A Sampling of Clips for 
July 28, 2004

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Apparent Benefits to Mexico with Kerry Victory
Reforma, July 26-Q & A with Christopher Woodruff, Director of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Woodruff recently was interviewed by Reforma regarding his belief that Mexicans would benefit from a triumph by the Democrats in the upcoming presidential election.
* No link available online.

Stem Cell Research in DNC Spotlight
Boston Channel, July 27-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 stem-cell researcher at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/politics/3582319/detail.html

Loren Mosher: US Psychiatrist Whose Non-Drug Treatments Helped His Patients
Guardian, London, July 28-On December 4 1998, after 35 years as a member of the American Psychiatric Association, Loren Mosher, who has died aged 70, published an open letter of resignation, accusing psychiatrists of keeping their distance from patients, while promoting the overuse of toxic chemicals with known and serious long-term effects. The statement could not easily be dismissed. Mosher's credentials and experience were impressive. At the time of his death, he was clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1270409,00.html

Study Urges New Look at Leg Artery Ailment
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 28-Physicians who think their patients' peripheral artery disease has disappeared because they no longer suffer leg pain may be wrong. A study by UC San Diego and other researchers published today said the patients' disease still might exist and have progressed, despite the absence of pain. (Quote by Michael Criqui M.D., a professor of family and preventive medicine at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/health/20040728-9999-1m28decline.html

Stars' Smoking, Girls' Addiction Linked - Study
San Jose Mercury News, July 28-A new report supports the notion that adolescent girls may be inclined to smoke if their favorite movie stars light up on screen. The study is one of the few to interview adolescents before they have tried smoking. The study, conducted by a team from the University of California, San Diego, appears in the latest issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/people/family
/9260837.htm?ERIGHTS=1636789227768176128mercurynews

Study Says Movie Ratings Getting Less Strict
KFMB Channel 8, San Diego, July 27-A recent study confirms something many parents already suspected. It finds movie ratings have gotten a lot less strict over the past several years. Harvard researchers have found that violence, sex and profanity in movies is on the rise. (Quote by Kari Herzog, a project coordinator at the UCSD Youth Violence Prevention Center.)
http://www.kfmb.com/family_first/details.php?storyID=27663

Abarbanel Files to Run Again
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 28-Two-term City Councilman Henry Abarbanel is the first candidate to file for one of three council seats to be filled in the November election. Abarbanel, 61, a professor of physics at UCSD, was first elected to the City Council in 1992, lost a bid for a second term in 1996, then was elected again in 2000. His term expires in December. Abarbanel said yesterday that if elected he would continue to focus on controlling auto traffic, providing a means to mediate disputes between neighbors over views, getting utility lines put underground and getting teens involved in civic affairs.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20040728-9999-1mc28del.html

Brain Sales
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 28-In cities from Pasadena to London, in university labs and hospital wings, researchers and advertising executives are peering directly into the minds of would-be consumers. They are looking for biological evidence of brand preference: Why someone prefers Pepsi to Coke, buys a truck rather than a car or simply ignores an advertising pitch altogether. It's called neuromarketing. Proponents say it's a method - based on sound science - to more precisely divine what consumers really want or don't want in products and services. Skeptics say that's just hyperbole. Others worry that it is not. (Quote by Martin Paulus, an associate professor of psychiatry at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20040728-9999-lz1c28brain.html