A Sampling of Clips for 
July 16 - 19, 2004

* UCSD faculty and staff may obtain a copy of an article by e-mailing the University Communications Office

Why Venture Funds Don't Want Your Cash
New York Times, July 18-The partners at Sevin Rosen, a top venture capital firm, were braced for the worst last November, when they began passing the word that they wanted to raise a few hundred million dollars to invest in a new generation of technology start-up companies. After all, the venture capital business had just experienced the worst slump of its 30-year history. Instead, Sevin Rosen was inundated by would-be investors, proving once again that venture firms can be an unpredictable investment. (Quote by Paul Kedrosky, a professor of bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego.)
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American Kabuki: The Ritual of Scandal
New York Times, July 18-The lead story from Wall Street last week read more or less like this: ''Kenneth L. Lay indicted; Martha Stewart sentenced.'' The two are constantly linked in the media like some poster couple of corporate corruption. What's distinctive about these and other business scandals is the way the mass media has been telling the stories in the same terms. And the public has grown to expect this. (Quote by Michael Schudson, a sociologist at the University of California, San Diego.)
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L.R. Mosher, 70, Innovator at Mental Health Institute
New York Times, July 18-Loren R. Mosher M.D., a former National Institute of Mental Health official who developed a drug-free approach to treating schizophrenia and argued that psychiatrists should rely less heavily on antipsychotic medications, died on July 10 at a clinic in Berlin. He was 70. Dr. Mosher was a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego medical school. Throughout his career, he wrote more than 100 scientific articles and reviews.
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Charity Should Begin in Congress
Washington Post, July 18-The Rev. Joe Carroll ministers daily to thousands of San Diego's destitute and disoriented. Yet he, and hence they, may soon have a tax problem created by Congress. If so, he and many other doers of good works will do fewer, cities nationwide will struggle to do more, and many vulnerable people will lose their tenuous grips on the lowest rung of the social ladder. (Mentions community program run by UC San Diego.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?node=admin/registration/register&destination=register&nextstep=gather
&application=reg30-opinion&applicationURL=http://www.washingtonpost.com
/wp-dyn/articles/A56521-2004Jul16.html

Similar articles appeared in:
New York Post, July 18
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/27357.htm

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania), July 19
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Cincinnati Post, July 19
http://www.cincypost.com/2004/07/19/will07-19-2004.html

Indianapolis Star, July 19
http://www.indystar.com/articles/6/163457-1036-021.html

Damage Control
The New Yorker, July 19-Senator John Kerry's position on the war in Iraq has not changed since his anti-war address to the Council on Foreign Relations seven months ago, and now his critique of President Bush is shared by a growing majority of voters. But passionate antipathy to Bush has not translated into a corresponding enthusiasm for Kerry. Even after his astonishing sweep of the primaries, and the widely celebrated selection of John Edwards as his running mate, Kerry perplexes much of the electorate. (Quote by Samuel Popkin, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040726fa_fact

Just Diagnosed With Cancer, Now What?
San Diego Channel 10, July 15-Patients who have just been diagnosed with cancer, can feel overwhelmed with all the information presented to them. Some go to the Internet to research, but Anne Wallace M.D., a cancer surgeon at UCSD, feels that researching on the Internet could lead to more confusion, if you're not looking in the right places.
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/health/3533056/detail.html

Drug May Help Delay the Onset of Alzheimer's
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 19-A drug that delays worsening of mild or moderate Alzheimer's disease also may block - at least temporarily - the disease cascade for those with very early signs of dementia, according to a study presented yesterday by UCSD and Mayo Clinic neuroscientists. (Quote by Leon Thal M.D., a physician at the UC San Diego Medical Center.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20040719-9999-1m19alz.html

Orthopedic Surgeon Makes Pitch for Summer Safety
Copley News Service, July 18-Robert Pedowitz M.D., chief of the sports medicine service for the University of California, San Diego Healthcare's Department of Orthopedic Surgery, expects to see a fair number of sports injuries this summer but says that doesn't have to be the case. Pedowitz has several suggestions for sports enthusiasts to prevent common injuries and avoid a visit to the orthopedist.
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Fountain of Youth More Often a Font of Overmarketing
Contra Costa Times, July 19-It's easy to become lost to the world of anti-aging cosmetics, a vast and chaotic bazaar where hundreds of creams, lotions and gels vie for the dollars of 90 million Americans eager to turn back the clock. But are over-the-counter creams as effective as medical procedures? (Quote by Mark Rubin, an associate professor of dermatology at UC San Diego.)
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/9183748.htm?1c

UCSD Dean Helps Design Athens Bridge
North County Times, July 17-The torchbearer carrying the Olympic flame to the stadium in Athens will be the first to cross the new Rion-Antirion Bridge, the world's longest cable-stayed bridge. If, by some remarkable coincidence, an earthquake strikes that August day, Frieder Seible says the new bridge will be safer than solid ground. Dean of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, Seible was hired as a consultant on the design of the bridge. Athens' new four-masted marvel of modern engineering spans roughly two miles across the narrowest portion of the Gulf of Corinth and connects the Peloponnesian peninsula to the Greek mainland.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/07/18/special_
reports/science_technology/18_09_107_17_04.txt

A Mighty Wind Finally Comes to an End; UCSD Library Benefits
La Jolla Light, July 15-All good things must eventually come to an end, but sometimes endings can be beautiful. Back in December, La Jolla resident Charles Schwieger discontinued the weekly music-playing group he hosted for 40 years. However, the UCSD Music Library stands to benefit, as Schwieger donated about 300 works of his chamber music to the library.
http://www.lajollalight.com/2004/07/15/a040715a_mighty.html

Diatomic Power
Copley News Service, July 18-Churning and drifting through the world's oceans - indeed in any place where there is water - are diatoms: single-celled, planktonic algae that are easily overlooked and generally unremarked upon until you actually see one through a microscope. Then, they become small wonders, possessors of a singular kind of crystalline beauty. (Quote by Mark Hildebrand, a professor of biology and diatomist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
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Scientists Want to Take Lead on Stem-Cell Research
Copley News Service, July 18-In labs from San Diego to Pasadena, scientists are trying to make Southern California the world center for stem-cell research - a young and controversial field that could lead to revolutionary treatments for some of the world's most devastating diseases. (Quote by Larry Goldstein, a stem-cell researcher at University of California San Diego.)
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Debate Over Terminal Has Familiar Ring
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 18-The 10th Avenue Marine Terminal on San Diego Bay represents the front line in San Diego's centuries-long campaign to decide what it wants to be. The 96-acre site also represents a ripe plum in the downtown redevelopment story, a mouthwatering waterfront location for possible nonindustrial uses like hotels, parks, marinas and, lately, a Chargers stadium. In this regard, it's an example of San Diego's "geraniums" side - tourism, clean industry, beauty and recreation. (Quote by Steve Erie, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040718/news_mz1h18smokes.html

Our View: High Tech Firms Lead Local Economy
North County Times, July 17-Biotechnology, telecommunications and the emerging field of nanotechnology have become leaders in the economic development of North County and our region. It's a clean, high-paying, fast-growing cluster of industries that are spinning off jobs and drawing investment by the tens of millions. It's a result of hard work and a bit of luck. If Irwin Jacobs had not come to UC San Diego a generation ago, he would have founded Qualcomm somewhere else. Two other UCSD faculty members, Ivor Royston and Howard Birndorf, founded San Diego's first biotech company, Hybritech. Birndorf and biochemist Michael Heller later found another local biotech firm, Nanogen. Had these few people gone elsewhere, so would their companies.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/07/18/opinion/editorials
/20_32_117_17_04.txt