A Sampling of Clips for
January 09, 2004
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Launching
a Second Job a World Away
San Diego Union Tribune, Neil Morgan
Column, Jan. 9-Win Cox is one of the bold ones
who startle my generation by retiring at midlife. Such people
rarely slow down. Many have committed that next half of life
to pursue goals long embedded in their psyches. Now that she
is about to move up and on (she retires in March as associate
vice chancellor of UCSD), she leaves mellow
memories. On a get-acquainted walk around the campus 13 years
ago, I realized she was speaking of UCSD history
in a resoundingly present tense. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/metro/news_1m9morgan.html
Theory Given
On Burying Of Memories By People
New York Times, Jan. 9-Unwanted memories
can be driven from awareness, according to a team of researchers
who say they have identified a brain circuit that springs into
action when people deliberately try to forget something. The
findings, published today in the journal Science, strengthen
the theory that painful memories can be repressed by burying
them in the subconscious, the researchers say. (Quote by Larry
Squire M.D., a professor of psychiatry and neurosciences
at the University of California at San Diego.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/09/science/09MEMO.html
How President Bush's Proposed
Changes in Immigration will Affect Illegal Foreign Workers who
are Already in the US
National Public Radio, Jan. 8-President
Bush's plan will affect eight to 10 million now illegal foreign
workers already in the US. About half of them are from Mexico,
and initial reaction from south of the border is positive. (Q
& A with Wayne Cornelius, director of the
Center for US-Mexican Studies at UC San Diego.)
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Woman's
Skin Falls Off, Miraculously Survives
SanDiegoChannel.com, Jan. 8-A young
Ocean Beach woman survived a severe allergic reaction that had
University of California, San Diego Regional
Burn Center staff scrambling to save her life. By all accounts,
Sarah Yeargain, shouldn't be alive. But she is and some are
calling it a medical miracle. (Quote by Daniel Lozano
M.D., a physician at the UCSD Regional Burn
Center.)
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/health/2751809/detail.html
Similar
article appeared in:
BBC News (London), Jan. 9
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3383581.stm
Schwarzenegger Pushing to Raise College
Fees 10% to 44%
Los Angeles Times, Jan. 8-Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger plans to propose a 10% fee increase for Californians
attending college at the University of California and California
State University and a fee hike of up to 40% for graduate students
at the universities, sources familiar with the governor's budget
said Wednesday. At the same time, the budget is expected to
contain reductions in college financial aid for students from
moderate-income families.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-budget8jan08,1,7086183,print.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Songbirds
Duet to their Own Beat
The Guardian (London), Jan. 8-The
synchronised rhythms of South American ovenbirds may be driven
by basic physics rather than musical talent, say researchers
Rodrigo Laje of City University in Buenos Aires and Gabriel
Mindlin of the University of California at
San Diego. The thrush-sized Hornero (Furnarius rufus)
is common to Brazil and Argentina and famed for its oven-shaped
nest.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/dispatch/story/0,12978,1117846,00.html
2 Scripps Hospitals to
Limit Medi-Cal Cases
San
Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 9-In what might be the
start of a statewide revolt, Scripps Encinitas and Scripps Memorial
La Jolla hospitals will soon stop accepting non-emergency Medi-Cal
patients because of a new freeze on state reimbursement. Scripps'
notice puts some hospitals, such as UCSD Medical
Center and Scripps Chula Vista, in a special bind because if
they say no to Medi-Cal, they lose millions in extra federal
dollars granted to hospitals where 25 percent of the patient
mix is low income. Instead, they will be forced to absorb other
hospitals' share of low-paying Medi-Cal patients. (Quote by
Thomas Moore M.D., UCSD director
of obstetrics and gynecology, and Leslie Franz,
director of health sciences communications at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/news/news_1n9medical.html
Bush Worker
Plan Applauded, Assailed
Newsday, Jan. 9-The Bush immigration
reform will fan competition between groups of low-wage workers,
undermining the advancement of African-Americans, Puerto Ricans
and other legal U.S. residents from economically depressed groups,
critics of the recent Bush proposal say. The Bush plan would
allow foreign workers to enter the country and take unfilled
jobs here, as long as American employers first offered the jobs
to U.S. citizens by posting them on a government Web site. (Quote
by Gordon Hanson, an economist at the University
of California, San Diego and the director of the Center
for U.S.-Mexico Studies.)
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usside093618769jan09,0,6297341.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines
Judge Suggests Bay Area
Sites
Modesto
Bee, Jan. 9-Scott Peterson's trial appears headed
to the Bay Area after a judge ruled Thursday that massive pretrial
publicity would preclude a fair trial in Stanislaus County.
Much of Thursday's hearing was dominated by experts called to
address whether Stanislaus County residents could give Peterson
a fair trial. One of those experts, Ebbe Ebbesen,
a psychology professor at the University of California
at San Diego, maintained that "it would be very
easy" to get a fair jury in Stanislaus County.
http://www.modbee.com/local/story/7981054p-8852383c.html
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article appeared in:
Sacramento Bee, Jan. 9
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/8067769p-9000406c.html
Anger with Bush Fuels Democratic Race
San
Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 8-More than in any election
in memory - more than when Richard Nixon was decried as "Tricky
Dick" by many Democrats or Franklin D. Roosevelt outraged
many Republicans - has anger at a sitting president fueled a
presidential campaign than this one. And no candidate better
exploits the anger than Iowa Democrat Howard Dean, who rarely
misses an opportunity to outline the ways he believes the president
has divided the nation and promises to be the anti-Bush. (Quote
by Sam Popkin, a political science professor
at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20040108-1601-cnsanger.html
Librarians
to Tackle Issues During Convention
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 9-The
convention of the American Library Association, being held in
San Diego through next Wednesday, is expected to be a noisy
one as members tackle controversial subjects involving Cuban
libraries and the Patriot Act. (Quote by James Jacobs,
a government information librarian at the University
of California, San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/metro/news_1m9library.html
