A Sampling of Clips for
July 22, 2003
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Predicting
Autism
Newsweek, July 28- Of all the misfortunes
a child can suffer, few provoke as much dread as autism. A growing
body of evidence, capped last week by new findings from the
University of California, San Diego, links
the condition to abnormally rapid brain growth during infancy-and
it raises new hopes for diagnosis and treatment.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/941426.asp?0dm=s118k
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article appeared in:
The Washington Post, July 22
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25473-2003Jul21.html
Incoming
UC chief says LANL problems must be weighed against science
feats
Platts, July 21-The University of
California has sometimes stumbled in managing Los Alamos National
Laboratory for the Energy Department, but the school has also
established a long track record of scientific accomplishment
over the decades in running DOE labs and could contribute more.
"We've stubbed our toes" in running LANL, UC
San Diego Chancellor Robert Dynes,
who takes over as UC president next month, said in an interview.
"But my belief is that, for the most part, UC should stand
tall and proud of what we've accomplished..."
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/eclips/pdf/dynes.pdf
Neighbors,
UCSD at odds over proposal
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 22-
In this neighborhood scuffle between La Jolla residents and
UCSD, both sides are staking out their home
turf. Seaweed Canyon is the proposed site for a 10,000-square-foot
machine shop for UCSD's Scripps Institution
of Oceanography. It also is the university-owned back
yard to dozens of multimillion-dollar, ocean-view homes at the
canyon's edge. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20030722-9999_1m22canyon.html
Frontier
Life #2: Sheldon Brown
Joystick101.org, July 18-Understanding
(and creating) quality games requires intellectual wanderlust.
The vast potential attracts comfortable specialists, but the
most interesting games and ideas about games push the frontier.
(Quote by Sheldon Brown, an Associate Professor
in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of
California, San Diego.)
http://www.joystick101.org/story/2003/7/15/95159/1155
Fade Pattern Getting Old;
Collapses in second half of season frustrate Chargers, Schottenheimer,
who face off-the-field distractions
Los
Angeles Times, July 22- The Chargers signed a
five-year agreement to hold training camp at the Home Depot
Center in Carson after holding camp on the UC San Diego
campus in La Jolla for the last 27 years.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-chargers22jul22,1,1219891.story
