A Sampling of Clips for 
June 26 - 28, 2004

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Early Snowmelt Ignites Global Warming Worries
Los Angeles Times, June 28-There was no shortage of snow here last winter. But under a withering sun, the snowmelt started in mid-March, in what appears to be one of the earliest onsets in almost 90 years. Some scientists suspect it is another sign that climate change is eroding the Sierra Nevada snowpack, the state's main source of water. (Quote by Jessica Lundquist, a researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-yosemite28jun28,1,7109060.story

Same article appeared in:
WB Channel 5, Los Angeles, June 28
http://ktla.trb.com/news/local/la-me-yosemite28jun28,0,7026144.story?coll=ktla-news-1

The Word Infrasound
New Scientist, June 26-Acoustics researchers have monitored infrasound waves for over a century. During the 1950s and 1960s, infrasound sensors were used to track atmospheric nuclear tests, and now a global network of 60 sensors is being built to help police the UN Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Scientists are excited because the network will also provide useful data about natural atmospheric phenomena. Researcher Michael Hedlin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, for example, hopes to hear "extremely low-frequency signatures" from hurricanes.
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Successful Commencement
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 27-On Wednesday, 55 teenagers from the far reaches of San Diego County will be the first to graduate from The Preuss School, an intensive college-preparatory charter school developed by UCSD for disadvantaged students. All of the graduates are from low-income families, most are minorities and none of their parents earned college degrees. These students are statistically among the least likely to make it to college. Still, this fresh crop of high school graduates - the children of refugees, migrant workers, housekeepers and working-class families - have been accepted to some of the country's top universities after attending Preuss since the eighth grade.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040627/news_lz1n27preuss.html

Scripps Researcher Wins Prestigious Award
North County Times, Sept. 26-A professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego is the winner of the 2004 E.O. Wilson Naturalist Award for his environmental work. Paul Dayton, who is with the Integrative Oceanography Division at Scripps, was honored by the American Society of Naturalists for contributions to understanding kelp forests, rocky intertidal communities and organisms that live near the bottom of the ocean in the Antarctic.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/06/26/special_
reports/science_technology/16_51_286_25_04.txt

Similar article appeared in:
City News Service, June 25
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New Protein Therapy Could Ease the Pain of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Alameda Times-Star, June 27-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, UCSD researchers may eventually be able to re-educate the body, teaching it to halt its self-destructive ways. (Quote by Salvatore Albani M.D., a professor of medicine and pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.timesstar.com/Stories/0,1413,125~1549~2238718,00.html#

School Notes
Contra Costa Times, June 27-Eight West Contra Costa students will start Tech Trek 2004 today, a weeklong camp that features hands-on activities in math and science. Camp participants are assigned to either a math or science course they attend each day. In past years the camp project, which began in 1998, has been held in colleges such as Stanford University, Fresno State, UC San Diego and Whittier College.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/living/education
/9024506.htm?ERIGHTS

Escondido Spotlight
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 26-Information about the latest research in Alzheimer's disease will be offered in Escondido next week. Mary Sundsmo of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at University of California, San Diego will be the speaker. The presentation will be from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at Silverado Senior Living, 1500 Borden Road, Escondido. Topics will include detection methods, drugs and future targets for research.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20040626-9999-m1m26dbesc.html

Study Links Estrogen Pills to Higher Risk of Dementia
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 23-Estrogen pills appear to slightly increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia in postmenopausal women, a study found, echoing recent findings involving estrogen-progestin supplements. The findings contradict the long-held belief that estrogen pills can help keep older women's minds sharp. (Quote by Leon Thal M.D., chairman of the UCSD Department of Neurosciences.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040623/news_1n23estrogen.html

Restaurants' Unconventional Polls Offer Food for Thought -- and Accuracy
Ottawa Citizen, June 27-While satisfying a hamburger craving yesterday in Ottawa, Art Hitsman cast a mock ballot in the Lick's burger poll. The Lick's Burger poll has captured notoriety by accurately predicting the last two federal elections and the 2003 Ontario election -- coming within three percentage points of the popular vote tally each time. (Quote by Paul Kedrosky, business professor at the University of California, San Diego.)
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May Holds Clues
Copley News Service, June 28-On the western edge of Greenland, where the Jakobshavn ice fjord flows toward the sea, the story of Earth's climate is laid out like chapters in a book. In July, scientists will travel to a tiny camp there, and for six weeks they'll dig just beneath the surface, where tiny bubbles of air trapped for thousands of years record an atmosphere long gone. (Quote by Jeff Severinghaus, a climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego and part of the Greenland research team.)
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New Trade Agreements Haven't Gained NAFTA-Like Attention
Copley News, June 28-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.)
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Political Mischief-Makers Turn Search-Engine Results Into Insults
Copley News Service, June 28-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. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a political scientist at the University of California San Diego.)
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'Maids' is Compelling, If Uneven
San Diego Union-Tribune, Review, June 28-An orphan, thief, homosexual, and thus, the ultimate outsider, Jean Genet found pleasure in subversion, middle-class expectations be damned. Writing transformed him from a criminal to an artist, and his plays are filled with such acts of transformation, none comforting, however. Even the clearest of his plays, "The Maids" (1947), challenges directors and actors. UCSD designer Kevin Judge has worked a little metamorphosis of his own, transforming the theater space into an opulent, if suffocating boudoir, a kind of enticing womb with every surface covered in soft fabric.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040628-9999-1c28maids.html