A Sampling of Clips for
February 07 - 10, 2004
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Attacking
Mortality in Your Sleep
New York Times, Feb. 10-The health
risks of too little sleep are well established, but how about
too much sleep? A new study finds that adults who sleep more
than seven and a half hours a day may also be at higher risk.
The study, led by Dr. Akiko Tamakoshi of the Nagoya University
Graduate School of Medicine, appears in the current issue of
the journal Sleep. In an accompanying editorial, Daniel
F. Kripke M.D., a sleep expert at the University
of California at San Diego, said that "although
these conclusions might surprise clinicians," they were
in keeping with earlier studies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/10/health/10HABI.html
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article appeared in:
USA Today, Feb. 9
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-02-08-sleep-usat_x.htm
United Press International,
Feb. 9
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Good Housekeeping,
Feb. 9
http://magazines.ivillage.com/goodhousekeeping/hb/news/article/0,,usatoday_2004_02_09_eng-usatoday_life_eng-usatoday_life_050637_7526601448797438188~ew~xml,00.html
WTOP,
Feb. 9
http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=106&sid=168439
Nobel-Winning Chemist Accepts University
Post
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 8-Mario
Molina, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for chemistry,
has accepted a faculty post at UC San Diego,
officials announced. Molina, of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, will become the 16th Nobel Prize winner
at UC San Diego. His work involved pointing
out the threat poised to the ozone layer by chlorofluorocarbon
gases.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sbriefs8.2feb08,1,3340062.story
Dead or
Alive, 'Good' Bacteria may Improve Digestion
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 9-Probiotics
in yogurt, some other dairy products and supplements contain
"good bugs," live microbes that can improve digestion
and ease disorders such as inflammatory bowel disease, allergies
and even some cancers. But scientists haven't known exactly
how these live microbes work and have worried that some probiotics
might pose a danger to infants and those with compromised immune
systems. Now researchers at the UC San Diego
School of Medicine and Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem
have pinpointed the source of probiotics' anti-inflammatory
benefits and found a potentially safer way to administer them.
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-capsules9.1feb09,1,2314674.story
Putting
Americans to the Test
Los Angeles Times, Opinion, Feb. 8-What
do you need to know to be an American? That's the tricky question
raised by the Bush administration's decision to revamp the test
that immigrants must pass to gain their American citizenship.
(Article written by Michael Schudson, a communications
and sociology professor at UC San Diego.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-schudson8feb08,1,4431554.story
Cool New
Ideas to Save Brains
Wired News, Feb. 10-With a mixture
of hope and skepticism, 3,000 doctors and scientists pored over
new high-tech devices last weekend at the International Stroke
Conference, sponsored by the American Hearth Association. They
compared notes about stroke, the third-leading cause of death
in the United States. An estimated 700,000 Americans suffer
strokes each year. At the stroke conference, researchers from
the University of California at San Diego unveiled
an Internet-based system to help emergency rooms get expert
advice. It's the latest in a stream of similar proposals. For
at least five years, American doctors have been experimenting
with ways to allow faraway doctors to see test results and examine
stroke patients through video and computer links.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,62224,00.html
UCSD Hosts
Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist
San Diego Daily Transcript, Feb. 9-Steven
Coll, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and managing editor
of The Washington Post, will be in town next month to discuss
his upcoming book on the CIA, Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden.
The discussion is part of the University of California,
San Diego's Revelle Forum at the Neurosciences Institute,
a series of lectures, readings and interviews with leading figures
in art, culture, current events and media. Coll's book titled,
"Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan,
and bin Laden," covers U.S. foreign intelligence activities
in the Central Asian nation since 1979.
http://www.sddt.com/News/article.cfm?SourceCode=20040209tle#
'Beyond
Illusion' opens UCSD lecture series
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 10-Critic
Theodore Shank, UCSD emeritus
professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance, kicks off
a new lecture/performance series at the university tomorrow
with "Beyond Illusion: Alternative Theatre in the USA."
Shank is a widely published theater scholar
who recently authored the follow-up to his landmark book "Alternative
Theatre," a study of such groundbreaking troupes as
the Living Theatre, Joe Chaikin's Open Theater and the San Francisco
Mime Troupe.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/tue/currents/news_1c10show.html
Angle Matters
in Checks of Blood Pressure
Baltimore Sun, Feb. 8-How you position
your arm during a blood pressure check could potentially determine
whether your doctor properly diagnoses and treats your hypertension.
That conclusion comes from a study in which researchers at the
University of California at San Diego placed
patients' arms in slightly exaggerated positions. With the arm
straight and parallel to the body, blood pressure readings can
be up to 10 percent higher than when the elbow is bent at a
right angle to the body at the level of the heart, researchers
found. David Guss M.D., director of emergency
room services at UC San Diego, oversaw the
study of 100 emergency room patients with signs of cardiovascular
problems.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-hf.briefs08feb08,0,4810617.story?coll=bal-health-headlines
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article appeared in:
Alameda Times-Star, Feb. 8
http://www.timesstar.com/Stories/0,1413,125~1549~1943937,00.html#
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. (Quote by Julian
Betts, an economics professor at UC San Diego
and author of the study that found about half of half of all
workers with bachelor's or higher education degrees were educated
in other states and countries -- meaning the state is importing
to meet demand.)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/06/MNGOJ4QKB31.DTL
Learning
About the Brain Could Put Method Into Architecture's Madness
Washington Post, Opinion, Feb. 7-Architects
are finally hooking up with neuroscientists to explore how the
human brain experiences architecture, and why. Still in its
infancy, this collaboration is being spearheaded by the American
Institute of Architects and the recently launched Academy of
Neuroscience for Architecture. The academy is appropriately
based in the San Diego area, where the University of
California San Diego and, in nearby La Jolla, the Salk
Institute, the Neuroscience Institute and the Scripps Research
Institute are already engaged in cognitive studies and neuroscience
research.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19446-2004Feb6.html
Every month,
they come to Las Vegas not to gamble but to commit suicide
Houston Chronicle, Feb. 9-Every year
desperate men and women make the pilgrimage to the gambling
capital Las Vegas to kill themselves. More than once a month,
a visitor commits suicide here, according to Clark County Coroner
records dating to October 1998. (Quote by David P. Phillips,
a sociologist at the University of California at San
Diego, who co-authored a 1997 study that found Las
Vegas had the highest level of suicide in the nation for residents
and visitors.)
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2394057
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article appeared in:
CBS News, Feb. 9
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/09/health/main599070.shtml
The Ghost in the Cosmos
New
Scientist, Feb. 7-Does a ghostly force haunt the
universe? A new theory by Nima Arkani-Hamed of Harvard University
could simultaneously explain three of cosmology's deepest mysteries.
(Mentions Project Apollo, a research project led by Tom
Murphy of the University of California, San
Diego.)
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'Asian'
Brown Cloud Back on the Horizon
Times of India, Feb. 8-The Asian Brown
Cloud is back on the horizon in its new avtar, the Atmospheric
Brown Cloud. Hoping to have thus defused the diplomatic timebomb,
which caused India much heartburn a year ago, an international
team of scientists is on track to study the pollution haze that
has spread thousands of kilometres to cover Asia and could hit
rain patterns, agriculture and health. (Quotes by Nobel laureate
Paul Crutzen and V. Ramanathan
from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/484047.cms
Group Seeks
State Funds for Stem Cell Research
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 7-A
group of patient advocates and prominent researchers is gathering
signatures to get a proposition on the November ballot that
could make $3 billion available to California scientists for
human embryonic stem cell research. The coalition, Californians
for Stem Cell Research and Cures, aims to counter a 2001 order
by President Bush that limited federal funding of the work,
which many religious and anti-abortion groups oppose. (Quote
by Larry Goldstein, a stem cell researcher
at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/20040207-9999-_1n7stem.html
Largest-Ever
Simulation of Cosmic Evolution Calculated at SDSC
T-Sector, Feb. 9-The universe of cosmologist
Michael Norman has just become a lot bigger
and more complex. Norman, a professor of physics
at the Center for Astrophysics and Space Science at the University
of California, San Diego, together with colleagues
at CASS and the San Diego Supercomputer Center,
has just run the world's largest and most complex scientific
simulation of the evolution of the universe ever performed.
Using SDSC's Blue Horizon supercomputer, the
team tracked the formation of enormous structures of galaxies
and gas clouds during the millions and billions of years following
the Big Bang.
http://www.thetsector.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=6972
China Subject
of Public Meetings
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 7-A
congressional commission weighing national security implications
for the United States from its trade and economic relationship
with China will hold two days of meetings at UCSD
Feb. 12 and 13. The sessions are part of a national fact-finding
effort by the congressional U.S. China Economic and Security
Review Commission and will involve scholars and leaders in business
and technology.
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Good Morning
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 7-Its
Museum Month. That makes it a great time to see planes and trains
and stimulate your brains by taking advantage of half-price
admission to visit the many museums around the county. The 15th
annual celebration runs through the 29th, and a special museum-month
brochure listing participating museums is available at all Robinson-May
department stores. Participating museums and historical sites
are all over the county and include the Birch Aquarium at Scripps
Institution of Oceanography and the Stuart Collection
of Sculpture at UCSD.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sat/currents/news_mz1c7pg2am.html
