A Sampling of Clips for July 21^st, 2008

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Beijing Begins Massive Olympic Shutdown
FOX News, July 19 -- Beijing's Olympic shutdown begins Sunday, a drastic plan to lift the Chinese capital's gray shroud of pollution just three weeks ahead of the games. (Quotes Veerabhadran Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD) More

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Surfing the Universe
The New Yorker, July 21 – The New Yorker profiles Garrett Lisi, who earned a doctorate in physics from UCSD, and believes he might be onto a new Theory of Everything, a unifying idea that aims to incorporate all the universe’s forces in a single mathematical framework. More

'For the Love of Animals' Book Review
The Washington Post, July 20 -- Chances are that as you read these words you are in the company of one or more domestic animals. There is nothing new about this, which is one of the many useful points made by Kathryn Shevelow in “For the Love of Animals,” exceptionally interesting history of the animal protection movement in 18th and 19th century England. Shevelow teaches 18th-century British literature and culture at UCSD. More

Port Huron Project Reenacts Seminal Events of the 1960s
Los Angeles Times, July 19 -- On May 2, 1971, about 200 uniformed police surrounded the perimeter of Exposition Park while 30-odd plainclothes officers circulated through the crowd as farm labor leader César Chávez delivered a brief but impassioned speech decrying the Vietnam War at a rally sponsored by the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice. At 6 p.m. today in Exposition Park, Chávez's speech will be heard again -- this time delivered by UCSD visual arts assistant professor Ricardo Dominguez. More

Finding the Golden Genes
Science News, July 18 -- Advances in gene therapy could tempt some athletes to enhance their genetic makeup, leading some researchers to work on detection methods just in case. (Quotes Theodore Friedmann, a gene therapy expert at UCSD) More

Hot Money, Rampant Oil
Sunday Star Times, July 20 – On May 20, a neat, grey-suited hedge fund manager walked into room 342 of the imposing Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington DC and told a US government inquiry why oil prices had risen through the roof. (Quotes UCSD economist James Hamilton) More

Warming West is Ground Zero for Wildfires
San Francisco Chronicle, July 21 -- California has been hit by 2,000 fires this year, and climate scientists are predicting that the situation will worsen as temperatures rise. (Quotes Tim Barnett, a climatologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD) More

Eleanor Antin Exhibition Opens at Museum of Art
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 20 -- Eleanor Antin, visual artist, performance artist, filmmaker and professor emeritus at UCSD, is having her first museum exhibition in California in nine years. More

Novocell Looks to Stem Cells for Diabetes Cure
Voice of San Diego, July 21 -- Ed Baetge and the team of scientists he has led for seven years have had setbacks and disappointing days, but the prospect of finding the cure for Type I diabetes makes their research too tantalizing to give up. Especially now that Baetge believes that they’re on the brink of a medical breakthrough that could stave off the disease in humans. (Quotes Dr. Steven Chessler, a biomedical researcher at UCSD) More

Talent Pool
San Diego Magazine, July 21 – Not many people decide they want to go “underground” for their careers. Just ask Mike Chapin, CEO of Geocon, a San Diego–based geotechnical, environmental, geologic and materials testing firm. (Mention the UCSD Rady School of Management’s FlexMBA program) More

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