A Sampling of Clips for 
February 16, 2005

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The Case of the Mutant AIDS Virus
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 16-On Friday, New York City health officials issued this chilling announcement: A man is infected with a form of the AIDS virus that is not only resistant to three of the four classes of anti-HIV drugs, it is apparently so virulent that it causes full-blown AIDS in a matter of weeks rather than the usual decade or more. It will be super-difficult to treat, and it may be a super-fast killer. (Refers to research by UCSD.) More

Revolutionary Major Set to be Born
Boston Globe, Feb. 16-Once the cutting-edge materials of engineering were steel girders, then transistors. And next, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is gambling, it will be DNA and cells - the stuff of life. (Quote by Geert W. Schmid-Schonbein, a professor at the Whitaker Institute of Biomedical Engineering at UCSD.) More

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'Fear' Mongering Crichton Wrong on Science
San Francisco Chronicle, Opinion, Feb. 16-Novelist Michael Crichton has been getting attention lately for his new novel, "State of Fear" -- No. 5 last week on the New York Times best-seller list -- which suggests there's no basis for concern over global climate change. (Article written by Naomi Oreskes, director of the science studies program and associate professor of history at UCSD.) More

UC Service Workers Underpaid, a Study Finds
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 16-A study by a nonprofit public interest group has concluded that thousands of University of California service workers earn too little to meet basic needs in the counties they work in. More

UCSD Volleyball Coach McFarland Resigns
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 16-After guiding the UCSD women's volleyball team for the past nine years, head coach Duncan McFarland has resigned, the university announced yesterday. More

Some Firms Sidestepping Options Rule
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 15-A growing number of companies, including San Diego's Ligand Pharmaceuticals, have moved to keep millions of dollars in expenses off their balance sheets by taking advantage of a loophole in a new accounting rule. (Quote by Michael Willoughby, an accounting professor at UCSD.) More

Questions Answered
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 9-Q & A column by Sherry Seethaler, a UCSD science writer and educator who answers science questions submitted by San Diego Union-Tribune readers. More

UCSD Hosts Panel on Post-9-11 Immigration, Human Rights
North County Times, Jan 13-Immigration experts and immigrant rights activists said Tuesday that immigrants are increasingly becoming "criminalized" by new legislation proposed and implemented in the name of national security since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The comments came during a round-table discussion Tuesday by experts and advocates at UCSD's Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, an immigration research organization on the La Jolla campus. More