A Sampling of Clips for 
August 27, 2004

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Mexico Thriving Again After Three-Year Manufacturing Slump
Straits Times Asia, Aug. 26-Across Tijuana's vast industrial parks, the export assembly plants known as maquiladoras are thriving, posting giant 'help wanted' signs. In June, an industry group estimated that the Tijuana plants needed to fill some 15,000 jobs. (Quote by Gordon Hanson, a professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,4386,269424,00.html

Sea Life Reacts Unpredictably in Warming Waters
San Jose Mercury News, Aug. 27-In a taste of what may happen as the world grows warmer, scientists found that warm water flowing out of California's Diablo Canyon Power Plant threw sea life for a loop: Some species flourished, others vanished. More disturbing, there was no predictable pattern to the disruption -- supporting the idea that global warming could produce abrupt and unpleasant surprises. On the California coast, the effects could be felt on everything from fisheries to tourism to local weather. (Quote by Mark Ohman, a biological oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/9511015.htm

Mathematics: Building a Gold Medal Team
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Aug. 27-For the past two weeks, much of our nation's attention has been focused on the U.S. athletes competing in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens. Yet few of us know, or would even care, that our nation sent another elite group of U.S. competitors to Athens last month for the 2004 International Mathematics Olympiad. Granted, an Olympiad for math may not be as exciting as Michael Phelps' quest for eight Olympic swimming medals or Marion Jones' attempt to win gold in the long jump. But the fact is, the ability of our youth to compete with the rest of the world in mathematics, or at least to be functionally literate in the subject, is infinitely more important for our economic and technological future than our nation's haul of Olympic gold, silver and bronze medals (Mentions award-winning UCSD mathematicians, Efim Zelmanov, Ronald Graham and Fan Chung Graham.) (Article written by Mark H. Thiemens, a professor at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040827/news_lz1e27thiemen.html

Biotechs Support Stem Cell Ballot Initiative
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 27-The San Diego biotechnology industry group Biocom announced it is endorsing a bond initiative on the Nov. 2 ballot that would make $3 billion available for embryonic stem cell research in California. Proposition 71, the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, would provide $295 million a year over 10 years for embryonic stem cell research. If approved, the state's funding would dwarf the federal government's investment in stem-cell research, which totaled $10.7 million in 2002. Research at places such as UCSD and the Burnham Institute in San Diego that would be funded with the proposed initiative could eventually be a boon for California biotechnology companies that could turn the science into products.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20040827-9999-1b27stem.html

NCSU Still Looking for New Chancellor
Channel 14, North Carolina, Aug. 27-The open forums are completed in NC State's search for a new chancellor. The search committee is looking for someone who understands North Carolina like a native and a strong leader. The search committee is preparing for the next phase of the search that includes contacting possible candidates and talking to references. The university plans to name a new chancellor by the first of the year. Marye Anne Fox left this summer to take the top administrative post at the University of California, San Diego.
http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=54228&SecID=2

UCSD Pulls Plug on Future Bridge
La Jolla Village News, Aug. 19-Due to budget constraints and escalating bridge construction costs, the University of California, San Diego has decided to discontinue work on a proposed bridge that would have spanned Interstate 5, connecting the east and west portions of the campus. (Quote by Paul Croft, senior consultant with UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering.)
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/eclips/PDF/bridge_lajollavillagenews.pdf