A Sampling of Clips for January 7^th, 2009

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Poll: Half Say Burris Should Be Blocked
USA Today, Jan. 7 -- A majority of Americans say Roland Burris should be blocked from taking a U.S. Senate seat he was appointed to by embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds. Most say the state should hold a special election to fill the vacancy. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Gary Jacobson) More

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Energy Drain by Computers Stifles Efforts at Cost Control
Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 7 -- The price of storing and processing data is hurting every college and university in the country. (Quotes Dallas Thornton, a division director for cyberinfrastructure services at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD) More

Hapiness Virus
The McLaughlin Group, PBS, December 2009 -- Happiness may, in fact, be contagious, but you need a social network. Not bad to hear some happy talk during a holiday recession downer -- mortgages defaulting, dollar slipping, markets teetering, 10 million Americans jobless. Thank God happiness is still there. In fact, UCSD researcher James Fowler and Harvard scientist Nicholas Christakis did a study that finds the reason to be optimistic about happiness occurring in your future; namely, if you have social networks. More

Studies: Cardiac Deaths More Common in December, January
KVUE, Austin, Tex., Jan. 7  -- Recent studies show that December and January are the two deadliest months for heart attacks. (Mentions UCSD) More

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Hawaii Will Have Role in Managing Pacific's Newest Monuments
Honolulu Advertiser, Jan. 7 -- Yesterday, President Bush declared the Mariana Trench, Pacific Remote Islands and Rose Atoll as marine national monuments whose combined areas covers more than 195,000 square miles of ocean. (Mentions the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

Should Medicine Be Blind to Ethnic Differences?
KPBS, Jan. 6 -- There's no argument that sickle cell anemia is most prevalent in African-Americans or that Tay Sachs disease is more common in the ethnically-Jewish population. But most assertions about medicine and race are much more controversial. Are our genes different, or is it our culture? Or is it both? These Days guests discussing the issue include Michael Hardimon, philosophy professor at UCSD and John Carethers, professor of medicine and chief of the division of gastroenterology at the UCSD Medical Center and Moores UCSD Cancer Center. He is also the co-principal investigator of the new Comprehensive SDSU-UCSD Cancer Center Partnership. More

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