A Sampling of Clips for 
June 04, 2003

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Protein Critical For Development In Fruit Flies Found To Aid Healing Of Cuts And Wounds In Mammals
ScienceDaily, June 3 – A protein essential for the normal embryonic development of fruit flies is also used by mammals to assist in the timely healing of cuts and lacerations, according to a new study led by Randall S. Johnson, an associate professor of biology at the University of California, San Diego. The researchers in the Johnson lab were assisted by Kit Pogliano, an associate professor of biology at USCD, and researchers from other universities.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/06/030603082811.htm

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BBC News, June 2
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2956762.stm

Smartcams Take Aim at Terrorists
Wired News, June 4 – The Department of Defense awarded $600,000 to Mohan Trivedi, director of the Computer Vision and Robotics Research lab at the University of California, San Diego for further development of DIVAs, cameras that see, think and communicate. These distributed digital video arrays, or DIVAs, are collections of really smart cameras able to detect and identify an individual in a crowded train station and track him wherever he goes -- out of the station, into the parking lot, onto the freeway and so on. (Quotes Mohan Trivedi, director of the DIVA project and professor at UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering).
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59092,00.html

Feeling flat? You may think you're a table
Daily Telegraph (London), June 4 – According to a bizarre experiment that sheds new light on body image disorders such as anorexia, people can be persuaded to feel like a table. Scientists have already reported on one odd illusion that occurs when a person cannot see their own hand but can see a rubber hand placed next to them on a table. When both are tapped and stroked in a sequence simultaneously, the subject experiences the illusion that the touch sensation came from the fake hand. Vilayanur Ramachandran and Carrie Armel of the University of California, San Diego further studied the experiment and discovered that subjects often reported sensations arising from the table surface, despite the fact that it bears no visual resemblance to a hand, according to a report today in the Proceedings B journal of the Royal Society.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F06%2F04%2Fwtable04.xml

Informal talks at UCSD may ease tensions between U.S., N. Korea
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 4 – Sixteen American scholars and former government officials sat down with four North Korean officials to discuss everything from the countries' mutual hostilities to North Korea's prospects for economic reform yesterday at the University of California, San Diego. Susan Shirk, a former U.S. State Department official and a graduate professor of UCSD who helped organize the conference, said the meeting was one of the first times in recent memory the two countries have had such a direct, open exchange.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20030604-9999_7m4korea.html

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San Diego Union-Tribune, NEIL MORGAN, June 4
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/morgan/20030604-9999_1m4morgan.html

Examining the Tech Transfer
Washington Post, June 4 – Washington’s economic development officials say that repurposing research funded by universities or the federal government for the commercial sector is rare. Even though the Washington area is a national leader in federal and university research spending, few of the fruits of that work make it into the private sector. Many major technology companies got their start with close ties to universities, such as Hewlett-Packard Co. with Stanford, Polaroid Corp. with MIT and Qualcomm Inc. with the University of California, San Diego, where as schools in the Washington area have few such ties.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10247-2003Jun3.html

Three Bodies Found in Texas Rail Car
Los Angeles Times, June 4 – Investigators scouring a train yard discovered the decomposed bodies of two men and a teenager in a rail car Tuesday, shortly after three Mexican citizens told a priest that they had managed to escape the stifling car but were forced to leave their dying friends behind. The discovery came the same day that U.S. and Mexican authorities announced a renewed program of vigilance to discourage, apprehend and rescue people crossing the border illegally. (Quotes Wayne Cornelius, director of University of California, San Diego's Center for Comparative Immigration Studies).
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Study finds higher rates of specific birth defects in Gulf War veterans' children
Associated Press, June 4 – Children of veterans of the first Gulf War are more likely to have three specific birth defects than those of soldiers who never served in the gulf, a government study has found. Researchers found the infants born to male veterans of the 1991 war had higher rates of two types of heart valve defects. They also found a higher rate of a genital urinary defect in boys conceived after the war to Gulf War veteran mothers.(Quotes Dr. Maria Rosa Araneta, a perinatal epidemiologist teaching at the University of California, San Diego).
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Baseline Health Measurements To Be Taken
NBC San Diego, June 3 – The Pentagon has announced it will medically screen everybody coming home from the war in Iraq, a sweeping order that affects all branches of the service and thousands of men and women from San Diego County. The screening is being performed because Defense Department officials want to know now if there are any problems among members of the military who are returning from Iraq. The Pentagon doesn't have any reason to suspect that there is, but they're trying to learn from experience. (Quotes Dr. Irving Jacoby of University of California, San Diego Healthcare).
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/health/2247118/detail.html

Scripps loses fight for patients' court awards
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 4 – In a case involving Scripps Mercy Hospital and a Mira Mesa student, the California Supreme Court has ruled that hospitals may no longer get a share of court awards paid to Medi-Cal patients who win lawsuits against those who caused their injuries. The justices ruled unanimously that the practice, allowed under a 1992 California law, is prohibited by federal statutes. (Quotes Dr. Lawrence Schneiderman, medical ethicist at University of California, San Diego).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20030604-9999_1m4recover.html

How Australia keeps punching above its weight
Canberra Times (Australia), OPINION, June 4 – Clive Williams, director of terrorism studies at the Strategic and Defence Studies Center of the ANU and a visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego discusses the different perceptions and attitudes of Americans and Australians. Williams teaches a Spring Quarter Masters program in terrorism at UCSD.
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