A Sampling of Clips for 
January 15 - 18, 2005

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La Jolla Subscribes to a Full-Year Plan
Los Angeles Times, Jan. 16-The bold La Jolla Playhouse raises the curtain on a new year and a new era with its freshly completed $16.5 million complex. (Quote by Walt Jones, chairman of UCSD's Department of Theatre and Dance.) More

Submarine Crash Shows Navy Had Gaps in Mapping System
New York Times, Jan. 15-Sailors on the San Francisco, a nuclear-powered attack submarine, had just finished cleaning the vessel last Saturday when they crashed head-on into a undersea mountain that was not on the charts. (Quote by Dr. David T. Sandwell, a geophysics professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

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Florida Ledger, Jan. 16

At Magnet Schools, Getting In Is 1st Test
Los Angeles Times, Jan. 16-Thousands of parents vying to get their children into some of Los Angeles' most sought-after public schools find themselves caught in a byzantine bureaucratic process with strict racial quotas and almost insurmountable odds. (Quote by Julian Betts, a professor of economics at UCSD.) More

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KTLA, Jan. 16

Treatments Need not be Risky, Arthritis Experts Say
Copley News, Jan. 16-As if the pain of sore and swollen joints isn't bad enough, now arthritis sufferers have to endure the confusion and frustration of having some of their most effective pain relievers declared risky. (Quote by Dr. Gary Firestein, director of the UCSD division of rheumatology, allergy and immunology.) More

Being A Night Owl Could Be Genetic
Denver Channel, Jan. 18-Some of us are born "night owls," and UCSD researchers are trying to see if they can find the gene that resets the body clock. (Quote by Dr. Daniel Kripke, a sleep expert at UCSD.) More

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WFTV Channel 9, Florida, Jan. 18

Uncovering Secrets of Abalone Body Armor
Innovations Report, Jan. 17-Engineering researchers at UCSD are using the shell of a seaweed-eating snail as a guide in the development of a new generation of bullet-stopping armor. More

Hacker Breaches Computers that
Store UCSD Extension Student, Alumni Data
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 18-A hacker breached the security of two UCSD computers that stored the Social Security numbers and names of about 3,500 students and alumni of UCSD Extension. More

Protein Structure Wed to Dynamics
Chemical & Engineering News, Jan. 17-A new method for simultaneously determining the structure of a protein and the mobility and range of motion of its backbone and side chains has been developed by a British research team. (Quote by J. Andrew McCammon, a chemistry professor at UCSD.) More

Politics is Never Far from Taiwanese Music
Taiwan News, Jan. 17-From Peking Opera to underground rhythms, Taiwan's musical culture has long been influenced by how society feels about politics. Nancy Guy, a professor at UCSD, who has studied the ties between Taiwan's politics and music for decades, discussed the connection and other aspects of the local music scene with the Taiwan News during her recent visit to Taipei. More

Gene Doping Looms as Next Sports Edge
Baltimore Sun, Jan. 16-Sometime in the near future, an athlete might walk into a lab and ask for an injection that, with the prick of the needle, will bring a world of possibility. (Quote by Dr. Theodore Friedmann, director of the gene therapy program at UCSD.) More

Resilient World Growth Flags Long-Run Oil Strength
Daily Times, Pakistan, Jan. 16-The world economy's surprising resilience to oil's record-breaking rally has strengthened signals in long-term crude futures projecting a renewed run of rising demand and high prices. (Quote by James Hamilton, a professor of economics at UCSD.) More

Weather Forces Collided to Create Epic Storm Week
Modesto Bee, Jan. 16-It wasn't the perfect storm, but California's five-day siege of rain, snow and calamity came frighteningly close. (Quote by Mike Dettinger, a hydroclimatologist with Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

New Hope for Coral Reefs Amid Warming Oceans
Contra Costa Times, Jan. 16-For some time, scientists have predicted that the world's coral reefs will be among the first ecosystems to suffer devastating damage from global warming. (Quote by Nancy Knowlton, an expert on corals who directs the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
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Theater, Inc.
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 16-San Diego may have its financial scandal and the ups and downs of its sports franchises, but its stage reputation grows ever greater, with a glow that stretches all the way to Broadway. With yesterday's open house at the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Center, La Jolla Playhouse finally has unveiled a permanent home tailored to director Des McAnuff's vision of regional theater as research lab. More

City's Homeland Security Director
Searching for Affordable Technology
San Diego Daily Transcript, Jan. 13-Augie Ghio, the city of San Diego's director of homeland security, is trying to establish a technology committee led by local academia to identify affordable solutions for the region. Ghio has asked Bob Welty, director of homeland security projects at San Diego State University's Research Foundation, to help initiate the effort. Welty said the committee would build off work already begun by the San Diego Regional Network for Homeland Security, a collaboration between SDSU and the University of California, San Diego that got its start in 2002. More

Director Bridges East and West
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 18-When UCSD alumni Scott Wang was growing up in a rural town in coastal China, talk of strong ties between the United States and China was unthinkable. More

Wet Winter May Portend Large Fires Later in the Year
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 15-Along with sweeping up fallen leaves and returning the patio chairs to their rightful places, it may be wise for property owners to add some weeding to their post-storm routine. (Quote by Anthony Westerling, an author of the study and a researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More