A Sampling of Clips for 
June 05 - 07, 2004

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Search Is On for Alzheimer's Cure as Boomers Age
Los Angeles Times, June 6-In the 10 years since Ronald Reagan hand-penned his poignant letter to the American people disclosing his diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, great scientific progress has been made in understanding the nature of the affliction, but few of the findings have made their way into clinical practice. Researchers at UC San Diego in April reported results from an eight-patient study that suggested gene therapy increasing the concentration of nerve growth factor in the brain could slow the progression of the disease.
http://www.latimes.com/la-na-alzheimers6jun06,1,1961359.story

Climate Politics Hinge on Free-Market Forces
Los Angeles Times, June 6-Buyers, sellers, brokers, lawyers, even "specialists in carbon asset creation management," convene Wednesday on the banks of the Rhine to launch a new business for a worried world. CarbonExpo, in the cavernous congress halls of Cologne, Germany, is a three-day trade fair for those who would deal in carbon dioxide - buying and selling permits to discharge the waste gas chiefly blamed for global warming. (Quote by David Pierce, a climatologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-adfg-climateiii6jun06,1,1867631.story?coll=la-news-politics-national

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CNN News, June 6
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/06/07/climate.challengeiii.ap

Associated Press, June 7
* No link available online.

Newsday, June 7
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-climate-challenge-iii,0,2996676.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

Wired Magazine, June 7
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,63739,00.html

Florida Ledger, June 7
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040607/API/406070643

Miami Herald, June 7
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/8848602.htm

San Jose Mercury, June 7
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/8850238.htm?1c

As the Earth Heats Up, Many Questions Remain
Los Angeles Times, June 6-Global warming could dry out farmlands, spark fiercer storms and raise ocean levels. Even skeptics agree it's time to act as studies continue. (Quote by V. Ramanathan of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-adna-climate6jun06,1,5592776.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

The Wireless World
Newsweek, June 7-Wireless isn't just for high-tech hubs anymore. Newsweek chose these cities and towns, including San Diego, to show the variety of ways people are using this new technology. If wireless technology has a birthplace, it's San Diego. In 1968, University of California, San Diego, professor Irwin Jacobs founded a company called Linkabit to create the world's first digital wireless-communications network. A special program at UCSD even offers a degree in wireless communications.
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Commentary: Can Drug-Busters Beat New Steroids?
Business Week, June 14-Scientists enlisted by anti-doping agencies are trying to stay a step ahead of the athletes who use body-enhancing drugs to cheat in competitive events such as the Olympics. At the University of California, San Diego, a team led by Theodore Friedmann, a pediatrics professor, is searching for tiny changes that occur in the body when it is exposed to certain genes that drug-testers could spot in a blood sample.
http://www.businessweek.com:/print/magazine/content/
04_24/b3887096_mz018.htm?tc

A Game of Concentration
Financial Times, (London), June 4-Scientists are discovering that the more effort you expend on a task requiring extreme vigilance, the worse your performance becomes, whether screening baggage for bombs, looking for rotten meat in a processing factory or watching for intruders at an industrial plant. As your effort increases, you quickly become tired and are more likely to make a mistake. And glazed eyes and an open-mouthed stare do little to help your case. (Refers to research conducted by Scott Makeig, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego.)
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Murray Goodman, Contributor to Field of Peptide Chemistry
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 5-Murray Goodman, a veteran University of California, San Diego professor who helped advance the field of peptide chemistry, died Tuesday in Munich, Germany. His subsequent work at UCSD, considered to be on the cutting edge of peptide synthesis, involved applying the latest molecular imaging techniques to determine peptide structure. (Quote by Clifford Kubiak, chairman of UCSD's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/obituaries/20040605-9999-1m5goodman.html

NEA Awards Grants to 3 San Diego Groups
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 4-John Welchman, longtime professor of modern art history in the Visual Arts Department of the University of California San Diego, has been named the first chair of the recently formed Southern California Consortium of Art Schools (SoCCAS). The organization, he says, "will promote exchange and engagement between the art schools the wider community and international audiences."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040604/news_1c4show.html

Local hero: Jefferson Mays
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 7-Backstage, after a moving performance of "I Am My Own Wife" on Broadway, Jefferson Mays rolled his eyes and said "Let's not even think about those." The UCSD grad was talking about the Tony Awards, one of which he won last night for best performance by a leading actor in a play.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040607-9999-lz1c7maysbox.html

Long and Winding Road Led Wright to his 'Wife'
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 7-Three summers ago at La Jolla Playhouse, Doug Wright's "I Am My Own Wife" didn't have a second act. Today it's the unlikeliest Best Play winner in recent Tony history. Since 2000, when Wright and friends Moisés Kaufman (the innovative director) and Jefferson Mays (the UCSD-trained actor, who also won a Tony last night) gathered at Utah's Sundance Theatre Lab, the trio has been working together to make a solo play from interviews Wright recorded in 1993 and 1994 with Charlotte, a collector of mass-produced, turn-of-the-century furniture in Mahlsdorf, west of Berlin.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040607-9999-lz1c7wife.html

2 Plays + 9 Nominations = Good Odds for Locals
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 6-Although the Tonys themselves are under fire, even the most contentious critics note that a pair of plays with nine Tony nominations between them stand above the fray: Old Globe Artistic Director Jack O'Brien's gorgeous and astute "Henry IV," which had a sold-out run at Lincoln Center last fall; and Doug Wright's disarming, La Jolla Playhouse-sprung solo play "I Am My Own Wife," starring UCSD grad Jefferson Mays. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040606-9999-1a6tony.html

With 'Henry IV,' It's II for Jack
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 7-The puppets of "Avenue Q" swept away the witches of "Wicked" with their own brooms at last night's Tony Awards, scoring a major upset as best musical. But San Diego-connected theater artists did some cleaning up of their own. "I Am My Own Wife," a project midwifed by La Jolla Playhouse three years ago," won best play honors for writer Doug Wright and the best leading actor in a play award for UCSD grad Jefferson Mays.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040607-9999-lz1c7mays.html

Governor Wants Plan for Coastline
Oakland Tribune, June 5-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday he wants a plan on his desk in 90 days on how the state can better manage state waters and seashore. "The health of our ocean resources and the economy they support benefits not only California, but also significantly contributes to national and international economies as well," California Resources Secretary Mike Chrisman said at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~2194614,00.html#

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KTVU News Channel 2, San Francisco, June 4
http://www.ktvu.com/news/3383705/detail.html

Contra Costa Times, June 5
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/living/science/8845512.htm?1c

San Jose Mercury News, June 4
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/8841643.htm

San Diego Union-Tribune, June 5
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20040605-9999-1n5ocean.html

North County Times, June 3
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/06/05/news/state/21_10_276_4_04.txt

Speaking Out About Alzheimer's
Seattle Times, June 7-People with dementia traditionally have retreated from regular life, rarely heard or seen. Former President Ronald Reagan, who died Saturday, was one of the first public figures to speak out and say, "I have Alzheimer's disease." But now a provocative grass-roots movement is under way. This cultural shift is being driven by earlier diagnosis, better medications that may slow symptoms and technology converging with the first wave of aging baby boomers being diagnosed with an early-onset form of the disease. (Quote by Lisa Snyder, a clinical social worker for the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001949838_speakout07m.html

Biotech companies to make their pitches in S.F.
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 5-Like carnival hucksters, representatives from biotechnology companies and cities from 56 countries will hawk their firms and hometowns on a jam-packed convention hall floor in San Francisco next week. It is an industry in adolescence that supporters say holds the promise of creating new treatments for mankind's worst diseases, making crops disease-resistant and improving methods of cleanup for environmental disasters. Helping California establish itself at the world's biotechnology hub is the combination of research institutions such as UCSD.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/20040605-9999-1b5biotech.html

Astronomers Look for Water, the Medium of Life
Copley News, June 7-Life needs liquid water. That might seem obvious, but a lot of biologists have given the topic a lot of thought. And NASA, in its search for life in the solar system, has spent hundreds of millions of dollars designing spacecraft with one mission in mind: follow the water. (Discussed research by Jeffrey Bada, a researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
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Super Audio
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 7-Lumped together as high-definition audio, or HD audio, the new formats are doing for music what high-definition TV is doing for television, recording it in higher detail and playing it back at a higher fidelity, or a more lifelike way. (Quote by Peter Otto, technical director of the Department of Music at UC San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/personaltech/20040607-9999-mz1b7audio.html