A Sampling of Clips for 
June 18, 2004

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Careless Talk Costs Hives
The Guardian (London), June 17-Famously, some honey bees communicate through dance: once back in the hive with fellow workers, a bee with word of flowing nectar spreads the news by performing an elaborate "waggle dance". James Nieh, a biologist at the University of California, San Diego, reports online in the Proceedings of the Royal Society on evidence that this furtive language may have evolved as defense against espionage by enemy bees.
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Reagan's Death Renews Stem-Cell Call
Fox News Channel, June 17-Former President Ronald Reagan's death from complications due to Alzheimer's disease has spurred a new wave of support for human stem-cell research in an effort to find a cure for debilitating diseases. Alzheimer's disease is a brain disorder among older people that seriously affects a person's ability to carry out daily activities. The disease causes a loss of nerve cells in areas of the brain that are vital to memory and other mental abilities. (Quote by Larry Goldstein, a well-known stem-cell scientist at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,123015,00.html

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Wired News, June 18
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,63901,00.html

UCSD Scientists Study Electrical Stimulation to Brain
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 18-Altering the electrical activity in brain cells can change the chemicals they use to communicate with one other - a finding that someday may lead to new treatments for mood and learning disorders, UCSD scientists say. Their study, which appeared this month in the journal Nature, suggests that chemical imbalances in the brain that lead to depression, phobias, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other conditions could be alleviated not by drugs but by direct electrical stimulation to specific areas of the brain. (Quote by Nicholas Spitzer, a neuroscientist at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040618-9999-1m18brain.html

UCSD Official Will Do Year at Harvard
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 18-Marsha Chandler, the second-highest-ranking administrator at the University of California, San Diego, will take a one-year sabbatical to do research at Harvard University. Chandler, will leave after the summer to be a visiting professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. A political scientist by training, Chandler said she hopes to continue her studies of trade policy, research and government.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040618-9999-7m18briefs.html

Recurring Blood Clots More Likely in Men
WebMD, June 17-People who have had a life-threatening blood clot are at high risk of having another. But men's risk is four times that of women, a new study shows. (Quote by Lewis J. Rubin M.D., a researcher at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/88/100112.htm?
z=1728_00000_1000_nb_04

Mexicans Abroad Feel Vote's Tug
Dallas News, June 17-Before embarking this week on a trip to Chicago, Minneapolis and Detroit, Mexican President Vicente Fox sent a bill to Congress that would make Mexican immigrants eligible to vote overseas in his country's 2006 presidential elections. (Quote by Wayne Cornelius, a professor at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/dallas/
stories/061804dnmetvote.335c8.html

Sense and Censorship
Chronicle of Higher Education, June 18-Administrators at the University of California, San Diego temporarily shut down a student television station last month after learning that it had shown the video of the beheading of Nicholas Berg, an American civilian in Iraq. The video appeared on a program called Perfect Vision.
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v50/i41/41a00601.htm

Study Finds Border Pollution to Be a Byproduct of NAFTA
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 18-One of the most surprising environmental consequences of the North American Free Trade Agreement has been a big increase in pollution at Canadian, Mexican and U.S. border crossings, according to a new report by a three-nation environmental commission. Framers of the historic trade pact tried to address environmental problems by drawing up a side agreement - the first of its kind - and creating the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, based in Montreal, agency executive director William Kennedy said yesterday, during a speech at the Institute of the Americas at UCSD.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20040618-9999-1b18fta.html