A Sampling of Clips for 
August 08, 2003

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Moving to the Head of the Class
San Diego Business Journal, Aug. 4-On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Robert Dynes worked in his physics lab at the University of California, San Diego. The expert on semiconductors and superconductors continued his research even after taking over as UCSD chancellor seven years ago. Now, he's preparing for an even bigger challenge.
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UCSD Viewed as Biotech Incubator
San Diego Business Journal, Aug. 4- Torrey Pines Mesa holds the world's highest concentration of biotech researchers per square foot, local experts say. The University of California, San Diego has contributed greatly to that statistic and to the city's thriving biotech sector. University officials estimate that close to 200 San Diego companies are direct spin-offs of UCSD faculty, alumni, and students.
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UCSD names Marsha Chandler acting chancellor
La Jolla Light, Aug. 7-University of California President Richard Atkinson, acting in consultation with President-designate Robert Dynes, announced last week his intention to appoint Marsha Chandler as acting chancellor of UCSD, pending approval by the Board
http://www.lajollalight.com/2003/08/07/n030807chandler_chancellor.html

A slot for science
The Scientist, Aug. 8- Roger Bingham, a researcher at the University of California, San Diego and his wife Linda, both fans of science and C-SPAN, have put together a brief position paper describing the possible content of a 24-hour-a-day television network that would provide the kind of access to in-depth science information and discussion that C-SPAN's three channels collectively provide for politics.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20030808/03

UCSD plans for new machine shop rile neighbors
La Jolla Light, Aug. 7- A debate between home owners in La Jolla Shores Heights and the gated Montoro subdivision and UCSD over the school's plan to develop a 10,000-square-foot machine shop in Seaweed Canyon has all the earmarks of an epic battle.
http://www.lajollalight.com/2003/08/07/n030807machine_shop.html

Gene Transfer Reduces Levels of Key Alzheimer's Disease Protein
Advance News Magazine, Aug. 8- A molecule that naturally degrades a protein linked to Alzheimer's disease appears to reduce the levels of that protein by nearly 50 percent when delivered by gene therapy, researchers at the Salk Institute and UC San Diego have found in collaboration with researchers at the University of Kentucky.
http://www.advanceforal.com/common/editorial/editorial.aspx?CC=7352

Taiwan SARS Fight Aided by Telescience
Advance News Magazine, Aug. 8- When Taiwan, one of the regions hardest hit by SARS, began looking for ways to help combat the spread of the virus, they recognized the potential value of Telescience technologies developed by UCSD affiliates, and contacted the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research for help. http://www.advanceforal.com/common/editorial/editorial.aspx?CC=17951

Court Allows Recall to Proceed
Los Angeles Times, Aug. 8-The California Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for the Oct. 7 recall election as a flurry of candidates entering and leaving the race brought the campaign to succeed Gov. Gray Davis into sharper focus. (Quote by Steven Erie, a professor of political science at UC San Diego.)
http://www.latimes.com/la-me-recall8aug08,1,4246706.story

In California, it's raining candidates
Toronto Star, Aug. 8- An October vote to recall Democratic Governor Gray Davis has drawn out actors and pornographers, punk rockers and entrepreneurs, nobodies and wannabes, hucksters and scamsters to fill out the necessary paperwork to run for governor.(Quote by Samuel Popkin a professor of political science at UC San Diego.)
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Controversial issue of Proposition 54 in California
National Public Radio, Aug. 7- When California voters go to the polls in October for the gubernatorial recall election, they'll be casting votes on another controversial voter initiative. As we've heard, today the state Supreme Court declined to hear arguments against the so-called racial privacy initiative. That means it will be on the ballot. (Quote by Sam Popkin, a professor of political science at the University of California at San Diego.)
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Profile / Karen Oppenheimer, triathlete
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 8- A doctor at the UCSD Medical Center-Hillcrest practicing internal medicine, Karen Oppenheimer began working out more while she was in medical school in New York. She rode in the California AIDS Ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 1996, moved to San Diego later that year for her internship and entered her first triathlon in '97.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/sports/news_z1s8fanatics.html