A Sampling of Clips for
January 04, 2005
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Climate: The Debate is
Changing
UPI, Jan. 3-The global warming debate
will shift in the United States in 2005 because evidence that
the phenomenon is real has reached a crescendo. The catalyst
for the shift is not some esoteric discovery by an atmospheric
scientist, but a fairly simple paper by a history professor,
Naomi Oreskes of UCSD.
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Stem Cells
Have DNA Safety Mechanism
UPI, Dec. 27-Embryonic stem cells,
proto-cells that become the different cells in a baby, have
a safety mechanism to prevent passing on damaged DNA, UCSD
scientists report.
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Out of the Blue
Newsday, Jan. 2-It's whale watching
made easy in the waters of the north Pacific, where the ocean's
superstars put on quite a show. And now, visitors can have a
ringside seat. (Quote by Shelley Glenn Lee
of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
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These Days
KPBS, Jan. 3-On These Days, voters
in San Diego's 4th City Council district go to the polls this
week to select a successor to the late Charles Lewis. How would
the two candidates deal with the major problems now facing the
city? (Q & A with Michael Bernstein, UCSD
Historian and Economist and Steven Adler, Provost
of Earl Warren College at UCSD.)
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What Lies
Beneath
Technology Review, Jan. 4-The crustal
plates that lie beneath miles of ocean are in constant movement,
shifting imperceptibly every second. But the seismologists who
track them have had to rely on an investigative schedule dictated
by the calendar, rather than the clock. (Quote by John
Orcutt, deputy director of Scripps Institution
of Oceanography.)
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Parents
Campaign to Make Gompers a Charter School
Channel 10, San Diego, Jan. 3-Going
to college is a dream that many parents from Gompers Middle
School hope to live vicariously through their children. A push
to make Gompers a charter school, in partnership with UCSD,
could give those students the best chance for a higher education.
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San
Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 4
UC Shouldn't Care Where Kids are From
Ventura County Star, Jan. 3-How about
territorial admissions for the University of California? The
idea comes from a powerful Democratic state senator now running
for mayor of Los Angeles, but it sounds a lot like what the
National Basketball Association used to do.
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Old Sounds
Still Vibrate in Our Minds, if Not Our Ears
Indianapolis Star, Jan. 4- As technology
advances, more and more familiar noises -- the pop of flashbulbs,
the gurgle of coffee percolators, the clatter of home-movie
projectors -- are fading into oblivion. (Quote by Diana
Deutsch, a psychology professor at UCSD.)
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'Unusual'
Storms Drench County, with More to Come
Ventura County Star, Jan. 4-Ventura
County has been soaked with two to three times normal rainfall
for this time of year, with the latest storm felling trees,
slowing harvests, causing power outages and mudslides, and contributing
to car accidents. (Quote by Tim Barnett, a
research marine physicist at the Scripps Institution
of Oceanography.)
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