A Sampling of Clips for
February 06, 2004
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News from
Nature, the International Journal of Science
The Guardian (London), Feb. 5-You
don't need live bacteria to boost your digestive system, just
their DNA, according to US-led research in Gastroenterology.
The human gut contains about 100 species, including igoodi bacteria
such as Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium. Eyal Raz of the University
of California, San Diego, and colleagues looked
at the effect of these bacteria on mice with colitis, a condition
similar to inflammatory bowel disease in humans. The bacteria
were just as effective when inactivated with gamma-ray radiation
as when live cultures were used.
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News briefs
from San Diego County
Associated Press, Feb. 5-A chemist
who won the Nobel Prize for his work on ozone deterioration
will join the team of researchers at UC San Diego
to continue his work on air pollution. Mario Molina,
will leave the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and begin
his work July 1 in the UCSD chemistry department
and at the Scripps Institution for Oceanography.
Molina won the Noble Prize for chemistry in
1995, for a decade of work that found that CFCs would destroy
the Earth's ozone layer.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/7883484.htm
Similar
articles appeared in:
San Jose Mercury News, Feb. 5
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/7883484.htm
North County Times,
Feb. 6
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/02/06/news/top_stories/2_5_0423_04_10.prt
Budget Gets Rough Treatment at First
Hearing
San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 6-Senate
Democrats, holding their first hearing Thursday on Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger's budget proposal for next year, soundly rejected
the governor's call for deep cuts to higher education, to highway
construction and to medical aid for the poor.
The action highlights a continuing schism between the Republican
governor, who says the state has overspent its way into the
current problem, and Democrats in the Legislature, who would
rather see tax increases to avoid deep cuts to services. (Quote
by Julian Betts, an economics professor at
UC San Diego.)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/06/MNGOJ4QKB31.DTL
Cedar Fire
Burn Victim Survival 'A Miracle'
SanDiegoChannel.com, Feb. 5-Rudy Reyes
still remains in the hospital healing from devastating burns
he suffered during the Cedar Fire. Doctors said the heat from
the flames was more than 1,200 degrees. Reyes was burned to
the bone over 55 percent of his body, but it was the damage
to his lungs that most worried doctors at the UCSD
Regional Burn Center. "Surviving a 55 percent burn isn't
all that miraculous, except for the fact that he sustained a
very serious inhalation injury and that's what makes a burn
this size difficult to survive," Daniel Lozano
M.D. said. Reyes has already undergone several surgeries and
doctors say he is healing.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/02/06/news/top_stories/2_5_0423_04_10.prt
