A Sampling of Clips for
June 15, 2004
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Can Drug-Busters Beat New
Steroids?
Business
Week, June 14-The demand for ''designer steroids''
is surging, the tools to create them are widespread, and the
designers are rolling in dough. Unfortunately, the same can't
be said for scientists trying to combat doping. As scientists
struggle to invent tests that determine if athletes are using
body-enhancing drugs, without major infusions of cash, the drug
dealers will maintain the upper hand. (Refers to research led
by Theodore Friedmann, a pediatrics professor
at UC San Diego.)
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Your Home
By the Numbers
Business Week, June 14- A house is
most Americans' most valuable asset, and lately it has been
the best-performing. In some ways, though, it's the least understood
component of the average investment portfolio. Financial advice
on homeownership consists mainly of real estate agents' truisms:
Buy the most house you can afford... The housingse market never
crashes... Houses are better to own than stocks and bonds because
they're tangible. These sales slogans are a poor substitute
for serious analysis of an asset that's critical to your financial
future. (Quote by Marjorie Flavin, an economist
at the University of California at San Diego.)
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UCSD Wants
To Greatly Expand Its Student Body
NBC Channel 7/39, June 14-University
of California, San Diego plans to expand its student
body by about 25 percent over the next 16 years, according to
a long-term plan proposed by campus officials. UCSD
says it will grow from approximately 24,000 to 30,000 students,
with the bulk of the increase in graduate students.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/education/3417013/detail.html
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article appeared in:
San Jose Mercury News, June 14
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/8921287.
htm?ERIGHTS=-2069265250852385252mercurynews
San Luis Obispo Tribune,
June 14
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/politics/8921287.htm
Herald Tribune,
June 14
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/
20040614/APN/406140814
18 Years
of Solitude
Los Angeles Times, June 15-The mystery
of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island, the women who survived
alone on an island for 18 years, has intrigued scientists for
generations. Surrounded by the reminders of her family and friends
-- huts, tools, bowls, necklaces -- the marooned woman had to
find a way through a life unwitnessed and unshared. What thoughts
could have overridden the despair to keep her brain healthy
and prevent a descent into madness or a leap off one of numerous
nearby cliffs? Steven Schwartz, an archeologist and environmental
planner for the U.S. Navy, has been trying to solve that mystery.
(Quote by Larry Palinkas, a psychologist and
professor at UC San Diego.)
http://www.latimes.com/features/outdoors/la-os-island15jun15,1,5224778.story
Meet the
President
The Guardian (London), June 15-How
can vice chancellors whip up cash, alongside all their other
duties? Guardian reporter Rebecca Smithers talks to professor
Eric Thomas, the vice-chancellor of Bristol University, with
ideas about how the job should change. (Refers to the fundraising
campaign for UCSD's La Jolla Playhouse.)
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Clean Cars
Lean on Dirty Old Gas
Wired Magazine, June 14-Some would-be
architects of the clean-energy future want you to fuel up on
hydrogen produced from a rather familiar source: gasoline. Working
in labs in Russia and Canada, both major oil producers, the
scientists say they have developed a catalyst that converts
gasoline into hydrogen in a series of emissions-free reactions
that can power a fuel-cell car for up to 500 kilometers. After
that a cartridge containing the catalyst (in one possible scenario)
would have to be removed from the vehicle to be refilled with
hydrogen. (Quote by William C. Kaska, a professor
at the University of California at San Diego.)
http://www.wired.com/news/autotech/0,2554,63787,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5
Dancers Get Lesson In Anatomy
By Watching Live Surgery
San
Diego Channel 10, June 14-A dancer's body can
really take a pounding, especially in the knees. So to learn
more about the physical dangers, University of California,
San Diego dance students are able to watch a live video
feed of knee surgeries. When performing a knee arthroscopy,
UCSD orthopedic surgeon Robert Pedowitz
M.D. shows dance students the complexities of the knee.
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/health/3417787/detail.html
Local Ex-Diplomat
Who Served Under Bush Seeks His Ouster
NBC Channel 7/39, June 15-A group
of former diplomats and military commanders -- which includes
a former diplomat who is now a University of California,
San Diego official -- is urging Americans to vote President
George W. Bush out of office in November. Jeffrey Davidow,
a retired diplomat who served under President Bush, joined the
organization that is urging Americans to vote his old boss out
of the White House. Davidow is now president
of the Institute of the Americas at UCSD.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/politics/3418527/detail.html
Dream Team
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 15-A
group of San Diego third graders recently won a second-place
prize in the Toshiba/National Science Teachers Association's
annual "ExploraVision" program for their imaginary
invention entitled "The Sleep Doctor." It would monitor
electrical activity in the brain to figure out when someone
is having a nightmare. It would then release familiar sounds
and smells to comfort the frightened sleeper. The Holmes Elementary
School third graders went to a sleep lab at UCSD
for a tour and learned about the various stages of slumber.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040615-9999-1n15award.html
Chancellor's
Departure Delays N.C. State Fund Raising
Charlotte Observer, June 14-The loss
of a chancellor has pushed back by a year North Carolina State's
ambitious plan to raise $1 billion and join the ranks of top
fund-raising universities. But the university is already halfway
to its goal. Chancellor Marye Anne Fox's pending
departure for a job at UC San Diego, delayed
kickoff plans for the campaign to fall 2005.
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/8920767.htm?ERIGHTS=-4459003810474300795charlotte
Sonora Survey
Firm in the Air
Modesto Bee, June 15-An earth science
company based in Tuolumne County is establishing official government
survey points between Modesto and Bakersfield, carrying on work
that its leader ties to "the foundations of the United
States." Under a $320,000 contract from a San Diego institution,
Condor Earth Technologies is fine-tuning survey points that
were started under Thomas Jefferson. The California Spatial
Reference Center, headquartered at the Scripps Institution
of Oceanography in San Diego, is in charge of ensuring
survey integrity in California.
http://www.modbee.com/local/story/8712500p-9588793c.html
