A Sampling of Clips for
July 01, 2005
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High-Wire Art
Los Angeles Times, Opinion, July 1-Review
of Tim Hawkinson's mid-career survey exhibition at the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art. (Mentions Hawkinson's exhibit at UCSD.)
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Scientists
Check Pulse of the Ocean
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 1-Nearly
500 miles off San Diego, night has shrouded the ocean, but electric
lights illuminate the research vessel New Horizon. (Refers to
research by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
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The Quirks
and Culture of Helium
Science Magazine, July 1-Ordinarily
an inert gas so light it floats off into space, helium might
seem to hold little interest for condensed-matter physicists.
But since it was liquefied by Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh
Onnes in 1908, the odd stuff has revealed much about the physics
of liquids and solids. (Quote by John Goodkind,
an experimenter at the UCSD.) More
3,300 Affected as Hackers
Hit UCSD Server
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 1-UCSD
is alerting 3,300 students, staff and faculty whose confidential
information was compromised after hackers broke into a university
server. University officials believe they discovered the breach
within a few days. The university does not have evidence that
the personal data were viewed or used for identity theft. More
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Changing
of the Guard
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 1-San
Diego's Qualcomm celebrates 20th anniversary today by ushering
in new leadership and a new era. (Mentions UCSD.)
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Genetic
On-Off Switches Pinpointed in Human Genome
Innovations Report, July 1-In another
step to decipher information in the human genome, scientists
have discovered the location and sequence of over 10,000 DNA
regions that function as genetic on-off switches, or "promoters"
in human fibroblasts. The project is a collaboration headed
by Bing Ren at UCSD, working
with scientists at UCLA and the company Nimblegen, Inc., in
Madison, Wisc. More
Experts:
Poll
Results Spell Trouble for Cunningham
North County Times, July 1-Two experts
on congressional politics say that Rep. Randy "Duke"
Cunningham is in deep trouble with his Republican constituents,
if the results of a poll released Thursday are on the mark.
(Quote by Gary Jacobson, professor of political
science at UCSD.) More
