A Sampling of Clips for 
January 14, 2004

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University of California Documents Detail Investment Workings
San Jose Mercury News, Jan. 14-The University of California could have earned up to $4.8 billion more on its investments for retirees during the past decade simply by outsourcing them to good advisers. And when a UC regents' committee decided to do just that by firing the university's internal investment staff, it buried the announcement by timing it for Election Day on Nov. 5, 2002 -- hoping the media would have their hands full with other news. Those are some of the key revelations that came to light Tuesday in documents released to the Mercury News after a state Supreme Court ruling. (Quote by Bruce Lehman, a a professor of international relations and pacific studies at the University of California at San Diego.)
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/7707439.htm

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Bush's Immigration Reform
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Jan. 14-Both advocates and opponents of President Bush's new immigration reform assume that it will be wildly popular among migrant workers as well as the U.S. employers who hire them. But assuming simply that "if we build it, they will come" is a leap of faith. Undoubtedly, there will be plenty of takers among undocumented migrants, especially those already working in the United States. (Article written by Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/opinion/news_1e14cornel.html

The Hand is Quicker than the Tongue
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 14-For hearing and deaf children, the ability to gesture tends to develop ahead of words. Babies can wave bye-bye to Grandma months before they can talk, for instance. In interviews last fall, Elizabeth Bates M.D., one of the leading researchers in the field and the director of the Center for Research in Language at UCSD, talked about the development of this type of communication. (Bates died in mid-December.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_1c14gesture.html

Da Silva, Chavez Challenge Free Trade Benefits at Americas Summit
Voice of America News, Jan. 13-President Bush and the leaders of 33 other Western Hemisphere nations met at the special Summit of the Americas in Monterrey, Mexico, where trade and efforts to reduce poverty top the agenda. There is disagreement between the United States and some nations in the region over what should take priority. (Quote by Richard Feinberg, a professor of international relations and pacific studies at the University of California at San Diego.)
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?ObjectID=29C5103D-EBC6-41E3-89ECE6B9CA37BBD8&Title=Da%20Silva%2C%20Chavez%20%20Challenge%20%20Free%20Trade%20Benefits%20at%20Americas%20Summit&db=voa

Unspoken Fear
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 14-Until quite recently, there seemed little anyone could say about children that didn't speak in classroom situations, except that he (or she) was extraordinarily shy or obstinate, maybe both. An alternative explanation - a psychological condition called "selective mutism" -wasn't well known. It still isn't. This weekend, researchers and parents of children with selective mutism will gather in San Diego to exchange news and advice about helping children with SM who find themselves unable to speak outside of narrow, select circumstances. (Quote by Murray Stein M.D., a professor of psychiatry at UCSD.) http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_1c14mutism.html

Specialized Services
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 13-Professionally speaking, Sadanand Singh is going for his third reincarnation. After a long academic career as a professor of speech and hearing sciences, Singh made a small fortune as a publisher of technical books in the field of communication sciences and disorders. His latest business venture, called ContentScan, is developing a series of highly specialized online libraries. (Quote by Charles Elkan, a UCSD associate professor of computer science and engineering.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/tue/business/news_1b13dome.html

Delighting in the Dance
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 13- This month, Areito Borincano - a group that promotes understanding and awareness of Puerto Rican culture - brings bomba to two major, annual events: the Nations of San Diego International Dance Festival and the San Diego Multicultural Festival. With the Puerto Rican community's presence dwarfed by larger Latino communities, Areito Borincano's performances are for many San Diegans their first introduction to Puerto Rican culture, and their upcoming UCSD performances coincide with a renewed enthusiasm for bomba on the island.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040113-9999_1c13puerto.html

Does City's Shape Doom Light-Rail Transit?
San Diego Union-Tribune, Neil Morgan Column, Jan. 14- Alan Hoffman has likely studied more modern transit systems worldwide than anyone else in this region. For a city as spread out as San Diego, he favors flex trolleys that look like trains with rubber tires and move at high speeds on committed busways. He believes SANDAG's recent decision to use fixed rail in building the $760 million UCSD-University City (Mid-Coast) line is a blunder that may represent the bias of old-guard transit leaders, including former state Sen. Jim Mills, who founded San Diego's trolley system and led the former Metropolitan Transit Development Board until 1994.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/metro/news_1m14morgan.html