A Sampling of Clips for 
December 14, 2004

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Heart Attacks are More Common During the Holidays
New York Times, Dec. 14-The stress of last-minute shopping, squabbling in-laws and busy airports can make the holidays more a season of headaches than of celebration. But is there any connection between holiday stress and heart attacks? In several studies, Dr. David P. Phillips and colleagues at the University of California, San Diego, have found that deaths from heart disease and other illnesses tend to dip just before major social occasions, like holidays and cultural events, then climb sharply right after. More

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Stem Cell Post Likely to Go to Klein
Los Angeles Times, Dec. 14-Bob Klein, a Palo Alto real estate developer who has no scientific background but who ran the multimillion-dollar Proposition 71 campaign, appeared Monday to have a near-lock on the powerful job of running the state's $3-billion stem cell institute. (Quote by Theodore Friedmann, director of UCSD's gene therapy program. Also mentions appointees to stem cell oversight panel, including Leon J. Thal, chairman of the Department of Neurosciences at UCSD and Edward W. Holmes, dean of the UCSD School of Medicine.) More

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Former UCSD Fellow Appointed to Stem Cell Panel
KFMB, Dec. 13-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Monday that a former post-doctoral fellow at UCSD, Dr. Leon Thal, is his choice for vice chair of the 29-member oversight panel that will govern stem cell research in California. More

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UNR Wins $2 Million to Study Bridge Safety in Earthquakes
KESQ Channel 3, Nevada-The University of Nevada, Reno has been awarded a two million dollar grant to take the lead with four other schools, including UCSD, in researching the safety of highway bridges during big earthquakes. More

Researchers Improve Predictions of Cloud Formation for Better Global Climate Modeling
Innovations Report, Dec. 13-Researchers are developing improved methods for representing cloud formation in global climate models because of increased aerosol pollution, which gives clouds more cooling power and affects precipitation. (Refers to research conducted by Gregory Roberts at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

Canine Convergence
Ottawa Citizen, Dec. 13-Dog owners know it's the animal that seems to choose its owner. Could it be that our pets are looking for someone just like them? (Refers to research conducted by Nicholas S.J. Christenfeld and Michael M. Roy, both at UCSD.) More

A Legend in Biotech World
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 14-Former UCSD scientist Ivor Royston became a local business legend by leveraging monoclonal antibodies into two of San Diego's best known biotechnology success stories - Hybritech and Idec Pharmaceuticals - and making himself a millionaire in the process. Yet it is his failures to which Royston often turns the conversation, with candor and self-depreciating humor. More

Warming Trend Affecting Bay
Monterey Herald, Dec. 13-The United States has experienced rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns during the past century, and significant effects on animals and plants, from foxes to forest phlox, are already detectable. (Quote by Rafe Sagarin, a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

Local Group Works to Keep Connection to Awards Program
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 12-Since 2002, in a bid to win the world's attention, billionaire Kazuo Inamori has sent Kyoto Prize laureates to speak at an annual post-awards symposium in San Diego. (Mentions Kyoto prize winner Walter Munk, an oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More