A Sampling of Clips for 
February 15, 2006

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'Maybe He's Just Not Into You, Helena'
The New York Times, Feb. 14 -- Whether the genre is comedy, tragedy or history, it's no secret to regular theatergoers that all often does not go well for Shakespeare, even on stages in New York City, the country's theater capital. If the actress playing the cross-dressing ingénue is lovely and affecting, her paramour may be played by a cardboard charmer with a popular television show on his résumé. Or maybe the clowns hit their marks, but the love-struck youngsters speak verse as if they're reading the list of additives from the back of a cereal box. (Cites production director Darko Tresnjak, faculty member in UCSD's theater and dance department and head of the directing program.) More

Can't See Red Over Brown Cloud Now
Indian Express (New Delhi), Feb. 15 -- Faced with evidence that the haze of pollutants over the Indian Ocean could adversely affect monsoons, agriculture and even public health, New Delhi has decided to join the international Atmospheric Brown Cloud (ABC) project. This is significant given that when preliminary findings were announced in London in 2002, India dismissed the data as an attempt by the West to link the cloud with pollution generated in India, a pressure tactic to force New Delhi to accept commitments under the Kyoto protocol. Since then, the data has been analysed by top experts in this field and the results are alarming, said V. Ramanathan, professor of climate and atmospheric science at UCSD's Scripps Institute of Oceanography, who is heading the study. More

Guest Editorial: Latin America Leans Left
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 15 -- The euphoria of the 1990s that so encouragingly engulfed Latin America has ended. With Presidents Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and Evo Morales of Bolivia and their almost daily double-barreled blasts of hyperbole and rhetoric, the idea of a resurgent left in Latin America taking over has become a commonplace assessment. Indeed, the just concluded election of socialist Michele Bachelet in Chile and the upswing in the polls for Peru's populist candidate Ollanta Humala would appear to confirm this notion. (Guest editorial by Jeremy M. Martin, director of energy programs at UCSD's Institute of the Americas.) More

Finding Seas Worthy:
Recipients of Pew Grants Make Plans
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 15 -- Enric Sala and Exequiel Ezcurra are men of the world, or at least the oceans. Both study the health of marine environments, are authorities in their particular niches and now have received Pew Fellowships, widely regarded as the most prestigious award in marine conservation. (Interview with Enric Sala, deputy director of the Center for Marine Diversity and Conservation at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More. Interview with Sala here.

Set Limits to Outside Work, Says UC Regent
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 15 -- The chairman of the University of California's board of regents wants to limit the number of corporate boards university leaders can serve on, a step that could directly affect UCSD's chancellor, Marye Anne Fox. UC Regents Chairman Gerry Parsky said the system needs to ensure that chancellors keep the university as their top priority and that any benefits board memberships may bring to the university aren'toutweighed by excessive demands on their time. More