A Sampling of Clips for 
July 14, 2005

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Researchers Link Brain Chemical and Anorexia
CNN, July 14-Women who suffer from anorexia have increased chemical activity in a part of the brain that controls reward and reinforcement, something that may explain why they are driven to lose weight but don't get any pleasure from it, according to a new study led by UCSD child psychiatry fellow, Dr. Guido Frank. More

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UC Quits National Merit Program
Los Angeles Times, July 14-The University of California announced Wednesday that its campuses will stop participating in the National Merit Scholarship program, contending that the annual competition doesn't fairly assess academic talent. (Mentions UCSD.) More

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Old Vessel Launches
New Career in Coral Seas
San Francisco Chronicle, July 14-The White Holly, which served in World War II as a Navy yard freighter on San Francisco Bay, is beginning a new life -- as an oceanographic research vessel for a scientific expedition that seeks to discover how and why so many of the Earth's coral reefs are dying. (Refers to research by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

X-Ray Oscillations From Biggest
Star Quake in Universe Provide Clues
to Mysterious Interior of Neutron Stars
PhysOrg.com, July 13-A gigantic explosion on a neutron star halfway across the Milky Way galaxy, the largest such explosion ever recorded in the universe, should allow UCSD astronomers for the first time to probe the interiors of these mysterious stellar objects. More

Space Flight: Team Up or Go Solo?
Christian Science Monitor, July 14-Some 220 miles above Earth orbits the biggest test of international spaceflight cooperation. (Quote by Charles F. Kennel, director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

Offshore Relics Being Plundered by Divers
Channel 10, July 13-Local Indian tribes and environmental groups have banded together to protect artifacts submerged along San Diego's coastline, it was reported Wednesday. (Refers to research by Patricia Masters, an undersea archaeologist with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More