A Sampling of Clips for
February 12, 2003
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Scientists
search oceans for sources of new medicines
National Public Radio, All Things Considered,
Feb. 11 – Scripps Institution of Oceanography
marine scientist William Fenical looks for
creatures in the mud on the sea floor. There, he’s finding
mud-loving bugs with some amazing properties. Fenical
has just discovered a new group of bacteria that produce a powerful
human antibiotic, and he found these bacteria living happily
in a silent dark world thousands of feet below the water’s
surface.
http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_953341.html
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UCSD’s
use of live dogs in laboratory decried
San Diego Union Tribune, Pg. 1, Feb.
12 – Dozens of doctors want the UCSD
School of Medicine to stop using live dogs as lab subjects that
are used and killed for first-year medical students. (Quotes
Lawrence Hansen, UCSD neurosciences
professor and spokesman for Doctors Against Dog Labs, UCSD
bioengineering professor GeertSchmid-Schoenbein,
health sciences communications director Leslie Franz,
and mentions UCSD Alzheimer’s researcher
Eliezer Masliah and UCSD anesthesiologist
Tony Yaksh).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20030212-9999_1n12meddogs.html
Article
also appeared in:
Copley News Service, Feb. 12
Related article appeared
in:
San Diego Union Tribune, Feb. 12
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/opinion/news_mz1e12hansen.html
2003's First
Rain Knocks Out Power, Causes Crashes
Los Angeles Daily News, Feb. 12 –
The first storm of the year pounded Southern California on Tuesday,
causing a nightmare for rush-hour commuters and knocking out
power to thousands of customers, proof to some experts that
El Nino is still here. (Quotes Dan Cayan, a
climate researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography).
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~1173590,00.html
Threat of
war shrouds Muslims’ holiest day
San Diego Union Tribune, Feb. 12 –
The imminent attack on Iraq shrouds Muslims’ celebrating
the holiest day of their religion. (Quotes Ahmed Shabaik,
a native Egyptian and an associate clinical professor of pathology
at UCSD).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20030212-9999_1m12muslim.html
Article
also appeared in:
Copley News Service, Feb. 12
There Needs
to Be a Renaissance in Science Education
San Diego Business Journal, Jan. 20-26
Issue -- Opinion piece written by William H. Rastetter, chairman
and CEO of IDEC Pharmaceuticals, on how schools, teachers and
parents need the help of the business community to enhance science
and math education. Mentions “BeWise” sponsored
trips to UCSD’s SuperComputer Center
and earthquake lab.
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People column
San Diego Business Journal, Jan. 20-26
Issue – The San Diego Supercomputer Center
has hired Alan R. Blatecky as executive director.
Blatecky serves on the advisory committees
of the Biomedical Informatics Research Network and the National
Earthquake Engineering Simulation Grid. …The Southeastern
Community Theatre has appointed UCSD professor
emeritus of theater, Floyd Gaffney as producing
artistic director.
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Clarification
San Diego Daily Transcript, Feb. 12
-- A previous story on local university endowments indicated
the UCSD Foundation pays 1 percent to use the
University of California's Treasurer's Office portfolio for
investment, but it actually pays 0.07 percent.
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