A Sampling of Clips for 
January 29 - 31, 2005

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Bush Aims to Forge a GOP Legacy
Washington Post, Jan. 30-When President Bush stands before Congress on Wednesday night to deliver his State of the Union address, it is a safe bet that he will not announce that one of his goals is the long-term enfeeblement of the Democratic Party. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a political scientist at UCSD.) More

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If you Like Exotic Travel, Watch Out for Exotic Diseases
USA Today, Jan. 31-American travelers made more than 56 million foreign trips in 2003, up from more than 44 million a decade earlier. They often bring back germs that can take weeks or months to cause symptoms and diseases, which American doctors may be slow to recognize. (Quote by Lisa Tauxe, a geologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

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Harvard President Under Microscope
San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 31-To many female scientists, whose ancestors were denied admittance not only to Ivy League colleges but also to laboratories, a recent speech by Harvard President Lawrence Summers was a blast from the past -- a reminder of dimwitted prejudices many women hoped they had outlived. (Quote by Margaret Burbidge, a professor emeritus at UCSD.) More

Eyes on the Prize
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 30-Hoping to get a big chunk of the state's stem cell funding, San Diego focuses on attracting top-notch researchers. More

Safety of Governor's Proposal
About to be Called into Question
San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 31-The battle over the Bay Bridge boondoggle resumes in Sacramento on Tuesday -- with Round Two billed as the first head-to-head public match up between the Bay Area's fancy suspension span and the governor's scaled-down freeway on stilts. (Refers to a report by UCSD.) More

Approved Stem Cell Lines Contaminated
New Scientist, Jan. 29-Stem cell researchers around the world are facing the nightmare possibility that their experiments have been messed up by contamination from animal cells. (Refers to research to Ajit Varki and team from UCSD.) More

Robert C. Dynes President, University of California
Copley News, Jan. 30-Q & A with Robert C. Dynes, a physicist, and chancellor of UCSD for seven years before becoming president of the University of California system in October 2003. More

Kick-Start your Metabolism
Daily Breeze, Jan. 31-Aerobic exercise and weight training are the safest, most reliable ways to maximize metabolic rate and help body burn calories. (Quote by Cheryl Rock, professor of nutrition at the UCSD School of Medicine.) More

Protein's Gene-Silencing Role
in Development of Nervous System
Medical News Today, Jan. 31-The first evidence that a group of proteins called phosphatases play a key role in the development of the nervous system has been shown in fruit flies and mice by researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine, in collaboration with scientists at the Salk Institute. More

Thar She Blows!
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jan. 30-The gray whales are swimming southward along the coast of Southern California to the warm lagoons off Mexico's Baja California. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Birch Aquarium and San Diego Harbor Excursion make it easy to view the migrating mammals on twice daily whale watches. More

Artful Dodger
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 30-Allan Kaprow, one of a select number of artists who's had a profound impact on the recent history of art, has also been influential as an essayist who challenged conventional thinking about the boundaries between art and life. Kaprow is a professor emeritus at UCSD. More

Grad Students Interact at Symposium
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 30-On Friday, about 200 UCSD graduate students spent the day discussing research ranging from cloud formations to gay marriage and El Salvador gangs during UCSD's annual All-Grad Research Symposium. More

UCSD Researcher Discovers
New Treatment for Rare Disease
North County Times, Jan. 30-Dr. Hal Hoffman, an assistant professor and pediatrician at UCSD, Childrens Hospital and the Ludwig Institute who began studying familial cold auto-inflammatory syndrome eight years ago at the urging of one of his patients, has recently discovered a new treatment for the disease. More

March's Boosters Say Base
Boasts Advantages Feds Cannot Ignore
North County Times, Jan. 29-As much as local boosters don't want it to, March Air Reserve Base could be closed in the rapidly approaching fifth round of U.S. military downsizing, depending on how politics plays into the decision later this year to shutter as many as one-fourth of the nation's installations, political analysts say. (Quote by Michael Bernstein, an economics and history professor at UCSD.) More

Slater-Price to Give Annual Address
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 31-As chairwoman of the Board of Supervisors, Pam Slater-Price will deliver the annual State of the County address Thursday at UCSD. More