A Sampling of Clips for June 4^th, 2008

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Tainted Cheese Fuels TB Rise in California
MSNBC, June. 4 -- A rare form of tuberculosis caused by illegal, unpasteurized dairy products, including the popular queso fresco cheese, is rising among Hispanic immigrants in Southern California and raising fears about a resurgence of a strain all but eradicated in the U.S., according to UCSD scientists. More

Threat of Starvation Grows in North Korea
Miami Herald, June 04 -- Food shortages are gripping North Korea amid signs that some of its citizens may already be starving to death, experts and rights activists said Tuesday. (Quotes Stephan M. Haggard, a North Korea specialist at UCSD) More

Rate Your Doctor Online
News Channel5, Palm Beach, Fla., June 4 -- Similar to the way customers review hotels or restaurants, a growing number of patients are rating their doctors online. There are dozens of new websites that post comments and rankings of their physicians. (Quotes Dr. Lawrence Friedman, medical director for patient safety at UCSD) More

How Much Information is Out There?
InternetNews, June 3 -- Forget any talk of chronically underutilized servers in the datacenter: Here's a project that requires some serious number crunching. UCSD, with help from several tech heavyweights, announced it's begun a three-year research study to quantify how much information is being produced worldwide by businesses and consumers. The "How Much Information" (HMI) project also aims to categorize different types of data. More

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New Farmers Market Aims to Fill Void in City Heights
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 4 -- For more than a year, volunteers and activists have worked to lure a farmers market to City Heights. Their efforts will pay off Saturday, when the neighborhood's first certified farmers market opens for business on Wightman Street in the heart of Urban Village. (Quotes Blanca Melendrez, the local director of the Network for a Healthy California, a state health program run through UCSD) More

SEO Class Offered at UCSD
San Diego Daily Transcript, June 3 -- SEO Inc., a Carlsbad-based search engine marketing company, announced Tuesday that company executives will teach a three-day, 2.5-credit course on search engine optimization and search engine marketing at UCSD. More