A Sampling of Clips for 
January 06, 2006

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Governor Proposes Massive
Bond to Build Schools, Roads
Contra Costa Times, Jan. 6-Attempting to rekindle his image as a bipartisan populist, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today urged cooperation among lawmakers and proposed a sweeping $222 billion public works program that would require the largest bond package in state history. (Quote by Thad Kousser, an assistant professor of political science at UCSD.) More

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NBC San Diego, Jan. 6

Reaction to State of the State Speech
San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 6-Californians comment on Gov. Schwarzenegger's recent State of the State speech. (Quote by Thad Kousser, an assistant professor of political science at UCSD.) More

Kids on the Witness
Stand Likely to Tell the Truth
Pregnancy and Baby, Jan. 5-Children on the witness stand are likely to tell the truth about a parental transgression - even when their parents have asked them to lie - according to new research conducted at UCSD, the McGill University and Queens University in Canada. More

Autism Linked to Mirror Neuron Dysfunction
Pregnancy and Baby, Jan. 5-Seeing is doing - at least it is when mirror neurons are working normally. But in autistic individuals, say researchers from UCSD, the brain circuits that enable people to perceive and understand the actions of others do not behave in the usual way. More

Book Covers Plague, Mayans and Mysticism
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 6-Marc André Meyers spent nearly two years buried in pages of microscopic extra-terrestrial life and worldwide disasters. The UCSD professor is the author of "Mayan Mars," a science fiction thriller about one man's attempt to stop mutated Martian viruses from coming to Earth in the form of a killer plague. More

Judge Bars Publication of Blood Project
CBS News, Jan. 6-A judge has barred a newspaper from publishing information obtained under the California Public Records Act about a synthetic blood substitute undergoing testing, saying it would compromise the drug maker's trade secrets. (Mentions UCSD.) More

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San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 5
ABC News, Jan. 5

He Had an Impact, Heh Heh
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 6-There's a fine line between brilliance and stupidity, and between the hallowed halls of academia and an animated MTV series that both celebrated and mocked idiocy as a staple of American life. Few have walked that line as well or profited as much as Mike Judge, the former San Diego blues-band bassist and University of California San Diego physics student who created "Beavis and Butt-head" nearly 15 years ago - and with it one of the most popular series in the history of MTV. More

Bush to Focus on Healthy
Economy in Effort to Recharge his Agenda
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 6-Hoping to turn the page on a dismal year, President Bush will launch a campaign today to reinvigorate his agenda by delivering a major speech in Chicago touting the country's robust economy. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a political scientist at UCSD.) More