A Sampling of Clips for 
July 27, 2004

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Small but Vertebrate
New York Times, July 27-You don't have to be big to have a backbone. In fact, scientists have discovered that you can even be as small as a quarter of an inch long. Researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the National Marine Fisheries Service have described a fish species that is the smallest vertebrate known. The fish, the stout infantfish (its Latin name is Schindleria brevipinguis), lives in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/27/science/27obse.html

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Seattle Times, July 27
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001989238_tinyfish27.html

Living Deep
Astrobiology Magazine, July 27-Although it covers more than two-thirds of Earth's surface, much of the deep sea remains unknown and unexplored, and many questions remain about how its environment changes over time. A new study led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography has shed new light on significant changes in the deep sea over a 14-year period. Scripps Institution's Henry Ruhl and Ken Smith show in the new issue of the journal Science that changes in climate at the surface of the ocean may be impacting communities of larger animals more than 13,400 feet below the ocean surface.
http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file
=article&sid=1102&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Stem Cells to Take Focus at Convention
KFMB Channel 8, San Diego, July 26-Stem cell research, a topic that long ago spread beyond the laboratory and into politics, will catch the spotlight briefly on Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention. A speech by Ron Reagan, a son of the late President Reagan, will be just the latest development that has kept attention on this difficult and controversial field. (Quote by Lawrence Goldstein, a researcher at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.kfmb.com/topstory27602.html

Antarctic Ice Culled for Clues on Climate
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 27-Over the past half-century, UCSD and its Scripps Institution of Oceanography have assembled one of the world's top teams to research the air living things breathe. Current research by UCSD's Mark Thiemens, is seeking clues to the Earth's climate history by studying ice from the bottom of a 20-foot-deep pit three miles from the South Pole.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20040727-9999-1m27air.html

Press Club Picnic Fetes Morgan
La Jolla Village News, July 22-Longtime San Diego editor, columnist and author Neil Morgan will be honored by the San Diego Press Club and University of California, San Diego at a festive "picnic to end all picnics" featuring gourmet foods and beverages and live entertainment. (Quote by Barry Jagoda, director of social science communications at UCSD.)
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/eclips/PDF/morgan.pdf

Animal Rights Advocates Protest Decision to Trap and Kill Coyotes
North County Times, July 26-A dozen animal rights activists gathered outside the Department of Fish and Game office Monday morning to protest the department's decision to trap and kill coyotes that reportedly were attacking pets and threatening residents at an Oceanside senior community. The demonstration took place several hours after federal trappers called in by Fish and Game finished their coyote hunt near the Ocean Hills Country Club, a gated community in southeastern Oceanside along the border of the 110-acre Calavera Preserve in Carlsbad. (Quote by Megan Sewell, president of the Students Against Animal Suffering at University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/07/27/news/coastal/7_26_0420_13_55.txt