A Sampling of Clips for
July 29, 2004
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DNA Scientist
Francis Crick Dies at 88
Los Angeles Times, July 29-Nobel Prize-winning
scientist Francis Crick, who
with James Watson discovered the spiral, "double-helix"
structure of DNA, paving the way for everything from DNA blood
tests to genetically engineered tomatoes, has died. He was 88.
Crick died Wednesday at University of California, San
Diego, Thornton Hospital, according to Brendolyn Williams,
a spokeswoman for the Salk Institute, the research body where
Crick worked. Crick had been battling colon cancer.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-obit-crick,1,4969553.story?coll=sns-ap-science-headlines
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CNN News, July 29
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/07/29/people.crick.reut
BBC,
July 29
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3937475.stm
ABC News,
July 29
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040729_906.html
Wired News,
July 29
http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=
Breaking&storyId=900436&tw=wn_wire_story
Contra Costa Times,
July 29
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/state/9272750.
htm?ERIGHTS=4133573946812469315contracostatimes
Miami Herald,
July 29
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/
9272783.htm?ERIGHTS=-1812144334315213703miami
Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
July 29
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?
category=1501&slug=Obit%20Crick
Monterey Herald, July
29
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news
/breaking_news/9272783.htm
The Whicita Eagle,
Kansas, July 29
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/legislature/9272783.htm
Ask Not What You Can Do for Marriage
New York Times, July 29-Married men
make more money than single men. A lot more: labor economists
estimate that even when you control for age, education and other
demographic effects, the ''marriage wage premium'' is 10 percent
to 50 percent. The question is why. There are two broad classes
of explanation. One view holds that marriage causes men to receive
higher wages. The other view is that higher wages are simply
correlated with, but not caused by, marital status. Recently
two economists, Kate Antonovics and Robert
Town of the University of California, San Diego
and the University of Minnesota, respectively, have come up
with a clever way to decide between the causal and the correlation
theories.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/29/business/29scene.html
Drug Combo
May Halt Liver Disease in Those with HIV/Hepatitis C
Forbes, July 28-An estimated 30 percent
of HIV patients are also infected with hepatitis C, a dangerous
double whammy that leaves them at higher risk for liver disease.
However, doctors have been wary of treating hepatitis C for
fear it would compromise any ongoing HIV treatment. But now
new research by UC San Diego, suggests a drug
used for hepatitis C can actually help those who are HIV-positive.
(Quote by Francesca Torriani M.D., an associate
professor of medicine at the University of California,
San Diego.)
http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2004/07/28
/hscout520328.html
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article appeared in:
Channel News Asia, July 28
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/health/view/98142/1/.html
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 29
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20040729-
9999-1m29aids.html
He Prefers
it Rare
Los Angeles Times, July 29-Director
Darko Tresnjak, 38, has a penchant for the
obscure; he prefers directing some of the less familiar Shakespeare
plays -- and seldom-seen old plays in general. Most recently,
he staged "Antony and Cleopatra" and "The Two
Noble Kinsmen" for the Old Globe's ongoing Shakespeare
repertory festival in San Diego's Balboa Park. He's also the
artistic director of the entire festival. Tresnjak
will teach at UC San Diego this coming year
("I think I will have to learn how to drive -- which is
petrifying"). And he is already discussing what he hopes
will be a chance to improve the Old Globe Shakespeare repertory
next summer.
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Partnerships Gain Much,
Lose Little
The Australian,
July 28-A year ago, a group of Australian universities forged
an identity to bind them together. Their convener, Anne Edwards,
celebrates the anniversary by examining the role of university
networks. UCSD is cited as an example of an
innovative research university from the era making their mark
in the top echelon of academic institutions. "Innovation
is our tradition," proclaims the University of
California at San Diego, founded in 1960 and acknowledged
as the "best of the youngest" US universities established
in the period between 1960 and 1975. The UCSD
strategic plan is littered with the phraseology of the time
such as strong interdisciplinary ethos, tradition of innovation
and risk-taking, and a "next-generation" approach
to education and research.
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Workshop Helps Dancers Step Up a Notch
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 29-Summer
Dancin' 2004 is a contemporary modern dance program that is
a joint effort by Ramona Council of Arts Unlimited, Palomar
Community College and San Diego Dance Theater. The program is
in its 16th year in Ramona. People with all levels of dancing
experience, from age 10 to adults, participate in the program
at Olive Peirce Middle School. The three-week program will culminate
with a concert tomorrow night at Ramona High School in the Performing
Arts Wing. (Quote by Terry Wilson, a dance
instructor at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20040729-9999-m1m29tfram.html
Questions
Answered
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 28--Q
& A column by Sherry Seethaler, a UCSD
science writer and educator who answers science questions submitted
by San Diego Union-Tribune readers.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040728/news_1c28sciqa.html
What's Happening
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 28-The
San Diego Gastronomically Correct Chefs salute San Diego journalist
Neil Morgan with a picnic from 4 to 7 p.m. July 31 on the lawn
near the Sun God statue at UCSD in La Jolla.
The event will feature food by 10 local chefs who have prepared
gourmet meals at the James Beard House in New York; wines and
beers from local vintners and breweries; and live entertainment.
The tribute to Morgan is sponsored by the San Diego Press Club
and UCSD.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040728/news_lz1f28events.html
A Sea Change
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 29-Carlsbad-based
rock band 34 Below was swimming in a sea of frustration before
scoring a spot on the Wyland Ocean Challenge tour. The songwriting
core of the band, vocalist Steve Ybarra and guitarist Chris
James, and percussionist Gustavo Peraza will perform at festivals
from Maine to Florida. The tour is hosted by the Wyland Foundation,
an organization that has partnered with Scripps Institution
of Oceanography and the Birch Aquarium to create "Wyland
Ocean Challenge, Clean Water for a 21st Century ... And Beyond."
It's a series of nationwide art and science festivals that will
feature an all-ages concert, a community beach cleanup and children's
activities at each stop.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040729/news_lz1w2934.html
