A Sampling of Clips for 
June 12 - 14, 2004

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Easing Arthritis Pain
Los Angeles Times, June 14-Diseases in which the body attacks its own tissue are among the most difficult to understand and treat. But in the case of one such disorder, rheumatoid arthritis, researchers may eventually be able to reeducate the body, teaching it to halt its self-destructive ways. In a recent study, Salvatore Albani M.D., a professor of medicine and pediatrics at UC San Diego, and his colleagues demonstrated that a synthetic peptide -- a chain of amino acids -- in the form of a tablet, appears to disrupt the immune response in people with rheumatoid arthritis without causing side effects.
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-lab14jun14,1,6191490.story

A Nation Divided? Who Says?
New York Times, June 13-If you've been following the election coverage, you know how angry you're supposed to be. This has been called the Armageddon election in the 50-50 nation, a civil war between the Blue and the Red states, a clash between churchgoers and secularists hopelessly separated by a values chasm and a culture gap. But do Americans really despise the beliefs of half of their fellow citizens? These academics say it's not the voters but the political elite of both parties who have become more narrow-minded and polarized. (Quote by Gary C. Jacobson, a political scientist at the University of California at San Diego.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/13/weekinreview/13tier.html

Nancy's Next Campaign
MSNBC News, June 21-Nancy Reagan's bold challenge to her own Republican Party and to Bush's 2001 policy on embryonic research was a pivotal moment for stem-cell advocates. For months they had been rallying across the country; with Nancy's support, and now with her husband's death and heroic farewell, they have found fresh momentum. Last week in Washington, 58 senators, including John Kerry, sent a letter to the White House, urging Bush to relax his restrictions on embryonic-stem-cell research. (Refers to stem-cell research conducted by Larry Goldstein M.D., a scientist at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5198584/site/newsweek/

Murray Goodman; Headed UC San Diego Chemistry Department
Los Angeles Times, June 12-Murray Goodman, 75, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego who helped advance the field of peptide chemistry, died of pneumonia June 1 in Munich, Germany, while on a lecture tour. He joined the UC San Diego faculty in 1970 and served as head of the chemistry department for six years.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-passings12jun12,1,7980836.story

UCSD Ready to Take a Major Forward Step
San Diego Union-Tribune, Eleanor Yang, June 13-UC San Diego is about to enter its final spurt of growth. Over the next 16 years, the university will reach its built-out size of nearly 30,000 students, with developed space on campus nearly doubling, according to a recently released long-term plan. The plan, which is the 44-year-old university's fifth, calls for significantly more graduate students, an "urban downtown" with more retail shops and a more than doubling of space for medicine and research.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20040613-9999-1m13ucsd.html

UCSD Tests New Bridge Construction Method
NBC Channel 7/39, San Diego, June 11-Researchers at the Jacobs School of Engineering are testing a new construction method. They want to see what happens to a new bridge design when the ground starts to move. At UCSD, engineers are testing a design technique called pre-cast construction, which has been used in Europe and other parts of the United States. (Quote by Frieder Sieble, dean at UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering.)
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/3411105/detail.html

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San Diego Union-Tribune, June 13
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20040613-9999-m1m13trevco.html

San Diego Channel, June 11
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/news/3409912/detail.html

Crackdown on 'Coyotes' Gets Results
Los Angeles Times, June 13-Suspected human smugglers caught in California's Imperial Valley are being handed over to Mexican authorities for prosecution as part of a pilot program that has been so successful in disrupting some illegal immigration that authorities want to expand the effort across the Southwest. (Quote by Wayne Cornelius, director for the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UC San Diego.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-guide13jun13,1,3575700.story

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Baltimore Sun, June 13
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.immigrants13jun13,0,2475824.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines

Term Limits' Effect on Diversification
Los Angeles Times, Opinion, June 14- UC San Diego's Assistant Professor Thad Kousser, comments about a recent LA Times article titled, "Age Before Duty". He believed it provided a thoughtful and balanced look at the retirement of four veteran state legislators due to term limits. However, it reflected one piece of conventional wisdom -- that term limits have caused California's Legislature to "look more like California."
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-le-kousser14.1jun14,1,3778400.story

Bush's Policies Hinder Scientific Work, Critics Say
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 14-UC San Diego scientist Larry Goldstein has a theory, one that might someday lead to new drugs for Alzheimer's victims. He has tested his theory on fruit flies and mice, and now he needs to test it on human brain cells. But White House policies that limit stem-cell research have turned Goldstein into what he calls "an accountant and a lawyer," requiring him to create a convoluted accounting system and a privately funded lab to ensure that he does not use federal money for his studies. Goldstein has enough private funding that he can pursue his research in spite of White House restrictions, but other scientists are not so lucky.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20040614-9999-1n14science.html

Spinal Trial Raises Hopes
New Scientist, June 12-The initial trial of a controversial method for treating spinal cord injuries within two weeks of an accident suggests it may be partly successful. More patients recovered some sensation and movement than would normally be expected, the company behind the trial claims. Independent experts say the results look promising, but caution that with just 16 people treated so far, it is too early to draw any conclusions. Some worry that the technique is risky and could cause serious problems in the long term. (Quote by Mark Tuszynski, a professor of neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego.)
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On a Beautiful Day, a Degree of Relief
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 13-For the people who became graduates of John Muir College at the University of California, San Diego yesterday, there was advice and humor. Class of 2004 graduate Seth Klonsky, one of two speakers chosen by students, used his five-minute speech to take good-hearted jabs at Revelle College and to remind fellow graduates of fun times at events such as house ski trips and the sun god party and its 4 a.m. finish. The John Muir commencement is one of seven ceremonies in which UCSD was expected to graduate 4,500 students on the La Jolla campus this weekend.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20040613-9999-1m13grads.html

Bush's New Focus on Economy May Face Voter Skepticism
Bloomburg, June 14-President George W. Bush is taking credit for U.S. growth and job creation in new television ads and campaign speeches, a strategy that may backfire with voters skeptical about signs of economic recovery. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a political science professor at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=at3.
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Bringing Biotech into Real World
San Francisco Chronicle, June13-The rise and fall of new molecules in the real world of commerce often has little to do with science. In biotechnology, the future arrives in fits and starts. So all the drug developers can do is to keep working and hope the money doesn't run out. Plenty of promising research is being done right now that has the potential to yield the Next Big Thing in biotech, be it a drug or just some fundamentally different ways of unraveling the complexities of human biology and disease. Such possibilities are, by their very nature, unpredictable. (Quote by Larry Goldstein, professor of cellular and molecular medicine at UC San Diego.)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/06/13/BUG9974HGF1.DTL

World Events Shifts Business Focus to Anti-Terror Programs
Copley News, June 14-The Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology in San Diego had barely opened for business when it was overtaken by the events that followed the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. What had begun in the summer of 2001 as a Pentagon-funded program to foster new technologies in "crisis consequence management" shifted its focus to a slightly different mission: to spur innovations in fighting terrorism. Since its inception in July 2001, CCAT has received $15.6 million in federal funding and has awarded $9.5 million in grants to academic researchers and private entrepreneurs. Of 509 applications, CCAT has agreed to support 93 clients with 136 awards providing grants and services. Applicants that need help with product development or engineering research typically get help from Orincon or the Jacobs School of Engineering at University of California San Diego.
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Dropping 'Google-Bombs'
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 14-Old-school political dirty tricks such as registering dead voters may not be obsolete, but they're getting some high-tech competition. Savvy political pranksters are increasingly "Google-bombing" the opposition, which is to say they're manipulating the result of the world's most popular search engine so that a query for "miserable failure" yields President Bush's official White House biography page, for example. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/personaltech/20040614-9999-mz1b14google.html

Heavy Lifting Ahead
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 13-In the past six months, President Bush has launched an unprecedented blitz of trade deals. He has pushed through Congress a trade pact with Singapore, signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA, with Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua - although it still requires congressional approval - and has prepared drafts of similar agreements with Bahrain and the Dominican Republic. (Quote by Richard Feinberg, an economics professor at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20040613-9999-lz1b13heavy.html

Forecast Has Attention of Earthquake Experts
North County Times, June 14-Scientists and disaster response officials, while excited that the elusive dream of predicting earthquakes may be within reach, are not exactly sounding the alarm about the shaker UCLA Professor Vladimir Keilis-Borok says will rattle Southern California by summer's end. And it doesn't help that a hit anywhere in 12,000 square miles stretching from Barstow to Mexico, and from Palomar Mountain to the Salton Sea, will be enough to say the scientist is three for three. (Quote by Bernard Minster, a UC San Diego seismologist and Southern California Earthquake Center board member.)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/06/13/news/top_stories/
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Polish Avant-Garde Jazz Masters Come to the Athenaeum
La Jolla Light, June 10-Avant-garde jazz might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Poland. But in the international jazz community, the Tomasz Stanko Quartet is redefining what cool means. Many fans still remember the November 2002 Tomasz Stanko Quartet performance that sold out 360 seats at the Neurosciences Center at UCSD, and were happy to see their return in San Diego.
http://www.lajollalight.com/2004/06/10/a040610polish.html