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January 25, 2006

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GOP Veteran Seeks to Unseat Feinstein
Los Angeles Times, Jan. 25-Taking on a test that other Republicans have shunned, retired state Sen. Richard Mountjoy said Tuesday that he was entering the race for the GOP nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein. (Quote by Thad Kousser, an assistant political science professor at UCSD.) More

"A Breakthrough in our
Capabilities to Learn about Earthquakes"
YubaNet, Q & A, Jan. 23-Yuri Fialko, an associate professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is a geophysicist who is looking up to look downward: he is using radar satellite data to chart tiny changes in surface topography - gaining insight into what is actually happening as earthquakes and tectonic shifts occur deep beneath the surface of the Earth. More

First the Body, Now the Oceans
Information Week, Jan. 23- After helping crack the human genome, computer technology, data mining, and optical networking will be put to work to give biologists worldwide a window into ocean life. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the J. Craig Venter Institute, and the Calit2 computing facility at UCSD, last week launched a joint project to study the DNA of ocean life. More