A Sampling of Clips for July 30^th, 2008

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Deportation Tied to Higher HIV Risk for Men Injecting Drugs
Forbes, July 30 -- The odds of HIV infection increase fourfold for male injection drug users who were deported to Tijuana from the United States compared to non-deportees in the Mexican border city, a new UCSD study reports. More

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UC-San Diego to Explore How to Make University Data Centers Greener
Chronicle of Higher Education, July 29 -- Researchers at UCSD are launching an experiment to test and improve the energy efficiency of computing systems used for scientific research. More

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'This Was a Warning'
Newsweek, July 30 -- Graham Kent, a seismologist and geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, studies the complex series of fault lines that run beneath California's surface. Newsweek’s Jamie Reno spoke with Kent about yesterday’s quake in Los Angeles and the threat that possible future quakes pose to Southern California. More

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San Andreas Fault Longer Than Thought
FOX News, July 30 -- As if the San Andreas Fault weren't long and menacing enough, newly found mud pots and mud volcanoes now suggest it extends another 18 miles, going under the Salton Sea and beyond, into the desert southeast of Palm Springs. (Quotes Yuri Fialko at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD) More

Spike Seen In Prescription Overdose Deaths
KTVU, Oakland, Calif., July 30 -- Deaths from medication mistakes at home, like actor Heath Ledger's accidental overdose, rose dramatically during the past two decades, an analysis of U.S. death certificates led by a UCSD researcher finds. More

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Princeton Review Rankings are In, and UC Santa Cruz Holds Its Own
San Jose Mercury News, July 30 -- Drum roll please. The results are in for this year's Princeton Review Best College Rankings UC Berkeley ranked No. 5 and UCSD scored sixth for Best Value Public College. More

Port Panel OKs Funding for New Science Center
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 30 -- The Port of San Diego's Environmental Committee yesterday recommended giving $301,000 to the newly formed Center for Bay and Coastal Change. San Diego State University partnered with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD to create the center, which will be housed at the SDSU Coastal Laboratory near Lindbergh Field. More

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