A Sampling of Clips for 
January 04 - 06, 2003

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A chance to shine in San Diego: Business Education
Financial Times (London), Jan. 6, Pg. 9 – Robert Sullivan, Dean of UCSD’s Graduate School of Management is profiled. Sullivan’s formula is to attract youngsters with little or no career experience from a wide range of cultural backgrounds, give them an intensive grounding in the business basics and make extensive use of information technology to supplement group-based learning. (Quotes UCSD Vice Chancellor for academic affairs Marsha Chandler and mentions Sydney Brenner, a Nobel laureate in medicine).
http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=030106000357

Caffeine: Good to the last drop, but is it good for you?
Seattle Times, Jan. 5, Pg. 6 – UCSD scientists studied 1,500 people over 50, asking about coffee-drinking habits over their lifetime. Female volunteers who drank six or more cups a day performed better on six of the 12 tests gauging their ability to think and react, compared with those who drank less coffee. The interpretation, according to scientists, is that coffee “may have a protective effect on the cognitive decline associated with aging.”
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vort

Avoiding Alzheimer’s: Staying mentally active might forestall the worst of the disease, but much of the work researchers do involves mind-protecting medicines
Montreal Gazette, Jan. 4, PG. 8 – Staying mentally active might help forestall the worst symptoms of Alzheimer’s by building up a reserve of mental circuits that keep thoughts flowing smoothly. (Quotes Leon Thal, chief of neuroscience at UCSD).
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Toxic mushroom shows promise in tests on hard-to-treat cancers
Ottawa Citizen, Jan. 5, Pg. 10 – A chemical derived from the jack-o’-lantern mushroom, irofulven, is being tested as a possible therapy for hard-to-treat cancers. Trevor McMorris, a chemist at UCSD and Michael Kelner, a pathologist at UCSD collaborated on the research.
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UW expert puts positive spin on negative political ads
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jan. 5, Pg. 1 – University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Ken Goldstein built a national database of campaign ads. (Quotes Samuel Popkin, a political scientist at UCSD).
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Turn down the music, and listen to the musicians’ words
San Diego Union Tribune, Jan. 5, Pg. 10 – George Varga looks back at some of the more memorable quotes from interviews conducted by Pop Scene in 2002. UCSD music professor George Lewis reacts to receiving a $500,000 McArthur “Genius” Grant.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/arts/news_1a5varga.html

Oh, babies! Bundles of joy abound in a rare sequence of births at UCSD
San Diego Union Tribune, Jan. 4, Pg. 1 -- A single infant, a set of twins, a set of triplets and a set of quadruplets were born within a 15-hour, 23-minute period of time last week at the UCSD Medical Center. San Diego Supercomputer Center's Bob Leary calculated the odds of such a rare occurrence. (Quotes Brian Lane, Jamie Jones and Linda Levy, director of UCSD's Women's Health Services).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sat/news/news_1n4baby.html

Diamonds a window to prehistoric times
Copley News Service, Jan. 6 – A team of scientists from UCSD, the University of California Los Angeles and the University of Maryland discovered that diamonds hold sulfur that had passed through the Earth’s atmosphere, crust and mantle 3 billion years ago. (Quotes Mark Thiemens, dean of UCSD’s division of physical sciences and co-author of a study that appeared in the journal Science).
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Peers, patients honor Kaiser doctors for work
San Diego Business Journal, Dec. 9-15 Issue -- Physicians with Kaiser Permanente of San Diego selected Tom Paluch as Kaiser’s 2002 Physician of the Year. Paluch is a surgeon, director of Kaiser’s advanced laproscopic training program and an assistant clinical professor of surgery for UCSD.
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Papers detail WWII loyalty controversy at Scripps
San Diego Union Tribune, Jan. 5 -- Neil Morgan gives details on the investigation of former Scripps Institution of Oceanography director Harald Sverdrup and scientist Walter Munk, who temporarily had their security clearances to work with the Navy revoked in 1942. Scripps archivist, Deborah Day, sought records of the government's investigation through the Freedom of Information Act. (Quotes Scripps director Charles Kennel).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/metro/news_1m5morgan.html

A place to play
San Diego Union Tribune, Jan. 5 --The Starlings Volleyball Club USA, founded and led by director, Byron Shewman, expose low-income girls living in inner-city neighborhoods to volleyball. The Starlings Club was joined by a group from UCSD's athletic program, which included athletic director Earl Edwards, volleyball coach Duncan McFarland, two staff members and two students in Tijuana to install a Sport Court at an elementary school in Grupo Mexico. UCSD will be the new home of the Starlings National Tournament in June and fundraiser in May.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/sports/news_mz1s5sunspc.html

Many skeptical of cash balance retirement plans
Copley News Service, Jan. 6 – Jim D’Aoust, a nuclear engineer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, was baffled by changes in his pension plan made by former employer General Atomics.
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