A Sampling of Clips for
June 06, 2003
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Plants thrive
on greenhouse effect
Daily Telegraph (London), June 6 –
The world has become a greener place in the past two decades
as a result of climate change, according to a major study published
today by researchers at University of California, San
Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the
University of Montana, Missoula. As the climate has warmed,
the Earth has become more lush and rich with vegetation, notably
in the Amazon rainforests. Although the greening of the globe
sounds like good news, co-author Charles Keeling
of Scripps said the 36 percent increase in global population,
from 4.45 billion in 1980 to 6.08 billion in 2000, overshadowed
the benefits that might have come from increases in plant growth.
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Associated Press,
June 6
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Panel warns
oceans' ecosystems are near collapse
San Jose Mercury News, June 4 –
Bringing the oceans' ecosystems back from the edge of collapse
- one recent study found that 90 percent of the world's big
fish have disappeared - requires dramatic, controversial and
expensive efforts to limit fishing, coastal development and
runoff from cities and farms, according to the Pew Oceans Commission.
Its report is the product of a three-year, $5.5 million study.
"People look at the ocean and it looks blue and peaceful
and as good as it always did, but you don't know what's going
on beneath the waves," said commission member Charles
Kennel, the director of University of California,
San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
"What is going on is a systematic decline of our marine
ecosystem. It's a global crisis."
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/6013805.htm
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Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette, June 5
More see attached file…Pew
Oceans Commission
Anchorage Daily News,
June 5
http://www.adn.com/front/story/3239535p-3269511c.html
Press Herald,
June 5
http://www.pressherald.com/news/state/030605ocean.shtml
KUHF (Houston Public
Radio), June 4 
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kuhf/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=504737
Environment News Service,
June 4
http://ens-news.com/ens/jun2003/2003-06-04-10.asp
Knight Ridder Washington
Bureau, June 5
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UCSD gets
$5 million stroke study grant
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 5 –
University of California, San Diego will receive
a $5 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological
Diseases and Stroke for new technology to help save stroke patients.
The UCSD Stroke Center will use the money for
a new ultrasound screening tool and to provide remote consultations
using wireless technology, so that more stroke patients can
receive thrombolysis treatments. (Quotes Dr. Patrick
Lyden, director of the UCSD Stroke
Center and principal investigator of the grant projects).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20030605-1109-stroke.html
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KFMB,
June 5
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Visionary
inspired leaders on both sides of the border
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 6 –
Chuck Nathanson, executive director of the
cross-border San Diego Dialogue whose visionary concept of a
binational community united and inspired leaders from both sides
of the U.S.-Mexico border, died in his sleep early yesterday.
Robert Dynes, chancellor of University
of California, San Diego, yesterday described Dr. Nathanson
as "a compelling local presence" who "served
town and gown superbly as strategist, ambassador, activist and
taskmaster." (Quotes Mary Walshok, vice
chancellor of UCSD extended studies and public
programs, and one of the organization's founders).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/metro/news_7m6nat2.html
Magazine
at UCSD lampoons Islam
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 6 –
Hundreds of copies of a publication portraying Muslim women
as sexual objects and ridiculing Jews, Jesus, and Palestinians
were distributed yesterday and Wednesday at the University
of California, San Diego, prompting sharp condemnations
by the administration and student leaders. UCSD
Vice Chancellor Joseph Watson yesterday sent
out a three-paragraph, campus-wide memo calling the publication
"obscene, vile and deplorable," deserving of the university's
"strongest condemnation." (Quotes Nick Aguilar,
director of student policies and judicial affairs).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20030606-9999_7m6muslim.html
New tool
for Big Brother or terrorist spotter?
La Jolla Light, June 5 – The
battle against terrorism is getting a boost thanks to an automated
surveillance system for detecting and tracking faces in a crowd
being developed at University of California, San Diego.
A federal interagency organization for combating terrorism,
the Technical Support Working Group, has awarded $600,000 to
the 18-month project led by Mohan Trivedi,
a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UCSD's
Jacobs School of Engineering.
http://www.lajollalight.com/2003/06/05/n030605new_tool.html
Groundbreaking
for Playhouse finally arrives
La Jolla Light, June 5 –Thanks
to a capital campaign that helped raise more than $39 million
for the La Jolla Playhouse at the University of California,
San Diego, officials have announced they are breaking
ground on a new complex June 7, and the entire community is
invited to help them celebrate.
http://www.lajollalight.com/2003/06/05/n030605playhouse_arrives.html
Anatahan
eruption prompts investigation
KUAM, June 5 – The eruption
of Anatahan has prompted the launch of a large-scale experiment.
Last month researchers from Washington University, University
of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institute
of Oceanography, and the Saipan Emergency Management Office
were aboard a ship, deploying seismographs in the Northern Mariana
Islands.
http://www.kuam.com/news/story.asp?headline=6307
