A Sampling of Clips for February 21^st, 2008

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UCSD Big-time in Books, So Why Not in Basketball, Too?
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Feb. 21 -- Chris Carlson has enough vision to see the day when UCSD will be playing Division I college basketball. UCSD was founded in 1960, so it's a baby. But it hasn't crawled in quite a while. It's been running. More

'People Are Deeply Mysterious'
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 21 -- Kim Rubinstein, who has headed the undergraduate acting program at UCSD since last spring and makes her Old Globe directing debut this week with Richard Greenberg's “The American Plan.” More

Healing Hearts
Today’s Local News, Feb. 21 – Leslie Broch relishes each moment with her daughters. The only indication that Amelia and Sophie’s childhood has been anything but perfectly healthy are the thin scars that run down the middle of their chests. Each girl was born with a heart defect, resulting in two open heart surgeries for Amelia and one for Sophie. The twins were born at the UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest.
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Marine Reserves: Ocean Wilderness in Our Own Backyard
KFMB, Feb. 20 -- The San Diego Underwater Ecological Reserve is just one of a rapidly growing number of marine parks being created in Southern California. Doctor Paul Dayton from Scripps Institution of Oceanography studies the plants and animals that call the reserve home, and he's looking for better ways to protect the habitat. More

ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research
Chemical and Engineering News, Feb. 11 -- A couple of decades ago, the idea that computers could predict the nanosecond-scale dynamics of proteins was almost unfathomable. But now, chemists have sophisticated computational methods that make it possible to design groundbreaking drugs, thanks in large part to the work of J. Andrew McCammon, Joseph E. Mayer Chair of Theoretical Chemistry at UCSD. More