A Sampling of Clips for
February 07, 2003
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Loss of
the shuttle: Liabilities
New York Times, Feb. 7 – Investigators
seeking to understand what destroyed the space shuttle Columbia
are using powerful computers and wind-tunnel models to stimulate
the doomed craft and the forces at play as it hurtled toward
earth. (Quotes CAL –(IT)2 director and UCSD
science professor Larry Smarr).
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/07/national/nationalspecial/07MODE.html
The fastest
worm ever
Science Magazine, Feb. 6 – A
study co-authored by David Moore at the San
Diego Supercomputer Center found that the Sapphire
worm that struck the Internet 2 weeks ago was the fastest spreading
computer infection in history.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2003/205/
Related
articles appeared in:
Washington
Post, Feb. 6
CNN,
Feb. 5
BBC
News, Feb. 3
Computer
Weekly, Feb. 3
Science
Daily, Feb. 3
Information
Week, Feb. 3
InfoWorld,
Feb. 3
The
Independent, (London),
Feb. 4
Reuters,
Feb 4
Forbes.com,
Feb. 4
Houston
Chronicle, Feb 5
ComputerWorld
(IDG News Service), Feb. 5
Deep-Sea
Bugs May Yield New Drugs
Science NOW, Jan. 28 -- A research
team led by William Fenical, marine chemist
at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, reported
the discovery of a marine counterpart to actinomycetes, a new
genus, Salinospora, that seem to have as much potential as its
terrestrial cousins did. From the sediments of five oceans,
the researchers isolated and tested hundreds of bacterial strains.
Their results were encouraging: 35% of the 100 strains tested
kill pathogenic bacteria and fungi, and a whopping 80% prevent
cancer-cell growth, the team recently reported in Applied and
Environmental Microbiology.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2003/128/3
Check up
Herald Sun (Melbourne), Feb. 7 –
UCSD researchers found Parkinson’s patients
who received a high dose of Co-enzyme Q10 – commonly found
in face creams – were significantly less impaired by the
condition than those who were on lower doses of the enzyme.
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UCSD physician
finds genetic link to pulmonary disease
San Diego Union Tribune, Thursday
Feb 6 - A team led by UCSD professor Patricia
Thistlethwaite has discovered important genetic clues
behind pulmonary hypertension, which causes one in every 100
deaths in the United States. Thistlethwaite's
report appears in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/thu/metro/news_2m6hyper.html
Related articles appeared
in:
Innovations
Report, Feb. 6
United Press International,
Feb. 7
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War or not,
bond prices could rise
San Diego Union Tribune, Feb. 6 --
Don Bauder's column on the forecast for bond prices includes
comments from two UCSD professors of economics,
James Hamilton and Ross Starr.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/bauder/20030206-9999_1b6bauder.html
Brave New
World Six years in the making, 'Nuevo California' takes a multiethnic
look at California's future...after the Big Quake
The San Diego Repertory Theatre will present a new work that
began with interviewing hundreds of people on both sides of
the border. Playwright Bernardo Solano and artistic director
Sam Woodhouse brought in writer Allan Havis, who directs the
Master's of Fine Arts program in playwriting at UCSD, to be
the "fresh eye" to cut and polish the script.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/thu/night_day/news_mz1w6nuevo.html
Medical
marijuana activist to accept a plea agreement from prosecutors
San Diego Union Tribune, Feb. 7 –
Steve McWilliams, a marijuana activist who was arrested on pot
charges will accept a plea agreement offered by prosecutors.
(Mentions UCSD research on the potential medical
benefits of marijuana).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/metro/news_7m7potplea.html
Article also appeared in:
Copley
News Service, Feb. 7
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