A Sampling of Clips for 
July 20, 2004

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Seeking A Fuller Picture Of Statins
New York Times, July 20-Among cardiologists, it has become a running joke: maybe the powerful drugs known as statins should be added to the water supply. Not only do statins greatly reduce cholesterol and lower mortality in people at risk for heart attacks, but some studies also suggest that they might help to prevent or treat a wide range of ailments, including Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, bone fractures, some types of cancer, macular degeneration and glaucoma. (Quote by Beatrice A. Golomb M.D., an associate professor at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/20/health/20stat.html

Study: Land in Coastal Areas Breathing
Los Angeles Times, July 19-The millions of Americans enjoying beach vacations this summer may not be aware of it, but the land beneath their feet is breathing. As tides come and go, the water causes changes in underground air pressure, forcing air and moisture in and out of the ground along the shore, Jui J. Jiao of
the University of Hong Kong found in studying coastal areas near his school. (Quote by Douglas L. Inman, professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-breathing-shoreline,1,7755574.story?coll=sns-ap-science-headlines

Similar articles appeared in:
Newsday, July 20
http://www.newsday.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-breathing-shoreline,0,6877159.story?coll=sns-ap-science-headlines

The Associated Press, July 20
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 19
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?
category=1501&slug=Breathing%20Shoreline

Miami Herald, July 20
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/politics/9195637.htm

Lexington Herald-Leader, Kentucky, July 20
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/science/9195637.htm

Monterey Herald, July 20
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/9195637.htm

San Luis Obispo, July 20
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/9195637.htm

Tech Bust Zaps Interest in Computer Careers
Los Angeles Times, July 20-There used to be waiting lists for Rick Ord's classes as students packed 200-seat auditoriums to scribble down bits of code once thought to unlock a life of riches and security. These days, Ord's lectures on systems programming at UC San Diego convene in smaller halls with plenty of empty seats. After flocking to computer science during the technology boom, students are fleeing it almost as fast, spooked by tales of unemployed programmers watching their jobs migrate to India and Eastern Europe.
http://www.latimes.com/la-fi-grads20jul20,1,927425.story

No Rest for Those in Sleep Research
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 20-Companies that serve people with sleep disorders want more physicians to wake up to the role sleep plays in a person's overall health. A steady flow of scientific studies has shown a link between sleep disorders and myriad health problems including cardiac issues, diabetes, obesity and even sexual dysfunction. A study released earlier this year by researchers from the University of California, San Diego found diagnosis of sleep apenea may have prevented 567,000 vehicle crashes, 980 deaths and saved $11.1 billion a year. (Quote by Alan Maisel M.D., a professor of cardiology at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business
/20040720-9999-1b20resmed.html

New Clues to Cause of Lou Gehrig's Disease
Forbes, July 20-Animal studies are pointing to problems with mitochondria, the energy factories of human cells, as an important element in Lou Gehrig's disease, the relentlessly fatal wasting-away condition. There is "growing evidence" that mitochondrial malfunction, not only in nerve cells but also in skeletal muscle cells, may play a crucial role in the disease, says a report in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The French study was led by Jean-Philippe Loeffler, research director at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, recently reported an animal study that also implicated mitochondrial malfunction in ALS.
http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/
hscout/2004/07/20/hscout520125.html

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Atlanta Journal Constitution, July 20
http://www.ajc.com/health/content/shared-auto/
healthnews/als/520125.html

Contrarian Psychiatrist Loren Mosher, 70
Washington Post, July 20-Loren R. Mosher M.D., 70, who died of liver cancer July 10 at a clinic in Berlin, was a contrarian psychiatrist and schizophrenia expert who was dismissed from the National Institute of Mental Health for his controversial theories on treatment. He advocated a largely drug-free treatment regimen for schizophrenics, which still runs counter to a prevailing opinion for using antipsychotic drugs for schizophrenics in the United States. Dr. Mosher moved to San Diego from Washington in 1996. At his death, he was a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego medical school and was in Berlin for experimental cancer treatment.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63107-2004Jul19.html

Notes From a Native Son
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 20-Playwright Athol Fugard saturates his spare dramas in the same harsh hues that color his native land, South Africa. His plays, most set there, offer an imagined history of place; his life is the rare tale of an artist fulfilling a public role that has made him a national hero. So when a Fugard surrogate in his new play "Exits and Entrances" declares himself a citizen of no particular state but the writer's - "the blank page has become my home," he says - a threshold has been crossed, a border erased. Over the last decade, Fugard has spent increasing amounts of time in the United States, often to direct or perform at La Jolla Playhouse. Since 2000, he's been a visiting professor at UCSD.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040720-9999-1c20fugard.html

Little 'Exits' Packs a Big Punch
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, July 20- In a converted house in a rundown neighborhood here, next door to Scott's Auto Repair and A-1 Electric, playwright Athol Fugard and two ace actors have created a stage work with a rare emotional power compressed into 80 minutes. Fugard's new "Exits and Entrances," directed at the Fountain Theatre by its founder, Stephen Sachs, offers a plum role to Morlan Higgins as the actor Andre and a subtle one to William Dennis Hurley as The Playwright, two very different South African characters, one struggling to find meaning at the end of his artistic career, the other at the beginning of his.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040720-9999-1c20exits.html

Plan Calls for Bold Approach to Managing Growth
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 18-The San Diego region, already mired in daily traffic bottlenecks, faces an increasingly unpleasant future of longer commutes, more expensive housing and fouled air and water as long as the county's diminishing land continues to be consumed by mostly low-density housing. A new region wide blueprint for growth, hailed as a novel approach to planning, aims to reverse that course. (Quote by Keith Pezzoli, a professor of urban planning at UC San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040718/news_1h18grow.html