A Sampling of Clips for December 23^rd, 2008

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How the West's Energy Boom Could
Threaten Drinking Water for 1 in 12 Americans
Scientific American, Dec. 23 -- The Colorado River, the life vein of the Southwestern United States, is in trouble. The river's water is hoarded the moment it trickles out of the mountains of Wyoming and Colorado and begins its 1,450-mile journey to Mexico's border. (Mentions researcher from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who warn the river's reservoirs could dry up in 13 years) More

Stanford Researchers Use Nanotech for Early Cancer Detection
The New York Times, Dec. 23 -- Using the same type of nanotechnology that enables hard drives to read and write data, researchers at Stanford University have developed a system that should be able to detect cancer in the human body. (Mentions research by UCSD scientists, who have discovered a way to use nanotechnology-based "smart bombs" to streamline lower doses of chemotherapy to cancerous tumors, cutting down on the cancer's ability to spread through the body) More

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The Evolution of Online Shopping
Rocky Mountain News, Dec. 22 -- On Taaz.com, women can upload photos of themselves and try on different makeup and hair styles. On Viewzi.com, users can search for a term and view full Web pages. Taaz and Viewzi are just two examples of how the Internet is evolving from text to visual-based. Taaz’s parent company is Photometria Inc., which was founded by a professor and doctoral students at UCSD. More

Paying Executives During a Bailout
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Dec. 23 -- Should the folks who made all that money during the go-go Wall Street days get to keep it, or should they have to pay back their big gains as a condition for the bailout? Taxpayers resent the idea they are subsidizing the perpetrators of the mess. So, why not demand a “clawback” – getting back gains that were based on shady numbers or sloppy business practices. (Co-authored by Peter Gourevitch, founding dean of the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UCSD and co-author of “Political Power and Corporate Control”) More

Waiting for H.M.
Voice of San Diego, Dec. 23 -- The final destination for H.M.'s cerebrum will be The Brain Observatory, the laboratory of UCSD researcher Jacopo Annese in Sorrento Valley. There, the brain will undergo a two-month cryoprotection process, and then be frozen. More

San Diego’s Craterous Impact
bizSanDiego.com, Dec. 22 --  According to an independent economic analysis released in September, UCSD contributes a whopping $7.2 billion in direct and indirect spending and personal income each year to the California economy and generates 39,000 jobs. And that just scratches the surface. More

UCSD to Receive Research Funding
from DoD's Minerva Research Initiative
San Diego Daily Transcript, Dec. 22 -- UCSD is among those selected for Department of Defense research funding. The DoD announced plans Monday to make awards to academic institutions to perform scholarly research in the social sciences under the department's Minerva Research Initiative. More

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