A Sampling of Clips for 
January 05, 2006

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Loss of Gene Linked
to Spread of Childhood Cancer
ABC News, Jan. 4-Cancer researchers from the UCSD Medical Center and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital said on Wednesday that a gene which is usually missing in a common, aggressive childhood cancer suppresses the metastasis, or spread, of the disease to other parts of the body. More

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Ocean Currents Flip Out
Nature, Jan. 4-The circulation of the deep oceans reversed abruptly some 55 million years ago, according to a study of fossilized sea creatures by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. This rings alarm bells about today's climate change, because the reversal coincided with a period of global warming driven by greenhouse gases. More

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Weakened Schwarzenegger
Faces Re-Election
Los Angeles Times, Jan. 4-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger enters 2006 in a politically weakened position few could have imagined when he took office a little more than two years ago, the result of a disastrous shift to the right in a state dominated by Democrats and independents. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a professor of political science at UCSD.) More

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Laser Sheds Light on Stroke Patients
UPI, Jan. 4-A technique that creates and images blood clots in the brain may help researchers understand the small strokes implicated in many forms of dementia. UCSD researchers used a laser to trigger the formation of individual blood clots in tiny arteries of the brains of anesthetized rats to monitor the resulting changes in blood flow. More

Looks Like End
of Sharon Era, Start of Confusion
San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 5-The probable exit of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon from the political stage of the Middle East would leave a vacuum so big that in the near term only confusion could fill it, regional experts said Wednesday. (Quote by Gershon Shafir, a professor of sociology at UCSD.) More

Yule Gifts, and then Much More
San Diego Union-Tribune, Diane Bell Column, Jan. 5- Without the help of employees from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a National City mom and her three children might be homeless today. The saga began a few days before Christmas when Scripps employees asked Children's Hospital to suggest a family they might "adopt" for Christmas. More