A Sampling of Clips for 
July 08 - 11, 2005

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Piercing Staph Bug's 'Golden Armor'
Forbes, July 11-A biochemical shield of golden armor helps the Staphylococcus aureus bacterium thwart attacks by the human immune system, according to researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine. More

Type of Fat, Not Just
Cholesterol, Can Lead to Clogged Vessels
Boston Globe, July 11-New research led by Dr. Sotirios Tsimikas of UCSD gives the first solid evidence that fat in the bloodstream can trigger the earliest steps that lead to clogged blood vessels, the top cause of heart attacks. More

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Arizona Central, July 7

To Sally Ride, NASA has Fresh Hope for Exploration
Houston Chronicle, July 10-Q & A with Sally Ride, the first American woman in space who is currently a physics professor at UCSD. Ride served on the commission that investigated the shuttle Columbia accident and also helped investigate the Challenger explosion. More

Shape Program is Helping Breast Cancer Survivors
KFMB, July 8-A diagnosis of breast cancer can leave a woman feeling helpless. And even when the cancer is in remission, she is left wondering if it will return. But thanks to a new health program called SHAPE at the UCSD Cancer Center, cancer survivors are learning how to take an active role in their recovery. (Quote by Dr. Cheryl Rock who is with the UCSD Cancer Center.) More

Brain-Based Values
American Scientist, Opinion, July 2005-From the time of Socrates to the present, people have sought to give a natural basis for morals-that is, to understand how a moral statement about what ought to be done can rest on hard facts, albeit facts about conditions for civility and peace in social groups. (Article written by Patricia Smith Churchland, chair of the department of philosophy at UCSD.) More

UCSD Medical Center Ranked Among Nation's Best Hospitals
San Diego Daily Transcript, July 8-The July 18 issue U.S. News and World Report's annual "Best Hospitals" issue ranks UCSD Medical Center among the best in the nation in six specialty areas, according to a statement. More

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Voice of San Diego, July 8

San Diego North Provides Perfect Summer Itinerary
Arizona Central, July 10-Situated 20 miles north of downtown San Diego with temperatures ranging between 60 to 70 degrees year-round, San Diego North provides the ideal launch pad to explore the myriad of activities along the coast, in the local mountains and the Anza-Borrego Desert. (Mentions Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

Nurses Plan 1-Day Strike at UC Facilities
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 9-The California Nurses Association said yesterday that its members at University of California medical centers across the state will hold a one-day strike on July 21. The UCSD Medical Center said it has arranged replacement staff and that care will not be interrupted by the strike. More

San Diego Unsure Who is in Charge
Contra Costa Times, July 10-San Diego, stung by a string of embarrassing scandals, is facing a fundamental question at a time of deep legal and financial trouble: Who's in charge? (Quote by Steve Erie, a political scientist at UCSD.) More

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North County Times, July 10
NBC San Diego, July 10
Channel 10, July 10

Classic Crossover
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 10-Music from video games is leaping from PCs and PlayStations onto CDs and symphony programs, morphing into a cultural force faster than a Halo player mows down his foes. (Quote by Roger Reynolds, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and UCSD faculty member.) More

Love it or Hate it, the Eucalyptus is San Diego's Tree
Voice of San Diego, Neil Morgan, July 9-At UCSD, a chemistry professor named Jim Whitesell tells us that each eucalyptus tree discharges as many hydrocarbons into the air as a car. There are, according to our poll of best guesses, a million or more eucalyptus trees in San Diego. Thousands of them are on the campus where Whitesell has his lab. His wife is the new campus chancellor, Marye Anne Fox, and the last thing she needs would be another San Diego row over eucs, as, we have discovered, the real insiders call them. More

CAFTA Blocks Access to Medicines
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, July 11-Californians are being told by boosters of the Central America Free Trade Agreement that it is a great deal for our software industry. But public health in the United States and Central America will be put at risk, and many Central Americans will suffer because of reduced access to many essential medicines if this version of CAFTA passes Congress. (Article written by Rut Heifetz, a senior lecturer in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the UCSD School of Medicine.) More

Acquisition of MCRD Could Ease Airport's Growing Pains
San Diego Business Journal, July 11-While the 560-acre Marine Corps Recruit Depot was not on planners' radar screens for a long-term expansion of Lindbergh Field, at least one land use expert says the chance that the training facility might make the Pentagon's list of expendable bases offers a ray of hope on an otherwise crowded urban landscape. (Quote by Steve Erie, a retired UCSD professor of land use studies.) More

Carlsbad Lagoon's Smell Blamed on Red Tide
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 9-"Agua hedionda" is Spanish for "stinking water," and the estuary has been producing an odor during the past two weeks strong enough to be detected by motorists crossing the lagoon on Interstate 5. (Quote by Peter Franks, professor of biological oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

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North County Times, July 9