A Sampling of Clips for
December 10, 2002
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West comes
up dry on plans for drought
Los Angeles Times, Dec. 9 –
New studies by Scripps Institution of Oceanography
predict global warming will aggravate the West’s drought
problems. (Quotes Scripps Institution of Oceanography
scientist Tim Barnett).
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Are full-body
scans a scam?
CBS News, Dec. 3 -- A full-body computed
tomography (CT) scan may be beneficial to fewer people than
previously thought, according to a study presented by Giovanna
Casola, M.D., Radiology, at the 88thScientific Assembly
and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America
(RSNA) in Chicago. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/03/health/main531563.shtml
Related
article appeared in:
Discovery Health Channel, Dec. 3
http://health.discovery.com/news/afp/20021202/ctscan.html
Human or
computer? Take this test
New York Times, Dec. 10, Pg. 1 –
Udi Manber, chief scientist of the Internet portal Yahoo, needed
a simple way of differentiating human intelligence from that
of a machine. Manuel Blum devised a collection of cognitive
puzzles, called Captchas, based on challenging problems of artificial
intelligence to prevent automated registrations on Yahoo’s
website. (Mentions research by Serge Belongie,
UCSD assistant professor of computer science
and engineering).
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Professors
troubled by parents complaining on behalf of college students
Associated Press, Dec. 10 -- A mother
of a UCSD student who objected to what she
said was one-sided teaching in her son’s college writing
course has launched a Web site allowing students across the
country to anonymously accuse their professors of political
bias.
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Scripps Institution researchers
develop new approach for designing marine reserves
Science
Daily, Dec. 10 – Scripps Institution
of Oceanography researchers have developed a fundamentally
new approach for designing networks of marine reserves. The
report published in Science illustrates the most advanced marine
reserve network design to date. Scripps researcher
Enric Sala led a group in the Gulf of California.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/12/021206074701.htm
Metropolis/snapshots
from the center of the universe southeast blues L.A.’s
working-class strugglers come in all colors
Los Angeles Times Magazine, Dec. 8
– In “My Blue Heaven,” recently published
by the University of Chicago Press, UCSD historian
Becky M. Nicolaides, suggests that subsistence
living in Southeast L.A. is a case of déjà vu,
right down to the tents and garage shelters.
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Scripps
involved in satellite to measure melting ice sheets
San Diego Union Tribune, Pg. 9, Dec.
10 – Scripps Institution of Oceanography
scientists are among the group gathered to discuss the latest
research on global warming and rapid climate change. A new satellite,
called ICESat and scheduled for launch Dec. 19 from Vandenberg
Air Force Base, is expected to help them understand more about
the balance between the winter storms that add to ice sheets
and the summer warming that thins their edges and breaks huge
regions apart. (Quotes Bernard Minster, a researcher
at Scripps and one of eight members of the
science team behind the mission).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/tue/news/news_1n10ice.html
New staffing
ratios present challenges to hospitals facing nursing shortage
San Diego Daily Transcript, Dec. 10
– The California Department of Health Services has a year
to revise and implement nurse-to-patient staffing regulations.
(Mentions UCSD's facilities and quotes UCSD's
director of patient care services, Mary Middleton).
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