A Sampling of Clips for 
August 25, 2004

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New Ways of Boosting Physical Endurance
WebMD, Aug. 24-While the world's elite athletes go for the gold at the Olympics in Athens, endurance records have been shattered on the other side of the globe. And although these unlikely "competitors" were lab mice, they may shed new light on the mechanics of physical endurance, metabolism, and weight. In a pair of experiments in Southern California, researchers used genetics to create "marathon mice" that left normal mice in the dust in head-to-head endurance trials. The tests were done by two separate research teams at the University of California, San Diego and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The studies took different approaches using genetically altered mice. (Quote by Randall Johnson, a biology professor at the University of California, San Diego and lead author of one of the studies.)
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/93/102154.htm
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Program Seeks Way to Speed New Drugs
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 25-Find a streamlined approach for academia and industry to collaborate and bring new cancer drugs to the market faster and cheaper. That's the challenge the National Cancer Institute posed to UCSD's cancer center and 13 other research institutions that have received a "planning grant" to design a leaner, meaner business model for getting drugs out of the lab and delivered to patients, UCSD announced yesterday. (Quote by Stephen Howell M.D., a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego and principal investigator on the planning grant.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20040
825-9999-1b25cancer.html

Creative Credit: Latinos Use Informal Groups Called Tandas to Finance Big Purchases, Build
Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Aug. 22-A tanda -- which literally means a group or a shift - is usually formed among family and friends as a way to quickly accumulate capital. A tanda usually consists of around 13 people, and each person puts in an agreed-upon amount, say $100 a week. Everyone gets a turn collecting the pool of money, $1,300 in this case, and everyone continues paying until everyone in the group has had his or her turn. Tandas are widely practiced in Mexico and Central America and immigrants have brought the tanda with them to the United States. (Quote by Erik Lee, assistant director at the Center for U.S. Mexican Studies at UC San Diego.)
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Yes, Men and Women Do See the World Differently
London Daily Telegraph, Opinion, Aug. 25-As an Irish, teenage girl, I have often wondered if the world of colour that I perceive with my eyes is the same as that of others. Not only my fellow XX chromosome holders but also those holders of the X chromosome paired with the puny and rather ineffectual Y chromosome, commonly known as "men". Let me begin with a look at the history of our colour vision. (Refers to research conducted by the University of California, San Diego.)
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Friends React To News Of Councilman's Alcoholism
NBC Channel 7/39, San Diego, Aug. 24-While friends and colleagues say they cannot believe former Councilman Charles Lewis was an alcoholic, medical experts say the evidence is clear. An autopsy report released Monday showed that Lewis had a 0.3 blood alcohol level at the time he was admitted to the hospital. Doctors say the amount could have been much higher due to the fact that Lewis had already lost 2 to 3 quarts of blood. (Quote by Paul Wolf, M.D., a pathology professor at UCSD.)
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/3678927/detail.html

Injecting Truth May Be a Remedy
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 25-The Institute of Medicine confirmed in 2000 what many have suspected: patient injuries are common and usually caused by human error. Errors occur because caring people acting in good faith work in systems that create opportunities for it or that cannot absorb their effects. How common is error? Recent figures indicate deaths due to error approach 195,000 annually, which is equivalent to three commercial jets crashing and killing everyone aboard every day, 365 days a year. Such injury levels have substantially contributed to the malpractice crisis affecting patients and physicians across the country today. (Article written by Bryan A. Liang, an adjunct associate professor of anesthesiology at the UCSD School of Medicine.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040825/news_lz1e25liang.html

Questions Answered
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 25-Q & A column by Sherry Seethaler, a UCSD science writer and educator who answers science questions submitted by San Diego Union-Tribune readers.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040825/news_1c25sciqa.html