A Sampling of Clips for
June 19 - 21, 2004
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Nancy's
Next Campaign
Newsweek, 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. (Refers to stem cell research
conducted by Larry Goldstein M.D. at the University
of California, San Diego.)
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Artworks
with Wattage
Los Angeles Times, June 21-"Supersonic,"
the sprawling exhibition that inaugurates the 16,000-square-foot
gallery at the new South Campus of Pasadena's Art Center College
of Design, illuminates emerging talent from six area art schools,
including UC San Diego. The show, brainchild
of painter, critic and Art Center professor Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe,
offers a terrific opportunity to survey new talent.
http://www.calendarlive.com/services/site/premium/access-premium-1.intercept
Recurrence
of Vein Clots Higher in Men Than Women
Reuters, June 18-Once someone has
had a blood clot in the veins, it is three times more likely
to happen again for a man than a woman, according to research
conducted in Austria. The investigators note in this week's
New England Journal of Medicine that until now it wasn't clear
whether gender played a role in the risk of recurrent venous
thromboembolism (VTE), as the condition is called. In an accompanying
editorial, Drs. C. Gregory Elliott of LDS Hospital in Salt Lake
City, Utah and Lewis J. Rubin from UC
San Diego say that the findings provide "a new
focus for future studies that seek to clarify the risks and
benefits of prolonged anti-coagulation in specific subgroups
of patients with venous thromboembolic disease."
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews
&storyID=5460148§ion=news
Latest News
in Brief from Northern Nevada
Associated Press, June 20-A team of
geologists from the University of California, San Diego,
will study a fault behind an elementary school in this north
Lake Tahoe community. If the team can determine when the last
major earthquake occurred on the fault, it can estimate whether
another will likely occur soon or in the distant future.
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A Call to Arms Along with the Thank-Yous
San Francisco Chronicle, June 20-Feisty
acceptance speeches marked the 2004 California Book Awards ceremony
last week. Though passions ran high, there were no fisticuffs,
perhaps in deference to William T. Vollmann, author of "Rising
Up and Rising Down," the seven-volume treatise on violence
that won the Silver Medal for Notable Contribution to Publishing.
The decline of California's educational system was touched on
by a passionate Bram Dijkstra, professor emeritus
of English literature at UC San Diego, who
was awarded the Silver Medal in Nonfiction for "American
Expressionism: Art and Social Change 1920-1950."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/06/20/RVGJ273T7Q1.DTL
Tone, Sweet
Dial Tone
Chicago Tribune, June 20-Pick up the
phone in your home, listen for a few seconds, and think about
what a dial tone means to you. It's an easy thing to take for
granted. But this deceptively simple sound may figure far more
into our lives than we realize. (Quote by Diana Deutsch,
a psychologist at the University of California at San
Diego.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0406200466jun20,1,7104107.story?coll=chi-technology-hed
Some Mexicans
in U.S. Going to Greater Lengths to Vote Back Home
Monterey Herald, June 21-In 1996,
Mexico granted its citizens who live in the United States the
right to cast absentee ballots, instantly creating 8 million
to 11 million likely voters, compared with about 65 million
registered voters in Mexico. But eight years later, a balloting
mechanism for the immigrants hasn't been created. (Quote by
Wayne Cornelius, a professor at the University
of California, San Diego.)
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/nation/8975415.htm
'The Last
Dance' Features Sushi to Go, and Here's Your Chance to Grab
a Piece of the Rock
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 20-Sushi
Performance and Visual Art, the venerable downtown organization
founded by Lynn Schuette in 1980 and long a national force for
progressive art and performance, will move out of its space
in the ReinCarnation Building near Petco Park after the coming
weekend's program titled "The Last Dance." For two
years, says Sushi's interim director, UC San Diego choreographer
Alysson Green, the organization will operate
as Sushi: Take-Out, a moveable feast of performances.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040620-9999-1a20welsh.html
Next Wave
of Digital Sound Will be High Definition
Copley News Service, June 21-Lumped
together as high-definition audio, or HD audio, the new digital
music 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. HD audio
formats allow music to be recorded and played on the multiple
channels of surround-sound systems such as Dolby Digital 5.1,
which has six channels compared with the two channels of traditional
CD stereo recordings. (Quote by Peter Otto,
technical director of the Department of Music at the University
of California San Diego.)
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Newspaper
Veteran Morgan Takes Views to the Airwaves
La Jolla Light, June 17-In his 54-year
career as an award-winning San Diego Union-Tribune columnist,
Neil Morgan was known as the "conscience of San Diego."
After a lifetime dedicated to the newspaper business, Morgan
is getting his feet wet in an entirely new media as he recently
began a new career as a radio commentator on KPBS. Among many
contributions, the biggest change Morgan wrought on his adopted
hometown came about when he helped bring UCSD
and the Salk Institute to La Jolla.
http://www.lajollalight.com/2004/06/17/n040617newspaper_veteran.html
