A Sampling of Clips for 
February 12 - 13, 2004

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International Kyoto Prize Winners To Speak And Be Feted In San Diego
San Diego Metropolitan Magazine, Feb. 2004-In what may be an unprecedented level of cooperation, three local universities, including UC San Diego, will host a symposium March 3 through 5 at which the three winners of the prestigious Kyoto Prize will discuss their groundbreaking works in basic science, advanced technology and the arts. The laureates, astrophysicist Eugene Newman Parker of the University of Chicago, nanotechnologist George McClelland Whitesides of Harvard University and bunraku puppet master Tamao Yoshida of Osaka, Japan, each received a gold medal and $400,000 during ceremonies Nov. 10 in Kyoto, Japan.
http://www.sandiegometro.com/2004/feb/biotech2.php

Woman Gets Clotheslined By Power Line, Survives
TheSanDiegoChannel.com, Feb. 12-A young woman was struck with 50,000 volts of electricity and survived. Joella Smith, 20, was driving on a highway in Brawley, Calif., on Dec. 7, 2003, when she ran off the road and into a power pole. Smith was unconscious when paramedics arrived, but still breathing when she arrived by helicopter to UCSD's Regional Burn Center. (Quote by Daniel Lozano M.D., a physician at the UCSD Medical Center.)
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/health/2839981/detail.html

Balmy Weather; Let's See if We Deserve It
San Diego Union-Tribune, Neil Morgan, Feb. 13-The UCSD Geisel Library has acquired its 3 millionth book and displayed it last Monday evening. Snug in its display case but accessible to cautious hands, a witty English volume about weather prediction, dated 1744, was welcomed by a stalwart group of book lovers. Among them was Dorothy Hill, the widow of Rancho Santa Fe's Ken Hill, a benefactor to whom petroleum investing had seemed no big puzzle. Among much else, the Hills donated UCSD's 2 millionth volume 14 years ago, and gave UC Berkeley its 30 millionth book this year.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/metro/news_1m13morgan.html

SD HIV Mothers
City News Service, Feb. 11-About 48 women who deliver babies at Tijuana General Hospital are found each year to be infected with HIV, a rate 10 times higher than at UCSD Medical Center, according to a UCSD School of Medicine study. The study showed that 1.26 percent of the 947 women in labor at the hospital tested positive for HIV between June and September 2003. Mexican officials previously estimated HIV infection among pregnant women at only 0.09 percent.
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Calls for Regulation Greet Breakthrough in Human Cloning
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 13-In a clash of politics and science, the first successful cloning of a human embryo - and the extraction of stem cells from it - has ignited calls for a ban on human cloning in the United States. The cloning announcement by South Korean scientists yesterday prompted members of Congress and church leaders to ask for immediate legislation. (Mentions stem cell research conducted by Larry Goldstein at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/news/news_1n13clone.html

He'll Keep You Posted, Artwise
San Diego Union-Tribune, Diane Bell, Feb. 12-You may not know it, but you undoubtedly own a piece of art by Carl T. Herrman. People stand in line to buy the Carlsbad artist's creations. If you haven't already guessed, Herrman is an official U.S. stamp designer - one of six in the nation. Herrman's newest work, available for 37 cents, depicts the late Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss. It will be unveiled by Mrs. Seuss, a.k.a. Audrey Geisel, at UCSD's Geisel Library on March 2, the 100th anniversary of the author's birth. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/thu/metro/news_7m12bell.html

County Schools
San Diego Union-Tribune, Editorial, Feb. 13-The San Diego County Board of Education is no longer an ideological battlefield with arch-conservatives trying to cashier Superintendent Rudy Castruita and impose their own agenda on the region's 42 school districts. This isn't to suggest all five board members agree on every issue. But board meetings now are refreshingly free of the rancor that used to delay, if not prevent, the trustees from doing what was best for students. (Mentions incumbent trustee Nick Aguilar, an administrator for UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/op-ed/editorial2/20040213-9999_mz1ed13botto.html

Go Take a Walk
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 13-More than 100 million people nationally walk recreationally or walk for fitness, according to the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association. That figure exceeds swimmers (93 million), cyclists (53 million) and runners (34 million). There are a number of reasons for walking's popularity. (Quote by Mark Bracker M.D., founding director of sports medicine at the UCSD Medical Center.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/sports/news_mz1s13walk.html

In Tune with Tradition
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 12-Most children hear the "o-wim-o-weh" refrain from "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" and instantly think of Disney's animated film "The Lion King." San Diego performer and UCSD Undergraduate Admissions PR director, Nancy Saint John thinks they should know the true origin of the lyrics. Saint John will hand out instruments and lead preschoolers in a lightly rocking rendition of the song and introduce them to other elements of black history and culture at 10:30 a.m. Feb. 19 at the Encinitas branch library.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/thu/metro/news_m1m12tfencin.html

Strikers Rally in Encinitas
North County Times, Feb. 13-With an armada of helicopters circling overhead and a phalanx of sheriff's cars behind, members of Local 135 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union staged a 90-minute rally and march Wednesday that was probably a good morale boost, but not likely to achieve much else. (Quote by Carolan Buckmaster, a cancer researcher at UC San Diego.)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/02/12/business/news/2_11_0419_21_73.txt

50 Years After Brown: California's 'Texas challenge'
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 11-It's only coincidence, but a telling one. With the approach of the 50th anniversary of the watershed Brown v. Board of Education school segregation decision, probably the most important Supreme Court ruling of the past century, California this spring will pass a demographic landmark that again demonstrates how important Brown was, both for what it did and what it didn't do. (Quote by Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center of Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/thu/opinion/news_1e12schrag.html

Same article appeared in:
Sacramento Bee, Feb. 11
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/thu/opinion/news_1e12schrag.html

Attacking Mortality
International Herald Tribune, Feb. 12-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 a certain risk. The study, led by Akiko Tamakoshi of the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, appears in the journal Sleep. In an accompanying editorial, Daniel Kripke, 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.iht.com/articles/129156.html