A Sampling of Clips for 
January 12, 2005

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Dealing with Vision Loss
Forbes, Jan. 11-A UCSD program that educates people with advanced age-related macular degeneration about the disease and provides them with the skills to live with vision loss leads to lasting improvements in mood and function. (Quote by Stuart I. Brown, director of the Shiley Eye Center at UCSD.) More

NOAA Aims for Predicting Tsunamis
NPR, Jan. 11-Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have announced that their satellites captured pictures of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami that allow them to measure the height of the wave. (Refers to research conducted by David Sandwell at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

Malaria Makes Comeback in U.S.
Soldiers Returning from Afghanistan
Forbes, Jan. 12-Malaria, an old bug from past wars, is cropping up again in the U.S. military. (Quote by Dr. Joseph M. Vinetz, a malaria expert and a professor of medicine at UCSD.) More

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Do Pharmacy Errors Spike at Start of the Month?
Forbes, Jan. 11-Statistics suggest Americans are more likely to die at the start of each month than any other time, and now researchers led by UCSD professor David Phillips, think they've found one possible culprit: mistakes in prescription drug use. More

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Study: More Sunlight Means Better, More Sleep
NBC Channel 17, Jan. 12-New research suggests that the night owl syndrome might actually be a sleep disorder that could be corrected with a simple treatment. "Delayed sleep phase syndrome, that means a night owl," said the study's author, Dr. Daniel Kripke, a University of California-San Diego sleep researcher. "We think much of it is in the genes of the body's clock." More

RNAi Active in the Nucleus?
The Scientist, Jan. 11-A U.S. group says RNA interference takes place in the nucleus, but one expert is unconvinced. (Quote by David Looney, an associate professor at UCSD, who was not involved in the study.) More

Astronomers Concerned for Future of U.S. Space Science
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 12-Jeffrey Linsky sees the writing on the wall for American space science, and he fears its future could be written off by NASA's new mandate to send humans back to the moon and on to Mars. (Quote by Geoffrey Burbidge, an astronomer at UCSD.) More