A Sampling of Clips for 
August 09 - 11, 2003

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Designer plants could clean hazardous waste
San Jose Business Journal, Aug. 11-A chemical can permit plants to detoxify heavy metals and transport them from the roots to stems and leaves, a finding that brings the possibility of using plants to clean up soil contaminated with toxic metals such as lead, arsenic and cadmium one step closer to reality, say researchers at the University of California at San Diego.
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2003/08/11/daily2.html?t=printable

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Use Web Services? Then This Survey Is One for You
San Diego Business Journal, Aug. 11-UCSD Extension is taking the pulse of Web services in the San Diego region through a voluntary survey and it's presenting the results next month.
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Seaweeds use chemical warfare to fight microbes
Chemistry, Aug. 8- Researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, have discovered that seaweeds defend themselves from specific pathogens with naturally occurring antibiotics. This finding helps explain why some seaweeds, sponges and corals appear to avoid most infections by fungi and bacteria.
http://acs.yellowbrix.com/pages/acs/Story.nsp?story_id=40739190&ID=acs&scategory=Chemicals&

Far from haven
Los Angeles Times, Aug. 10-Review of Tom Donaghy's play "Eden Lane", that caught the attention of Des McAnuff, artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse, and is currently being performed at the UCSD Mandell Weiss Theatre.
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Sally K. Ride: Young girls can see real stars
Detroit Free Press, Aug. 11-Article written by Sally K. Ride, a professor of physics at UCSD, who analyzes why there aren't more woman involved in the science and technology industry, and what is being done to change that statistic.
http://www.freep.com/voices/columnists/eride11_20030811.htm

Sunday mix of good news and bad
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 10-Neil Morgan gives summaries of the latest news around San Diego. He briefly covers UCSD chancellor Bob Dynes as he prepares to become president of the 10-campus UC system.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/morgan/20030810-9999_1m10morgan.html

Sun still shines on county economy
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 10- As the national economy is giving reports of rising productivity, higher retail sales and an unexpectedly large increase in the gross domestic product, an index of San Diego County economic indicators fell in June for the 14th time in 15 months. (Quote by economist Ross Starr, a professor of economics at UC San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20030810-9999_1n10sdecon.html

Des' Destiny
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jennifer de Poyen opinion, Aug. 10-Article about the career of Des McAnuff, and his time as artist director of the La Jolla Playhouse housed by UCSD. As McNuff sits down this month to plan the new season, the last he is charged with overseeing under his current, three-year contract, some questions surround the charismatic, sometimes controversial artistic director as to what the future holds for him.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20030810-9999_m1a10des.html

How representational work was overshadowed by abstract art
San Francisco Chronicle, David Kipen opinion, Aug. 10-Book review of Bram Dijkstra's "American Expressionism." Dijkstra is an emeritus comparative literature professor at the University of California, San Diego.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/08/10/RV277495.DTL

Was Dr. Kelly - Vince Fostered?
GOPUSA, opinion, Aug. 11- Sartre points out a pattern that the world's top microbiologists are dying. He refers to the recent death of Leland Rickman, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the UCSD School of Medicine, who died suddenly on June 24 while traveling and teaching medicine in Lesotho, Africa.
http://gopusa.com/sartre/sartre_0811p.shtml

Schwarzenegger's famous friends gave him many costly presents; Disclosure lists gifts valued up to $2,500
San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 11- In financial disclosure documents filed Saturday in Los Angeles, Schwarzenegger reported accepting dozens of expensive goodies last year from friends and associates, one of which was a gourmet basket from Marianne McDonald, a classics professor at UC San Diego.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/08/11/MN284404.DTL

Stem Cell Restrictions Hurting Research, Scientists Charge
CNSNews, Aug.11-- Two years after President Bush ordered a ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, the United States is falling behind other countries in the search for cures for life-threatening diseases, supporters of embryonic cell research said Friday. (Quote by Larry Goldstein, professor of cellular and molecular medicine at the University of California at San Diego.)
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200308%5CNAT20030811a.html

Buddies For Life: Breastfeeding Benefits
KFMB, Aug. 8-There are many benefits when breastfeeding your baby, both for the mother and child. (Interview with Doctor Georgia Sadler, Associate Clinical Professor with the UCSD Cancer Center.)
http://www.kfmb.com/healthcast/details.php?storyID=17368