A Sampling of Clips for
February 24, 2004
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Lifting
the Veils of Autism, One by One by One
New York Times, Feb. 24-Sixty years
after it was first identified, autism remains one of the most
puzzling of childhood disorders. Its cause or causes are still
unknown. But in recent years, investigators have begun to dislodge
some of its secrets. In a 2003 study in The Journal of the American
Medical Association, Eric Courchesne M.D.,
a professor of neuroscience at the University of California
at San Diego, reported that at birth, the heads of
infants with autism were smaller than normal, but then showed
"sudden and excessive" growth in size from 1 to 2
months and from 6 to 14 months. By adolescence, however, the
children's brains were the same size as those of other children
or slightly smaller.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/24/health/psychology/24AUTI.html
Scientist
Says "Asian Brown Cloud" Threatens Gulf
Reuters, Feb. 22-A body of pollution
which has been identified in the skies across Asia is now threatening
to engulf the Middle East and make the planet a drier place,
a leading environmental scientist said on Tuesday. UCSD
researcher Veerabhadran Ramanathan, who led
1999 research into what was dubbed the "Asian Brown Cloud",
said there was evidence the Gulf region was being sucked into
a global pollution circuit moving several kilometres (miles)
above ground.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L24293226.htm
How Reliable
Are Electronic Voting Machines?
TheSanDiegoChannel.com, Feb. 23-San
Diego is just days away from casting votes in its first electronic
election. And who can forget why the federal government required
the conversion to paperless terminals? Two words -- hanging
chad. The county has already spent $30 million for its new touch-screen
voting machines made by an Iowa-based company called Diebold.
The San Diego County registrar of voters assures the system
is reliable; however, many have their concerns including University
of California, San Diego computer security expert Yoshi
Kohno and three colleagues who studied the Diebold
voting system last year.
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/politics/2867864/detail.html
Macrobiotics
Dieters Stick With Carbs
Newsday, Feb. 23-In an age of low-carb
diets and high-protein energy bars, Michael Rossoff is an anomaly.
In his world, vegetables reign over excessive meat. He does
not "got milk" -- and counsels his clients to do the
same. For more than three decades, the respected whole foods
counselor has practiced macrobiotics -- a diet embraced by health-conscious
eaters ranging from Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna to yogis and
cancer patients. Macrobiotics has become so popular among cancer
patients that it is also known as "the anti-cancer diet."
And it's being studied by institutions such as the University
of California, San Diego Cancer Center.
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/health/wire/sns-ap-fit-macrobiotics,0,1835503
.story?coll=sns-ap-health-headlines
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Associated Press, Feb. 24
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Kansas City Star,
Feb. 23
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/8021578.htm
Miami Herald,
Feb. 23
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/8021578.htm
Palm Beach Post,
Feb. 23
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/health/content/shared/health/ap/ap_story.html/
Health/AP.V6617.AP-FIT-Macrobiotic.html
Sarasota Herald Tribune,
Feb. 23
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040223/APN/402230813
San Jose Mercury News,
Feb. 23
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/8021578.htm
UC Names
First Woman as Top Academic Official
San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 24-The
chancellor of UC Santa Cruz, a nationally recognized leader
in science and higher education policy, was appointed Monday
as the first woman provost of the University of California system.
M.R.C. Greenwood, 60, was appointed by the UC Board of Regents.
She also will serve as vice president for academic affairs.
"The provost job is really my sidekick, an alter ego so
that she and I can debate and construct and plan for the future,"
said Robert Dynes, who became president in
October after serving as chancellor of UC San Diego.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/24/BAGQG56N8V1.DTL
Build Bridges, Not Walls
Chicago
Tribune, Opinion, Feb. 22- In a 1923 polemic,
Ze'ev Jabotinsky, pioneer of revisionist Zionism, insisted upon
the use of force to break Arab resistance to Jewish settlement
of Palestine, an imperative he cast in metaphorical terms as
"The Iron Wall." Rising upon the Palestinian landscape
in a cloak of concrete and concertina wire, the wall erected
by Jabotinsky's modern-day political progeny in Israel admits
to a conflict over territory and rights of citizenship, communicating
a stark asymmetry of power. (Article written by Gary
Fields, a professor of communications at the University
of California, San Diego.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/perspective/chi-0402220391feb22,1,5949964.story?coll=chi-newsopinionperspective-hed
Feel the
Synergy: Brazil Seeks Out San Diego as Tech Ally
San Diego Business Journal, Feb. 23-Former
secretary of state Madeleine Albright was in town Feb. 13 to
share her perspectives on present and past foreign policy in
a publicly televised discussion with two leading international
affairs experts from the UCSD's Graduate School
of International Relations and Pacific Studies. Ambassador Jeffrey
Davidow, a career diplomat, professor, and president
of the Institute of the Americas, and Susan Shirk,
a former deputy assistant secretary of state under Albright
and current professor of Chinese politics, as well as members
of the public in attendance, engaged Albright on a wide range
of topics.
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Gender Gap
Is Still a Problem - Especially in San Diego
San Diego Business Journal, Feb. 23-San
Diego's transformation from a sleepy, surfside military town
into one of the world's fastest-growing high-tech and biotech
centers has drawn many admirers. But when it comes to closing
the gender gap in executive and board positions in these industries,
San Diego apparently has little to brag about. A 2003 study
presented in January by UC San Diego Athena,
a local group for executive women, looked at leadership roles
of women in 35 publicly traded San Diego firms. The study found
their numbers ranked well below the national average.
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New Tech
Ideas Get Airing at UCSD Session
San Diego Business Journal, Feb. 23-The
engineering school at UC San Diego will introduce
the public to several of today's new ideas during a daylong
session Feb. 27. The Jacobs School of Engineering hosts its
annual Research Review from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday in the Price
Center on the UCSD campus.
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Community
College Offers Low-Hassle Way to Further Education
The Desert Sun, Feb. 24- It's crunch
time for high school juniors on the road to four-year colleges.
But while some high school students agonize over SAT scores,
soaring tuition costs and tightening admission pools, the others
have an alternate plan: community college. High school counselors
across the valley give reasons why this might be a smart choice
for many, especially when UC's offer transfer programs such
as UC San Diego's Transfer Admission Guarantee.
http://www.thedesertsun.com/news/stories2004/features/20040224015547.shtml#
