A Sampling of Clips for
July 23, 2004
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Climate
Change Affects Deep Sea Life
Nature, July 22-The remote and lightless
deep-sea floor has long been thought to be protected from events
on the surface, such as global warming. But it now seems that
climate change impinges on the rhythm of life on the seabed
after all. Henry Ruhl and his colleagues at
the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in
La Jolla, California, regularly visit a site off the California
coast to study the ocean floor, 4,100 metres below. The researchers
report in this week's Science that different species are more
prevalent at different times, and that these population fluctuations
correlate with food availability and major climate events, including
the El Niño weather system.
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040719/full/040719-13.html
Ocean Extreme Shows Its
Spine
Astrobiology Magazine, July 23-Scientists
in San Diego have described the earth's smallest, lightest animal
with a backbone. H.J. Walker of Scripps
Institution of Oceanography at the University
of California, San Diego, and William Watson of the
Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries
Service, in La Jolla have identified the miniscule "stout
infantfish," a new species no longer than the width of
a pencil.
http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News
&file=article&sid=1094&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
San Diego Transforms Itself
from Beach Town to Cultural Destination
Associated Press, July 22-Since 2000,
San Diego Art + Sol has labored to change the perception that
San Diego is exclusively a beach town. San Diego nourishes widely
acclaimed theaters, including the La Jolla Playhouse, The Old
Globe, Lamb's Players Theater and San Diego Repertory Theater
at the Lyceum. Nestled on the hilltop campus of the University
of California, San Diego, the La Jolla Playhouse has
long drawn and developed top theater industry talent, which
began with artistic director Des McAnuff.
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Experts Laud U.S. Program
to Counter Bioterror Attack
San Francisco Chronicle, July 23-Fast
action and the right medicines can save tens of thousands of
lives in the event of a bioterror attack, Stanford's Dean Wilkening
told a bioweapons conference just hours after President Bush
announced Project BioShield, a $5.6 billion program to develop
stockpiles of vaccines and antidotes for chemical and biological
weapons. Bioweapons, which require days or weeks of incubation
to become deadly, provide a crucial window of opportunity to
treat those at risk, Wilkening said at a program Wednesday on
public policy and biological threats for the Institute on Global
Conflict and Cooperation at UC San Diego.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/23/MNGEO7S1331.DTL
Jeopardy Memory Tricks
NBC Channel 7/39, July 22-Jeopardy
champion Ken Jennings may know a lot of information, but that
doesn't mean he has an excellent memory, said a UCSD
memory expert. What Jennings possesses is skill at recalling
facts, said UCSD memory researcher Larry
Squire.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/3567985/detail.html
Ethicists Grapple with
Stem-Cell Research
Copley News, July 22-When California
voters go to the polls Nov. 2, among the ballot issues will
be a request to use state bonds to raise $3 billion over 10
years to fund stem-cell research - including research on stem
cells from days-old embryos. But Proposition 71, the California
Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, isn't just about jump-starting
a science project in this state. It's also about deciding the
morality of that science. (Quote by Michael Kalichman,
director of the Research Ethics Program at UCSD.)
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