UCSD News

A Sampling of Clips for
July 6^th, 2007

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Key Protein May Explain Men’s Higher Liver Cancer Risk
The Washington Post, July 6 -- Men produce more of a protein linked to liver cancer than women do, UCSD researchers report. The finding might explain why men have a higher rate of liver cancer than women, the U.S. team says. More

How We Get Addicted
TIME Magazine, July 6 -- Armed with an array of increasingly sophisticated technology, including fMRIs and PET scans, investigators have begun to figure out exactly what goes wrong in the brain of an addict--which neurotransmitting chemicals are out of balance and what regions of the brain are affected. (Quotes Dr. Martin Paulus, a professor of psychiatry at UCSD) More

Enduring On
The Economist, July 5 -- Visiting China as a student in 1971, Susan Shirk was told by the premier, Zhou Enlai, that he “wished she was president of the United States”. She was struck, she writes, by the country's “drab poverty”. China has come a long way since then, and so has Ms Shirk. Formerly at the State Department, and now a professor at UCSD, she has had plenty of more mature encounters with China's top leaders. In her book she says what she thought of them, observing, for instance, that President Jiang Zemin had an unfortunate tendency to show off. More

AG: City's Global Warming Plan Not Tough Enough
Voice of San Diego, July 5 -- The blueprint for San Diego's future development reflects the threats the city faces from global warming: scarcer water; increased wildfire risks; higher sea levels. But the blueprint concludes that the city's development -- and more than 360,000 new residents that will follow -- will bring an "unavoidable" increase in the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, even though the city could take steps to reduce those emissions. (Quotes Richard Somerville, professor at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More