A Sampling of Clips for
January 27, 2005
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Discovery and Significance
of Mirror Neutrons
PBS, Jan. 27-UCSD's
V.S. Ramachandran appeared on the new Nova science
magazine program, scienceNOW in the "Mirror Neurons"
segment. More
Perform,
He Said
Los Angeles Weekly, Jan. 28-Matthew
Wilder brings Marguerite Duras's famously oblique work to America.
(Refers to work by Jim Carmody, director of
UCSD's doctorate program in theater.) More
Bush May
Struggle for a Real Legacy
Taipei Times, Taiwan, Editorial, Jan.
27-US President George W. Bush begins his second term with the
Republican Party in its strongest position in more than 50 years,
but his clout is already being tested by Republican doubts about
his domestic agenda, rising national unease about Iraq, and
the threat of second-term overreaching, officials in both parties
say. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a professor of
political science at UCSD.) More
Letters
to the Editor
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion,
Jan. 26-Your Jan. 16 editorial "Oceans in peril" was
an exceptional description of the crossroads reached by the
ocean sciences. (Letter written by Charles Kennel,
director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
More
Committed
to Science
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 27-Some
volunteers thought they would give one year to this science
competition. Now, they are enlisted for life. (Quote by Dr.
Hiroyuki Sakurai, a biomedical researcher at
UCSD.) More
Agency Proposes Central
Facility
to Serve Homeless in San Diego
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 27-The
operator of an East Village homeless agency says homelessness
is costing San Diego taxpayers millions a year, money that could
be saved if the city would build a facility to assess, treat
and house people who live on the streets. Bob McElroy, executive
director of the Alpha Project, said consultants for his nonprofit
organization tracked 15 homeless and mentally ill individuals
for 18 months, calculating how much police and fire agencies,
ambulance services and UCSD Medical Center
spent on them. More
