A Sampling of Clips for
February 11, 2004
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Dr. Paul
Jagger, 72; on UC San Diego Medical School's Initial Faculty
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 11-Paul
I. Jagger M.D., 72, a founding member of the UC
San Diego School of Medicine's faculty and first medical
director of the university's hospital, died Feb. 4 at San Diego
Hospice of cancer.
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/medicine/la-me-passings11.3feb11,1,1145380.story
High HIV
Infection Rate Found at Tijuana Hospital
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 11-
A surprising study of women in labor at one major Tijuana hospital
that serves the poor found 1.2 percent - or about 48 mothers
per year - are infected with the AIDS virus, researchers reported
yesterday. The rate is 10 times higher than at UCSD,
which conducted the study. (Quote by Rolando Viani
M.D., an assistant pediatrics professor at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/metro/news_7m11aids.html
Cause for
Alarm
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 10-There
was a time not that long ago when Chalmers Johnson
might have fit in nicely with Bill O'Reilly out on the right
flank of political discourse. A retired UCSD
professor, Johnson once served as a consultant
to the CIA. He supported the Vietnam War and thought the student
protesters were annoyingly naive. He voted for Ronald Reagan
for president - twice. Now he's out with a new book, "The
Sorrows of Empire." It's a scathing and scary indictment
of America's military expansion to all corners of the globe.
He sees a future of perpetual war and constitutional ruin and
financial bankruptcy.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040210-9999-1c10chalmers.html
'I Don't
Want to Hide'
San Diego Union-Tribune,
Feb. 11-The doctors told her parents she probably would not
make it. If she did, she would be in intensive care for six
months and rehabilitation would last more than a year. But Allyson
Roach defied the odds. Yesterday she left Palomar Medical Center's
acute rehabilitation unit 107 days after she was severely burned
in the Paradise fire. Her mother has spent every day with her
since she was burned, first at UCSD Medical
Center's burn unit, then at Palomar Medical Center, where Lori
Roach works as a nurse.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/fires/20040211-9999-1mi11allyson.html
Similar
articles appeared in:
TheSanDiegoChannel.com, Feb. 11
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/news/2837139/detail.html
North County Times,
Feb. 10
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/02/11/news/top_stories/2_10_0423_36_24.txt
Robots Sent
to Explore Oceans on the Cheap
Oregonian, Feb. 11-Charles Eriksen
is a modern-day master and commander. Unlike dauntless captains
portrayed in movies, however, the oceanographer doesn't need
to brave stormy seas to command his fleet. Oceanographers now
use gliders, small robots that help researchers collect data
beneath the ocean surface. Unlike costly ships confined to a
few small sites for short periods, the relatively inexpensive
and energy-efficient vehicles can gather immediate information
over wide swaths of ocean for months in harsh conditions. Similar
gliders are starting to appear in the world's oceans, including
an open-ocean robot called Spray developed by Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution and Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
http://www.oregonlive.com/science/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/science/1076417989238860.xml
An Eye
Underwater
Oregonian, Feb. 11-The complex, ever-moving
seafloor off the Northwest coast could become one of the most
studied expanses of underwater terrain under a bold plan to
build permanent seafloor observatories. The National Science
Foundation plans to launch a five-year, $208 million observatory
program that would let scientists continuously monitor the planet's
oceans. (Quote by John A. Orcutt, deputy director
of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.oregonlive.com/science/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/science/1076418040238860.xml
Blanks for the Memories
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 11-Most
daily events are quickly forgotten. But some events provoke
an emotional response, especially in those suffering from post-traumatic
stress syndrome. Soon, doctors may have a solution through drugs
that numb the emotional sting typically associated with our
intensely bad memories. (Quote by Larry Squire,
a neurobiologist at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_mz1c11blanks.html
S.D. Women Flock to Executive
Ranks
San Diego Union-Tribune, Neil Morgan,
Feb. 11-Hushing any lingering echo of the gossipy female, San
Diego's swelling ranks of women executives seem to be proving
more reticent than men about their roles in corporate boardrooms.
To those with whom I've talked, it's hardly news that more than
400 San Diego women hold positions of vice president or higher.
They link quietly with each other through Athena. Members include
women from around the region, including UCSD.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/metro/news_1m11morgan.html
Conference
to Address Environment from Tribal Perspective
North County Times, Feb. 10-Can people
today learn how to better manage the environment from the traditions
of ancient American Indians? That will be one of the central
questions to be discussed at Spirit of the Land, a two-day conference
co-sponsored by the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians and San
Diego State University beginning Friday. Other participants
will include members of the Sierra Club, the Surfrider Foundation,
the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the
San Diego Natural History Museum and other organizations.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/02/11/special_reports/
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