A Sampling of Clips for
June 30, 2004
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Teen Girls
More Likely To Light Up If Stars Smoke
NBC Channel 4, Los Angeles, June 29-Teenage
girls who have never smoked
are far more likely to start smoking if their favorite movie
star smokes in movies, according to a new study by UCSD
researchers. The study's authors conclude after a three-year
project that on-screen smoking by popular actors is undermining
public health efforts to keep children from smoking. (Quote
by
study author John Pierce, director of the Cancer
Prevention and Control
Program at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.nbc4.tv/family/3474512/detail.html
Similar
stories appeared in:
Washington Times, June 30
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040629-105821-9310r.htm
ABC News, Australia,
June 29
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2004/s1143458.htm
United Press International,
June 30
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No link available online.
Reuters,
June 29
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews
&storyID=5545970§ion=news
Good Housekeeping,
June 29
http://magazines.ivillage.com/goodhousekeeping/hb/news/article/
0,,comtex_2004_06_29_up_0000-3453-bc-us-
WebMD Medical News,
June 29
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/89/100346.htm?lastselectedguid
=%7B5FE84E90-BC77-4056-A91C-9531713CA348%7D
Contra Costa Times,
June 29
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/9037402.htm?
ERIGHTS=5657746030032228522contracostatimes
Kansas City Channel,
June 29
http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/family/3474512/detail.html
How Polarization Sells
Washington Post, Opinion, June 30-Let
me raise a red flag about the "red and blue states,"
which is the reigning theory of U.S. politics. All those blue
states (heavily urban and mainly on the East and West coasts)
voted for Al Gore. The red states (more rural, Southern and
Western) voted for George Bush. Presto,
the map defines us. We're a country geographically "polarized"
by values and lifestyles. This is a masterful explanation for
the increasing nastiness of
politics, with only one big drawback. It's wrong. (Quote by
Gary Jacobson, a political scientist at the
University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16180-2004Jun29.html
Classy Success
San Diego Union-Tribune, Editorial,
June 30-Commencement ceremonies can produce reactions ranging
from sheer elation to weary resignation. But this afternoon's
scheduled gathering of the first graduating class of the Preuss
School and their families at UCSD's Manchester
Field should be a source of unalloyed pride and joy.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040630/news_lz1ed30top.html
New UCSD
Center to Study Genes, Disease
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 30-A
new research center at the University of California,
San Diego will study the genetic origins of disease,
the university announced yesterday. The Center for Human Genetics/Genomics
aims to increase science's understanding of human genes to better
diagnose and treat illnesses based on a person's individual
genetic makeup. (Quote by Anthony Wynshaw-Boris
M.D., the center's director and a UCSD professor
of pediatrics and medicine.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20040630-9999-2m30genome.html
UC Panel
Expected to Approve a Higher GPA for Admission
San Diego Union-Tribune, Eleanor Yang,
June 30-A University of California
faculty group is expected today to approve a plan that would
raise the
minimum grade-point average required for freshman admission.
The move is prompted by a report this spring which found that
UC is accepting from a
larger pool of eligible students than called for in the state's
Master Plan for
Higher Education. (Quote by Barbara Sawrey,
the head of a faculty
admissions committee.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20040630-9999-1n30uc.html
Similar
article appeared in:
Oakland Tribune, June 28
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82%
257E1726%257E2241648,00.html?search=filter
Questions
Answered
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 30-Q
& A with UCSD science writer Sherry Seethaler,
who answers science questions submitted by readers of the San
Diego Union-Tribune.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science
/20040630-9999-1c30sciqa.html
