A Sampling of Clips for 
February 04, 2003

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First mission shaped decisions in last
Washington Post, Feb. 4, Pg. 1 – In what was to be Columbia’s last mission, engineers reached the same conclusion that they had during the first and others: Although there was a “potential for a large damage area to the tile,” according to a NASA flight report released yesterday, the spacecraft was not at serious risk. (Quotes UCSD physicist Michael Wiskerchen).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21162-2003Feb3.html

Related article appeared in:
Newsday, Feb. 4
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-hstile0204.story

For students, a special loss
Washington Post, Feb. 4 – The nation continues to mourn David Brown and the space shuttle Columbia’s six other crew members, but the tragedy took on deeply personal meaning in schools with ongoing connections to the astronauts and the space program. (Mentions that an elementary school was named after UCSD physics professor Sally Ride).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20969-2003Feb3.html

Flying through a neon tube
Los Angeles Times, Commentary, Feb. 4 – UCSD physics professor Sally Ride explains the risks that every astronaut faces during a flight. “There is no astronaut in the nation who is not well aware of the delicate nature of the flight,” says Ride.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-ride4feb04.story

NASA chief must become detective
Orlando Sentinel, February 2 – Sean O’Keefe, the chief of NASA, is at the center of the storm that is certain to consume NASA for months. The agency’s focus has shifted from how to keep costs down to examining why a spacecraft more than two decades old broke apart while re-entering the atmosphere. (Quotes Charles Kennel, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and chairman of the NASA Advisory Council).
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/custom/space/orl-asecssokeefe02020203feb02.story

Latinos transforming a land and 2 languages
San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 4, Pg. 10 – UCSD ethnic studies professor Ana Celia Zentella is studying code-switching in New York City. Now that corporate America has discovered “Spanglish,” a blending of Spanish and English, one wonders what other linguistic permutations are evolving as Latinos, who have made the United States the fifth-largest Spanish-speaking nation in the world, adapt to the culture, as the culture adapts to them.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/02/04/DD50169.DTL

From Writing to Research to Surgery; Anthony DeMaria touts more titles than will fit on a business card
San Diego Metropolitan Magazine, Feb. Issue -- UCSD's Anthony DeMaria is profiled.
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Dirty Bay Self-Cleans
San Diego Reader, January 30 – Scripps Institution of Oceanography researcher Dimitri Deheyn conducted research in San Diego Bay that challenges some prevailing wisdom regarding pollution in the bay.
http://www.sdreader.com/php/cityshow.php3?id=C013003

Employer-aided housing plan in San Diego urged to help recruit workers
San Diego Union Tribune, Feb. 4 – UCSD was among the employers represented yesterday at a meeting hosted by Fannie Mae and the San Diego Housing Commission, which are jointly pitching an employer-assisted housing program they believe will help businesses recruit and retain employees.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/tue/business/news_1b4workforce.html

Food fight
San Diego Union Tribune, Feb. 4 -- Article reviews the debate over genetically engineered foods and focuses on the Salk Institutes' David Shubert, who recently wrote a commentary in the journal Nature Biotechnology. The article notes 18 scientists from UCSD, the Scripps Research Institute and the Salk Institute "signed a harshly worded letter to the editor rebutting Shubert's essay.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/tue/business/news_mz1b4foodfig.html

Deploying Marine leaving sperm behind in cryobank
Copley News Service, Feb. 3 – Several dozen officers and enlisted personnel in Southern California have found cryobanks where they can have their sperm preserved. (Quotes Gabriel Garzo, medical director of Reproductive Partners-UCSD Regional Fertility Center).
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