A Sampling of Clips for August 7^th, 2008

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Border Agents Unevenly Spread on Boundary
MSNBC, Aug. 6 - Despite efforts to add Border Patrol agents to areas where immigrant traffic is high and drug violence is flaring, officers assigned to the 2,000-mile boundary with Mexico are bunched up near the California coast. And some critics see politics at play. (Quotes Wayne Cornelius, a professor at UCSD) More

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Athletes Prepare for Beijing
CNN, Aug. 5 -- Olympic athletes prepare for Beijing in Japan, avoiding pressure and pollution. (Quotes UCSD Olympic kayaker Carrie Johnson) More

Mexicans in U.S. Illegally at More Risk of AIDS
The Washington Post, Aug. 6 -- Mexican men living and working illegally in the United States are more likely to sell their bodies for sex, take drugs or frequent prostitutes than they would have been in their homeland, increasing their risk of AIDS infection, UCSD researchers reported on Wednesday. More

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In Anthrax Scientist’s E-Mail, Hints of Delusions
The New York Times, Aug. 6 — Bruce E. Ivins went to work each day in a high-security federal laboratory where he handled some of the world’s deadliest substances. But more than a year before the 2001 anthrax attacks, the scientist admitted to himself that he was losing his grasp on reality. (Quotes Richard G. Rappaport, an associate clinical psychiatry professor at UCSD, who examined court papers at the request of The New York Times) More

When Universities Run Schools ... Into the Ground
Inside Higher Ed, Aug. 7 -- In the 1990s, a number of universities got into the business of running charter schools, with compelling plans to match the vast intellectual resources of their faculty with the educational and social service needs of impoverished communities. One university that has been able to boast about its charter school is UCSD, where the Preuss School, a charter middle and high school located on campus, has racked up national recognition (and rankings) and, for the class of 2008, a 96-percent acceptance rate to four-year colleges. More

Irvine's Julie Swail Ertel Takes on New Olympic Challenge
Orange County Register, Aug. 6 -- Irvine resident and UCSD alumna Julie Swail has represented her country once in the Olympics. In 2000, she was a member of the United States women's water polo squad that took the silver medal. Now, Swail is ready to compete for the U.S. in the triathlon event, which challenges athletes in running, swimming and cycling. More

China Emerges from Chairman's Shadow
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 7 -- Chairman Mao, the architect of the People's Republic of China and its communist regime, has vanished, like one of Beijing's 21st-century skyscrapers into the soupy smog that regularly envelops the city. (Mentions Susan Shirk, a professor at UCSD’s Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and her latest book on China “Fragile Superpower”) More

Fishing Takes Toll on Shark Populations
KPBS, Aug. 6 -- A new study says sharks are necessary for healthy oceans, but commercial fishing is taking a toll on their populations. Each year, tens of millions of sharks are caught only for their fins. KPBS Environmental Reporter Ed Joyce spoke with Stuart Sandin, a marine biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography about the role of sharks in the ocean ecosystem. More

Egg Shortages Stalling Stem Cell Research
Voice of San Diego, Aug. 7 -- In January, renowned scientists and researchers lauded the success of Stemagen Corp., a small biotechnology firm in La Jolla, when it became the first to document the successful cloning of human embryos by fusing donated egg cells with the DNA from the skin cells of an adult man. (Quotes Mike Kalichman, the director of the Research Ethics Program at UCSD) More

Report: Water the 'Challenge of the Century'
Voice of San Diego, Aug. 7 -- Water court appearances for people who waste water. Conservation scorecards for water districts. A requirement that all new landscaping be drought-tolerant. And a recommendation for homeowners to spend 84 cents on a bucket to capture that first cold 30-second burst from the morning shower. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Steve Erie) More

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