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December 6, 2005

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When Homework Is
a Pain in the Neck -- and Back
ABC News, Dec. 6-Schoolkids have always complained about having tons of homework. New research at UCSD has now pinpointed how lugging around a heavy backpack is contributing to lower back and shoulder pain. More

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Reuters, Dec. 5
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Problems No Problem for Siemens Winners
USA Today, Dec. 6-A home-schooled 16-year-old from San Diego won a $100,000 scholarship for his solutions to a centuries-old math problem Monday in the Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology. Michael Viscardi's research on the Dirichlet Problem, formulated in the 19th century, may help describe how air moves around wings, how heat moves through objects and how magnetic fields surround stars. Viscardi worked for six months, guided by Peter Ebenfelt of UCSD, from whom he took calculus lessons as an eighth-grader. More

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CBS, Dec. 5
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 6

Slow Extraction for Icy 'Tooth'
BBC News, Dec. 5-The 30km by 30km block of ice known as the "Loose Tooth" is in the process of cracking away from the eastern edge of the White Continent. A project, led by the US Scripps Institution of Oceanography, aims to understand the mechanisms that drive the calving of great ice masses. More