A Sampling of Clips for 
December 04 - 06, 2004

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Cover Story: Health for Life: Stem Cells
Newsweek, Dec. 6-When California voted yes on a $3 billion fund for stem-cell research last month, patient activists across the country rejoiced. (Quote by Larry Goldstein, a stem-cell biologist at UCSD.)
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Larry Goldstein on Stem Cells
CNN, Dec. 5-Q & A with Larry Goldstein about two new lab techniques that offer the possibility of large numbers of stem cells without the destruction of living human embryos.
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Q & A: Marye Anne Fox, UCSD Chancellor
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 6-Chancellor Marye Anne Fox, by background, is a physical organic chemist who has written 400 scientific articles and several books. Previously, she was vice president of research at the University of Texas at Austin, then chancellor at North Carolina State University. More

News in Science - Sex Makes Women Happy, it's Official
ABC News, Dec. 12-Having sex is the high point of most women's days, while commuting is the low point. And most women like being with their kids less than they admit, says a new study by UCSD.
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Notebook
Washington Post, Dec. 6-Iris Murdoch, the acclaimed British author who died in 1999 of Alzheimer's disease, showed clear signs of the devastating brain disorder in her last novel, according to a new analysis of her writings. (Refers to research conducted by UCSD.)
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New Thinking Is Needed to Unclog Roads and Ports
Los Angeles Times, Dec. 5-When Arnold Schwarzenegger traveled to Tokyo last month to promote trade with California, Japanese businessmen had a no-nonsense message for the governor: Not so fast. (Quote by Steven Erie, a UC San Diego professor and expert on the region's infrastructure.)
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Rain Has Ants on the Move
Los Angeles Times, Dec. 6-Ants are on the march again all over the Golden State, and it's the weather that made them do it. (Refers to research conducted by UCSD.)
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Anchors Away Hoopla Over Brokaw and Rather Obscures the Trend to a Less 'Anchored' TV News
Pittsburg Post-Gazette, Dec. 6-Watching NBC's relentless retrospective on the career of retiring anchorman Tom Brokaw last week, I couldn't help fantasizing about how CBS would treat the departure next March of Dan Rather from its evening news broadcast. (Refers to essay written by Daniel C. Hallin of the University of California, San Diego.)
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Mediation Can Help Resolve Care Issues
Copley News Service, Dec. 6-You know it's time to move your mother to a retirement community, but your sister believes Mom is perfectly capable of continuing to care for herself in her two-story home. The folks at the new Gerontology Mediation Program would like to help. Sponsored by the National Conflict Resolution Center, the project has received initial support from San
Diego County's Aging & Independence Services and the UCSD department of gerontology.
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Swingin' Through the Years
Los Angeles Times, Dec. 5-A new documentary, directed by UCSD professor Zeinabu Irene Davis, chronicles the life and times of septuagenarian jazz musician Clora Bryant.
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Side Effects
Toronto Star, Dec. 4-Every day, more than 3 million Canadians pop a cholesterol pill, comforted by the thought it could one day save their lives. (Quote by Dr. Beatrice Golomb, a neurologist at UCSD.)
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New Role for Drugs in Prevention, Treatment of Artherosclerosis
Medical News Today, Dec. 5-Drugs that work in the liver to reduce fatty triglyceride levels and improve insulin resistance are also effective at inhibiting the formation of cholesterol-laden plaques that cause atherosclerosis in artery walls, according to researchers at UCSD School of Medicine.
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Tiny Microbes Make Us Who We Are, Scientist Says
Miami Herald, Dec. 5-In an astonishing set of papers and a new book, University of California, Irvine virologist Luis Villarreal, contends viruses are largely responsible for shaping how we look, how we speak, even how we think. (Refers to research conducted by Villarreal at UCSD during the 1970's.)
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Stem Cell Research
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 5-The California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act, passed overwhelmingly by voters as Proposition 71 in November, lays out a strict timetable for setting up the human infrastructure that will guide research and the spending of over $300 million per year of taxpayers' money. Many of those already named to the 29-member, nonsalaried Independent Citizens Oversight Committee are among California's most respected scientists and academicians, including Edward W. Holmes, dean of the UCSD School of Medicine.
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Biotech Cluster Bluster
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 5- California scientists and business boosters, who united for the first 10 months of the year to persuade voters to approve spending $3 billion on stem cell research, now are breaking rank as they foment plans for getting some of that money. The University of California San Diego's Larry Goldstein was one of the authors of the stem cell initiative.
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A Legal Matter of Great Delicacy
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 8-Shark fin soup can sell for $100 or more a bowl. Yet the soup - which tastes like chicken or crab with the shark fins providing a gelatinous texture but no meat - carries a dark side. (Quote by Jeff Graham, who studies sharks as a marine biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
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1960 Land Gift may Foreshadow a Stem Cell Research Sequel
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 5-When it comes to forecasting the potential of state-funded stem cell research to benefit San Diego's entire community, I find myself thinking of another time in the region's history when our citizens also used public assets for scientific endeavors. The state can expect licensees of stem cell technology to offset costs associated with the initiative - as an example, technologies licensed out of UCSD alone generated $17 million in 2002 for the university.
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Coming to Terms
San Diego Union-Tribune, Editorial, Dec. 5- Gov. Arnold Schwarz-enegger reportedly may call a special election next year seeking a voters' revolt against state government spending, the gerrymandering of legislative and congressional districts and an overhaul of the state bureaucracy. A new study by Thad Kousser, assistant professor of political science at UCSD, and Bruce Cain, director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley, demonstrates quite clearly that California's term-limit law has done more harm than good.
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College Entrance Exam to get Revisions
North County Times, Dec. 6-High school students who took the Scholastic Assessment Test on Saturday got one of the last looks at the high-stakes exam before it undergoes a major face-lift this spring. (Quote by Mae Brown, assistant vice chancellor for admissions and enrollment services at UCSD.)
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