A Sampling of Clips for 
February 26 - 28, 2005

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New Therapies May Expand AIDS Arsenal
ABC News, Feb. 25-Several new drugs work well in HIV patients who are beginning to run out of options because their virus has mutated into drug-resistant forms, researchers reported on Friday. (Refers to research led by Dr. Richard Haubrich, a professor of medicine at UCSD.) More

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Reuters, Feb. 25
Wired Magazine, Feb. 26
China View, Feb. 28
India Times, Feb. 27

Seducing Scientists
MSNBC, March 7-Three weeks ago, Larry Goldstein, a neurobiologist at UCSD, had a few choice words for Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who surprised the nation by coming out against a specific kind of stem-cell research. The words were: "Thank you." More

Ovary Syndrome Ups Risk for Liver Disease
Forbes, Feb. 25-Women with a hormone-linked condition called polycystic ovary syndrome may also be at increased risk for liver disease, according to a new study led by Jeffrey Schwimmer of UCSD. More

Docs Weigh Super-Aids
New York Daily News, Feb. 26-The world's foremost AIDS experts wrapped up their annual conference Friday with the jury still out on a key question: Is the virulent, potentially new HIV strain found in a 46-year-old New York man the beginning of a new AIDS epidemic or is it an isolated case? (Quote by Douglas Richman, an AIDS expert at UCSD.) More

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Houston Chronicle, Feb. 27
Monterey Herald, Feb. 26

Deadly Ignorance
Washington Post, Editorial, Feb. 27-The Bush administration is quietly extending a policy that undermines the global battle against AIDS. It is being pushed in this direction by Congress, notably by Rep. Mark Edward Souder (R-Ind.). But some administration officials zealously defend this policy error, claiming scientific evidence that doesn't exist. (Refers to research led by Steffanie A. Strathdee, a professor of medicine at UCSD.) More

Royal Astronomical Society
The London Times, Feb. 28-The Council of the Royal Astronomical Society has awarded the Gold Medal for Astronomy to Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, emeritus professor at UCSD and Geoffrey Burbidge, emeritus professor of Physics at UCSD. More

Oceans Apart
The Economist, Feb. 26-Some people do not believe global warming is happening; some believe it is happening, but that it is the result of natural variation; and some believe it is being caused by human activity. A paper presented to the AAAS by Tim Barnett, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, provides further evidence that the third camp is right. More

Jef Raskin, 61, Developer of Apple Macintosh
New York Times, Feb. 28-Jef Raskin, a computer technology pioneer who started the team that created the Macintosh computer, died Saturday at his home in Pacifica, Calif., at age 61. Raskin entered a graduate music program at UCSD in the 1970's, but stopped to teach art, photography and computer science there, working as an assistant professor from 1970 until 1974. More

At Last, a Price; Japan's Banking Mega-Merger
The Economist, Feb. 26-Ever since they announced their merger plan last July, shareholders in Japan's second-biggest bank, Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group, and the fourth-biggest, UFJ, have hounded executives with a single question: what's the price? (Refers to work by Takeo Hoshi, an economist at UCSD.) More

Tribe Looks Forward to the Past
Taipei Times, India, Feb. 27-For the Aymara people living in the Andes, the past lies ahead and the future lies behind, according to research led by Rafael Nunez, a cognitive scientist at UCSD. More

Issue of Illegals Roiling Arizona
San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 28-Ten years after Proposition 187 bitterly divided California over illegal immigration, Arizona has become the new battleground, closely watched by other states where immigration from Mexico is on the rise. (Quote by Wayne Cornelius, director of UCSD's Center for Immigration Studies.) More

Traffic Jam on Axon Highway Occurs Early in Alzheimer's
Innovations Report, Feb. 26-A blockage of the movement of chemical supplies and signals within the tube-shaped, brain-to-body cellular highways called axons, appears to occur much earlier than previously thought in the development of Alzheimer's disease, according to research by UCSD. More

UCSD Chancellor to be Inaugurated
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 26-Marye Anne Fox will be inaugurated Thursday as the seventh chancellor in UCSD's 45-year history. More

UCSD Opens Washington, D.C., Satellite Office
San Diego Business Journal, Feb. 28-The ceremonial first shovelful of dirt marking the start of construction of the Rady School of Management at UCSD was barely out of the ground before school officials celebrated another landmark event - a new satellite office in Washington, D.C. (Quotes by Robert S. Sullivan, dean of the Rady School and Keri Minehart, UCSD spokeswoman.) More

Schools Await Charter Decision
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 28-A confrontation between parents and the San Diego school board is expected tomorrow when trustees vote on competing proposals to reform four persistently underperforming schools in southeastern San Diego. More

Principles of Accounting
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 27-The drizzle that had dampened parts of San Diego had cleared, but it was still cool as Peregrine Systems' board of directors convened in the Azalea Room at the La Costa Resort and Spa. (Quote by Michael Willoughby, a professor of accounting at UCSD.) More