A Sampling of Clips for
February 05, 2003
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Worm breaks speed records
United Press International, Feb. 5
– The Sapphire of Slammer computer worm that attacked
the Internet recently was the fastest ever recorded, say UCSD
scientists.
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article appeared in:
San Diego Union Tribune, Feb. 5
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/20030205-9999_1b5worm.html
The immune
system's dark side
San Diego Union Tribune, Feb. 5 --
Growing evidence that inflammation may be at the root of many
chronic diseases could help in taming them. Joseph Witzum
of UCSD is studying how LDL, or low-density
lipoprotein, turns into bad cholesterol with the assistance
of the inflammatory response.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_mz1c5immune.html
Critics
aside, there's no denying shuttle advances
San Diego Union Tribune, Feb. 5 --
In an article covering the valuable technologies and innovations
that have been produced from NASA's shuttle program, Kim
Prisk, UCSD professor of physiology,
is quoted. Prisk has been associated with scientific experiments
on seven shuttle missions and said "the reason we do experiments
in space is not for people in space. What we learn up there
is applied down here.”
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_1c5space.html
A day later,
sense of loss lingers
North County Times, Feb. 3 –
Grief and a sense of loss accompanied many North County residents
Sunday as they went about their weekend rituals of worship and
recreation. (Quotes UCSD physics professor
Sally Ride and UCSD physicist
Michael Wiskerchen).
http://www.nctimes.net/news/2003/20030203/55129.html
So far,
El Niño fails to take us by storm
San Diego Union-Tribune, Weather Watch,
Feb. 5, Pg. 3 – The weather phenomenon adored by Southern
California rain lovers appears to have gone missing. The month
was the warmest January in San Diego history. The season total
of rainfall through Monday at Lindbergh Field was 2.67 inches,
less than half of normal. (Quotes Dan Cayan,
director of the Climate Research Division of the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_1c5weather.html
