A Sampling of Clips for 
July 12, 2005

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Neuron Network Goes
Awry and Brain Becomes an IPod
New York Times, July 12-Musical hallucinations have been invading people's minds long before they were recognized as a medical condition. While doctors have known about musical hallucinations for over a century, they have rarely studied it systematically. That has changed in recent years. (Refers to research by Diana Deutsch, a psychologist at UCSD.) More

Gold-Colored Bacteria More Dangerous
MSNBC, July 12-Gold-colored bacteria that cause more disease than colorless strains do so because they carry antioxidants to protect themselves against immune system attack, UCSD researchers reported on Monday. More

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London Blasts Underscore
Need for Bomb-Detection Technology
Electronic Engineering Times, July 11-Detecting a bomb in a public space like a bus or a building is technologically doable, according to engineers and researchers working on such devices today. The solutions won't come cheap, and it will be at least a year before devices sensitive enough to prevent disasters like last week's bombings in London are deployed. (Refers to research by Frieder Seible, dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UCSD.) More

Diverse Shuttle Crew is Poised to Put US Back in Space
Christian Science Monitor, July 11-There's an Air Force test pilot, a triathlete, a Japanese engineer, a lead guitarist in a rock band, an Aussie named Andy, and a scientist from Queens who holds seven patents. And wrangling them all together is the commander they call "mom." These are the astronauts of shuttle Discovery - America's "return to space" crew. (Quote by Lawrence Palinkas, a professor in the department of family and preventative medicine at UCSD.) More

Incumbent Protection is Prime Target
San Francisco Chronicle, Opinion, July 10-San Francisco's Nancy Pelosi is a Democrat who is returned to Congress every two years because she is an incumbent occupying a safe House seat. If I lived in her district, I (as a Democrat) would vote for her, too. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a professor at UCSD.) More

San Diegans Ink
San Diego Union-Tribune, Diane Bell, July 12-UCSD has scheduled two Nobel Prize-winning economists, Clive Granger and Robert Engle, to speak at its economic roundtable tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. in the Faculty Club. More

Saying a Slow Goodbye to Jaws
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 12-Imagine a world without Jaws. Within less than a century, there will be no more large sharks in the world's oceans; they'll all be gone - the great whites, makos, threshers, the huge whale sharks, the gentle basking sharks that eat plankton - all gone. (Quote by Jeff Graham, a shark expert, research physiologist and marine biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More