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January 4 , 2006

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Breakthrough of the Year: Evolution in Action Science Magazine, Dec. 2005-Why evolution, and why now? A special Science video presentation interviews the scientists who have contributed to Science's 2005's Breakthrough of the Year. (Interview with UCSD researcher Ajit Varki.) More 

Surfers, Waves Carve New Coastline
NBC San Diego, Jan. 3-A powerful Pacific storm may have moved out of San Diego, but big surf continues to keep lifeguards on alert and erode sand from local beaches. (Quote by Richard Seymour of the Scripps Institution for Oceanography.) More

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Show Tries to Make Science a Hoot
North County Times, Dec. 22-Ever wonder how television screens got so small? That's what the creators of "When Things Get Small" hope to communicate. "When Things Get Small" - which airs at 8 p.m. Wednesday and Jan. 1 and at 10 p.m. Jan. 2 on UCSD-TV - focuses on the work of UCSD solid-state physicist Ivan Schuller. More

America's Nuclear Ticking Bomb
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 3-New U.S. policies for the use of nuclear weapons were formulated in the administration document "Nuclear Posture Review" of 2001 and became more sharply defined through a Pentagon draft document "Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations." (Article written by Jorge Hirsch, a professor of physics at UCSD.) More