A Sampling of Clips for 
June 07 - 09, 2003

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'Other side of town'; Nathanson spanned the border with ideas
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 7—Ever since the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo imposed an international border between San Diego and Tijuana in 1848, the two cities have operated largely with their backs turned toward each other. Chuck Nathanson dedicated his professional life to changing this historical happenstance. As executive director of UCSD's San Diego Dialogue, he labored energetically to bridge the border in countless ways and create a unique binational community.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sat/opinion/news_mz1ed7bottom.html

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North County Times, June 7, 2003
http://www.nctimes.net/news/2003/20030607/65843.html

 

Cyber-Alert: Portrait of an Ex-Hacker
Business Week, June 9—A journey into the mind of Kevin Mitnick shows just how vulnerable companies are to Internet crime (On Christmas Eve, 1994, he hacked into the computer of Tsutomu Shimomura, a highly respected security expert at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Bad move.)
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Fished Out
U.S. News & World Report, June 9—In a series of recent reports, scientists warn that fish stocks are dangerously overexploited and that many of the methods used to harvest the fish, crustaceans, and mollusks we so enjoy are destroying the very ocean habitats and ecosystems needed to rebuild the stocks. It's not too late to rescue the oceans--and keep seafood on our plates. (Includes quotes from Scripps Institution of Oceanography ecologist Jeremy Jackson).
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030609/misc/9oceans.htm

Neglected oceans: America must lead in managing the seas
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 8—A comprehensive study by the Pew Oceans Commission synthesizes all the dangers to our seas and proposes detailed solutions, the most notable of which is the establishment of a national ocean policy and an independent national oceans agency. (Commission includes Charles Kennel, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/opinion/news_mz1e8top.html

Stony silence as a defense; masking strong emotions with a neutral expression may help diminish confrontation—but at a cost.
Los Angeles Times, June 9—Psychologists have long said that masking strong emotion is one of many social deceptions that allow people to navigate everyday life. But in about a dozen experiments over the last several years, researchers have documented both physical and emotional distress when people hide their emotions, whether they're alone or in company, embarrassed or angry. (Quotes Nicholas Christenfeld, a research psychologist at UC San Diego).
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-pokerface9jun09,1,4065771.story

UCSD Researchers Demonstrate Protein Role Required For Normal Brain Development
Science Daily, June 9—An essential step in understanding how the brain develops and related brain disorders that occur when the movement of neurons is defective, has been announced by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine in the July 2003 print edition of the journal Nature Genetics. The study is published online by the Nature website on June 8.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/06/030609010457.htm

UCSD medical school's class of 2003 has impressive, eclectic mix of talents
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 9, 2003--Many gathered under a cloudy sky yesterday to honor 79 men and 65 women who slogged through tough years of education to earn their white coats.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20030609-9999_1m9ucmd.html

Supercomputer Center Pushes the Storage Envelope
Enterprise IT Planet, June 6—Imagine a server with 110 Terabytes of hard disk. That's roughly what the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, better known as NCSA, has developed. This huge SAN is part of an even larger experiment in large-scale computing in which NCSA and five other research facilities around the country are creating a massive storage- and compute grid which will have more than 1 petabyte (1 quadrillion bytes) of storage capacity. Called TeraGrid, the grid is being built by NCSA along with supercomputing centers at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of California at San Diego, Argonne National Laboratory, and the California Institute of Technology.
http://www.enterpriseitplanet.com/storage/news/article.php/2218261

Hate Publication Papers Circulate UCSD Campus
KGTV, June 7—University of California, San Diego, officials are investigating whether students are responsible for distributing a 16-page magazine which portrays Muslim women in sexually explicit images and ridicules Jews and Palestinians.
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/education/2254499/detail.html

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Associated Press State & Local Wire, June 7
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HER WORLD; A scent, a whiff and we're transported once again
Los Angeles Times, June 8—To William Cain, a professor of surgery at UC San Diego who has researched olfactory functions, nothing smells like Paris in the morning, a rich, complicated blend of coffee, baked goods, alcohol and vegetables. "Every single place has a unique combination of ingredients that gives it a signature smell," Cain says.
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Couple hit road again to tread the boards
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 8—James Newcomb and his wife, Ursula Meyer, not unlike the traveling troupes of commedia dell'arte actors during the Renaissance, regularly hit the road to make a living on the stage. (Meyer, an actress and theater professor at the University of California San Diego, is coaching voice and text at the festival.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20030608-9999_1mi8couple.html

The Camera Eye
San Diego Business Journal, June 9—HIGH TECH NEWS: UC San Diego has an 18-month, $600,000 anti-terror grant from the federal government to develop an automated system for detecting and tracking faces in a crowd. Mohan Trivedi, a professor at UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering, leads the research team.
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Ground broken for expansion of Playhouse
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 8—After seven years of planning linked to a major fund-raising campaign, La Jolla Playhouse administrators and patrons broke ground yesterday on a $16.5 million facility that will include a third stage and a complex of buildings featuring myriad amenities. The Jacobs Center is the first permanent addition to be added at the Playhouse grounds on the UCSD campus since the forum opened in 1991. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20030608-9999_1m8playhouse.html

After the hype fades
Copley News Service, June 9—The road to the next great idea is littered with gadgets that barely made it out of the driveway, and many failed despite extensive marketing hype. (Technologies that never quite make it out of the gate are a natural part of the cycle from laboratory to marketplace, said Fred Cutler, executive director of University of California San Diego Connect.)
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Insomniacs may want to hit the gym
Copley News Service, June 9—A boost in exercise can provide insomniacs with nature's own sleeping pill, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego. "People should experiment for themselves to see whether exercise promotes better sleep," said Shawn D. Youngstedt, a sleep researcher at UCSD. "Sleep-deprived individuals should even try experimenting with different intensities of exercise at different times of the day."
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