies for safer, more efficient hospital care were touted
here yesterday during the Palomar Pomerado Health district's
"Hospital of the Future" symposium, where part of
the agenda was how best to design a new Palomar Medical Center
for Escondido. In San Diego, officials at UCSD
Medical Center have concluded that replacing its Hillcrest facility
would be more cost-effective than retrofitting and remodeling
it.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20040801-9999-1mi1future.html
Gay Parade
Struts with Playful Pride
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 1-Tens
of thousands of cheering people lined up along University Avenue
yesterday, to watch the 30th annual gay pride parade in Hillcrest.
Marriage was a common theme throughout the parade, a major event
of the yearly San Diego Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender
Pride festival. The issue of same-sex marriages, with this year's
developments in San Francisco and Massachusetts and a possible
constitutional amendment to ban those unions, has often been
front-page news nationally. (Quote by Brian Schaefer,
a student at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040801-9999-1m1pride.html
Newest Hotel
in the Jewel Opens Up Across Street from UCSD
La Jolla Light, July 29-Estancia La
Jolla Hotel & Spa across from UCSD's Eleanor
Roosevelt College is a resort with a difference, according to
the $60 million destination facility's public relations manager,
Carlyn Shaw. Managed by Destination Hotels & Resorts, Estancia
opened the end of June. The finishing touches are now being
put on the spa complex, which is scheduled to open Aug. 2.
http://www.lajollalight.com/2004/07/29/b040729newest_hotel.html
Small Venues
Produce Big Surprises
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 1-UCSD
classics professor Marianne McDonald premieres
a wild adaptation of "Alcestis" as "The Ally
Way" tonight at 6th@Penn, which also served as resident
home for Grass Roots Greeks (GRG). Since the terrorist attacks
of 2001, GRG has read or staged every extant Greek play at the
Hillcrest storefront.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040801-9999-1a1welsh.html
New University
Plans '05 Start
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 30-A
proposed religious-based university aims to cleanse the business
world of sin, one student at a time. Founders of the New Catholic
University filed this month for the necessary state approval
and hope to open in North County by fall 2005. The proposed
university's founder, Derry Connolly who holds a Ph.D. in applied
mechanics from the California Institute of Technology, was associate
dean of continuing education at the University of California
San Diego's extension program for the past three years.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20040730-9999-1mc30cath.html
