A Sampling of Clips for
January 07, 2005
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An Unsettled
Forecast for Global Warming
Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan.
7-Climate science, Doug Macdougall writes,
"is notoriously difficult, because there are so many interconnected
variables at work that cause and effect are often impossible
to discern with confidence." Those variables, which the
Scripps Institution of Oceanography professor
discusses in Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice
Ages, have bedeviled the debate over global warming from the
beginning.
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Rx Refill
Errors Deadliest at Beginning of Month
Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 7-When it
comes to getting prescriptions filled, the first few days of
the month are the most popular -- and the most dangerous, according
to new research. A study, led by UCSD sociologist
David Phillips, found that deaths due to medication
mistakes rise by as much as 25 percent above normal in the beginning
of the month.
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Stem Cell
Agency Begins Forming Itself
San Diego Daily Transcript, Jan. 6-The
committee charged with implementing California's $3 billion
stem cell research initiative began the laborious task Thursday
of setting up its new taxpayer-funded agency and fielded criticism
from open government advocates and opponents of the legislation.
Among those attending the meeting were four San Diegans including
Edward Holmes, Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences
and Dean of School of Medicine at UCSD, and
Leon Thal, chair of UCSD's
neuroscience department.
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Storm of
Troubles Filling San Diego's Sunny Skies
Cox News Service, Jan. 6-With its
stunning coastline, laid-back lifestyle and typically picture-perfect
weather, San Diego has claimed the moniker of "America's
Finest City." But there's trouble in paradise. (Quote by
Steve Erie, a UCSD political
science professor.)
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Say Goodbye to Rosacea;
Sea Buckthorn Oils Found to Help
Hamilton Mountain News, Canada, Jan.
6-Research has been ongoing to cure rosacea, and many people
find relief but others seem to be resistant to treatments. Dr.
Neal Bhatia, assistant clinical professor of
dermatology at the UCSD, has made a breakthrough
though, detecting both a factor and a treatment for sufferers,
which some are hailing as a miracle.
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San Francisco
Competes for Project Headquarters
San Francisco Examiner, Jan. 6-Mayor
Gavin Newsom would like to see California's new stem cell institute
make its home in San Francisco, but the rest of the state plans
on giving the mayor a run for his money. Newsom said last week
that San Franscisco is mainly competing with San Diego, including
UCSD, for the California Institute of Regenerative
Medicine's office headquarters.
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UCSD-TV's
"In the Shadow of White Mountain" on KCET in Los Angeles
KCET, Jan. 7-An excerpt of UCSD-TV's
documentary "In the Shadow of White Mountain" was
featured in KCET's magazine program "Life and Times"
on Monday, December 20 at 6:30PM.
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Oil Firm's
LNG Plan gets OK of Mexico
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 7-ChevronTexaco
yesterday announced it has received all the Mexican federal
approval needed to build its $650 million liquefied natural
gas project next to the Coronado Islands, off the Baja California
and San Diego County coasts. (Quote by Jeremy Martin,
director of the energy program at the Institute of the Americas
at UCSD.)
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Educators
Say Governor Broke a Deal on Funding
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 7-Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has shocked education groups by not only
breaking a deal that would give schools more money this year,
but also proposing to weaken the Proposition 98 school-funding
guarantee in the future.
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