A Sampling of Clips for 
July 29, 2003

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Salt Water and Fresh
New York Times, July 29-Claiborne Ray asks Dr. David A. Ross and Dr. Joris Gieskes, a geochemist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, what the approximate ratio of fresh to salt water on the earth is.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/science/29QNA.html?ex=1060056000&en=0cee998d3501d767&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

The Korean Armistice 50 years later
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 29- Fifty years ago this week, the United States, China and North Korea signed the armistice that brought war on the peninsula to an uneasy end. It would serve both the United States and North Korea to reflect on this sad history when addressing the current impasse. (Article written by Steven Haggard, Lawrence and Sallye Krause Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/tue/opinion/news_mz1e29haggar.html

Argentine insects once again making North County antsy
North County Times, July 27-Argentine ants, those eighth-of-an-inch-long lovers of all things sweet ---- are once again driving residents crazy in Southwest Riverside and northern San Diego counties. (Quote by David Holway, an assistant professor of biology at UC San Diego.)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2003/07/27/news/top_stories/7_27_036_13_39.txt

Mail Call
The Benefits--And Drawbacks--Of Statins
Newsweek, July 28-Readers responding to our July 14 cover story on statins were wary about the cholesterol-lowering drug. Many thought the pill, and medication in general, discourage some individuals from living a healthful life. (Cites findings by doctors at the University of California, San Diego.)
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"American Expressionism; Art and Social Change, 1920-1950"; Bram Dijkstra; Harry N. Abrams
Copley News Service, July 28-"American Expressionism: Art and Social Change 1920-1950" is a passionate plea as much as it is a book. Bram Dijkstra, an accomplished cultural and art historian and a professor emeritus in comparative literature at the University of California, San Diego, exhorts us to look anew at a loosely knit group of painters who emerged in the 1920s and 1930s and concentrated on the homeless, the impoverished, the downtrodden, the racially persecuted and those brutalized by war.
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