A Sampling of Clips for 
February 26, 2003

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$5 million gift donated to new Management School at the University of California, San Diego
Associated Press, Feb 25 - A $5 million gift has been donated to the new Management School at the University of California, San Diego. The donation from philanthropists Malin and Roberta Burnham will be used at the dean's discretion, meaning it could go toward faculty support, academic programming or building the school. (Quotes Robert S. Sullivan, founding dean of the Management School UCSD).
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San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 25
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20030225-9999_1m25grant.html

UCSD researcher gets grant
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb 25 - A researcher at UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering will receive more than $200,000 over three years to fund work that could lead to smoother video streaming on wireless handheld devices such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/20030225-9999_z1b25techbri.html

Samaritans give gift of life
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb 25 - The number of people donating their kidneys to someone they don't know has slowly grown from one person in 1998 to 49 last year, according to United Network for Organ Sharing, the federal agency that helps match and place organs. But the Samaritan kidney donor trend is not without controversy. As it has grown, so have ethical questions. (Quotes Dr. Robert Steiner, UCSD kidney transplant director).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20030225-9999_1m25kidney.html

Biotech meets Darwin
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb 25 - It's survival of the fittest for many private San Diego biotechnology companies as they wait – and hope – for more financing. Chimerix, a startup company formed in July around technology from the University of California San Diego, has applied for a $30 million federal grant to develop a smallpox vaccine that can be taken in pill form.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/20030225-9999_z1b25darwin.html

Experts meet for nation's first fire forecast
USA Today, Feb 25 - Specialists in climate prediction, fire behavior and forest "fuels" are meeting in Arizona to draft the first national forecast of wildfire danger for the summer fire season. Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography are one of many that attended the three-day workshop.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2003-02-24-fire-forecast-usat_x.htm

The Chinese Century?
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb 25 - University of California, San Diego Cal-(IT)2's Doug Ramsey and discount brokerage pioneer Jack White contend that China has all the ingredients to challenge American economic and technological power in the 21st Century.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/opinion/news_mz1e26white.html