A Sampling of Clips for
February 28, 2003
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Seible new dean at UCSD
San
Diego Daily Transcript, Feb. 28 – University
of California, San Diego appointed Frieder
Seible, founding chairman of the Department of Structural
Engineering, to be the dean of the UCSD Jacobs
School of Engineering, officials said Thursday. The University
of California Board of Regents has yet to approve the appointment.
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UCSD Medical Center names
new chief executive
San
Diego Union Tribune, Feb. 25 – UCSD
Medical Center reached across the country to tap a top executive
of the Duke University hospital system as its next chief executive.
The local medical center said Richard Liekweg,
now head of Durham Regional Hospital, owned by Duke in North
Carolina, will take over as chief executive March 24. (Quotes
Edward Holmes, UCSD's vice
chancellor for health sciences).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20030125-9999_1b25ucsd.html
Do record snowstorms and
global warming mesh?
San
Diego Union Tribune, OPINION, Feb. 26 –
Tim Barnett, a research marine physicist of
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, writes
that confusing short-term weather events with real changes in
long-term global climate is a common mistake. When one looks
at all the facts from an objective point of view, it becomes
clear to a high statistical certainty that we are already seeing
the impacts of global warming.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/opinion/news_mz1e26threle.html
Powell's Asia trip: success
on Iraq, failure on N. Korea
Straits
Times (Singapore), Feb. 28 – During his
four-day trip to East Asia, United States Secretary of State
Colin Powell seemed to have achieved one of his goals: that
of ensuring that China would not veto a US-sponsored Iraq resolution
in the United Nations Security Council. But he failed to persuade
the Chinese and the South Koreans to support the Bush administration's
North Korea strategy. In fact, both China and South Korea urged
Mr. Powell to begin direct talks with North Korea about its
nuclear program, an idea that the Bush administration has rejected
repeatedly. (Quotes Susan Shirk, professor
of political science at the University of California,
San Diego).
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Underachievement is universal
among adults with ADHD
Ottawa
Citizen, Feb. 28 – Adults whom psychiatrists
say have ADHD might charitably be described as "organizationally
challenged." They have lightning-short attention spans
and perhaps a propensity to engage their mouths before their
brains. Patients include every sex, race, age and socioeconomic
status, and, surprisingly, many successful professionals, such
as chief executives, doctors and lawyers. (Quotes Dr. David
Feifel, director of the Adult ADHD Clinic at the University
of California, San Diego School of Medicine).
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Telling words, as told
by Holtz, Will, Jacobs
San
Diego Union Tribune, Feb. 28 – Neil Morgan
notes that Irwin Jacobs returned from a trip from China this
week to welcome UC Regents to the UCSD campus.
John Moores, Peter Preuss and John Davies attended the event.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/morgan/20030228-9999_6m28morgan.html
'Brown vs.
Board's' grim history
Los
Angeles Times, Book Review, Feb. 28 – The
court's command in Brown vs. Board of Education to end segregation
by law in American public schools, rendered on May 17, 1954,
would set this race-divided nation on the path that would lead,
at long last, to unity. But the thorough integration of black
and white children in the same public schools was not achieved.
How the Brown decision came about, and why its promise was not
kept, is the subject of Peter Irons' limpid
if melancholic "Jim Crow's Children." (Quotes Peter
Iron, professor of political science and director of
the Earl Warren Civil Rights Project at UC San Diego).
http://www.calendarlive.com/books/reviews/cl-et-book28feb28.story
