A Sampling of Clips for January 22^nd, 2009

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What Makes Apple So Different?
San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 22 -- Whatever your thoughts about him, no one can imagine the movement without him. Well, we may have to. That's right: Steve Jobs is taking a leave of absence. (Mentions Donald Norman, a professor of cognitive science at UCSD) More

Clint Eastwood to Get Award from Cal
NBC Bay Area, Jan. 21 -- Actor and director Clint Eastwood will receive the first-ever Berkeley Japan New Vision Award from the UC Berkeley's Center for Japanese Studies on Friday, Jan. 23. In addition to the award ceremony, the Center for Japanese Studies will host a scholars' roundtable about "Letters from Iwo Jima.” Panelists include history professor Takashi Fujitani of UCSD. More

Local Scientist Attempts to Unravel Secret Language of Bees
KPBS, Jan. 21 -- Bees, it seems, are highly social creatures, with an elaborate hive structure with hierarchy, duties and ways of communicating. UCSD evolutionary biologist James Nieh is researching not only how bees communicate but why such communication came into existance.  More

Green Boom Predicted, But Bottom Line Still Cloudy
Voice of San Diego, Jan. 21 – San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders devoted a significant portion of his State of the City speech last week to clean technology and what it means to the city now and in the future. (Quotes Richard Carson, an environmental economist at UCSD) More

Termite Inspection
East Bay Express, Jan. 21 -- Jean-Pierre Gorin, a UCSD film prof, who studied in Paris with Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault, wrote criticism at Le Monde, collaborated on movies with Jean-Luc Godard, and moved to San Diego in the late '70s to teach and make films about Southern California — he's still there, doing that — does indeed have his own series of favorite films. He calls it "The Way of the Termite."More

Union, School Leaders Split on How to Measure Teachers
Voice of San Diego, Jan. 21 -- San Diego Unified has used the same process to evaluate its teachers for decades. It rarely pegs teachers with negative ratings, gives them years to improve, and seldom forces their dismissal. No tenured teachers were fired for poor performance last year. (Quotes Bud Mehan, director of the Center for Research on Educational Equity, Access, and Teaching Excellence at UCSD) More

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