A Sampling of Clips for 
June 14, 2005

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Future Entrepreneurs Get Down to Business
NPR, June 11-At the University of Washington's business school, participants in a business-plan contest had to defend their proposals in front of a jury of investors and professionals. The top plan won a $25,000 award. (Interview with Robert S. Sullivan, founding Dean of the Rady School at UCSD.) More

RF IC Tools Still Seeking Paths to Silicon
Electronic Engineering Times, June 13-RF design tools that help engineers visualize the performance of radio-frequency blocks are capitalizing on two trends: the popularity of all things wireless and the availability of more-powerful computing platforms that are able to simulate the performance of much larger circuits. (Refers to research by UCSD.) More

Workers Strike at UCSD Hospitals
NBC San Diego, June 13-Disgruntled clerical workers walked off their jobs at UCSD on Monday. The protest was part of a statewide labor action that some are calling illegal. The workers said the protest was a response to a yearlong impasse in contract negotiations, but officials with UCSD told NBC 7/39 that the strike was damaging the negotiation process. More

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Many Immigrants Lack Health Insurance
Sacramento Bee, June 14-Immigrants account for about a quarter of the nation's uninsured population - and more than one in every four uninsured immigrants lives in California, a new study shows. (Quote by Richard Kronick, a professor in the department of family and preventive medicine at UCSD.) More

Brain-Based Values
American Scientist, Opinion, July 2005-Book review by Patricia Churchland, chair of the UCSD philosophy department and University of California President's Professor of Philosophy. More

Everyone Talks About the Weather, but who puts it Online?
North County Times, June 14-As hurricane season begins to drench the Gulf States and late spring thunderstorms rattle windows in the Northeast, some of us who grew up in places that have actual weather can get a bit home sick. (Mentions Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More