A Sampling of Clips for June 29^th, 2009

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New Cancer Treatment Shows Promise in Testing
The New York Times, June 28 – A new method of attacking cancer cells, developed by researchers in Australia, has proved surprisingly effective in animal tests. The method is intended to sidestep two major drawbacks of standard chemotherapy: the treatment's lack of specificity and that cancer cells often develop resistance. (Quotes Dr. Robert M. Hoffman of UCSD) More

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Controlling the Great Lakes Fish-Eaters
USA Today, June 25 -- Thanks to the power of American science, we now have birth control for sea lampreys. Sea lampreys are toothy eel-like creatures that evolved about 450 million years ago, before sharks.  "They feed on fish by attaching themselves to the fish and sucking their body fluids," researchers at UCSD explain in a statement. More

Cash Best as Record Correlation Hints Herd Collapse
Bloomberg, June 29 -- Investors are moving in lockstep like never before, driving up stocks, commodities and emerging markets and risking a replay of last year, when they all plunged the most since World War II. (Quotes Harry Markowitz, a professor of finance at the Rady School of Management at UCSD and a Nobel laureate) More

Governor's Last Stand: His Way or IOUs
Los Angeles Times, June 28 -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, seeking to conquer what could be the last budget crisis of his tenure, is engaged in a high-stakes negotiating strategy with lawmakers that could force him to preside over a meltdown of state government. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Gary Jacobson) More

Iran's Mass Arrests: Broadest Since 1979 Islamic Revolution
Christian Science Monitor, June 28 -- Intimidation of regime opponents with arbitrary detention or house arrest is nothing new in Iran. But the country's current crackdown against citizens angry at the apparent rigging of the June 12 presidential election in favor of the incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is its broadest since the aftermath of the Islamic revolution in 1979. (Quotes Babak Rahimi, an American academic who specializes in Iran at UCSD) More

Inside Iran, a Familiar and Unpredictable Rebellion
Contra Costa Times, June 28 -- Tehran, once again, has become a city of rebellion. But this is a very different kind of rebellion. The goal of the 1979 revolution was to turn away from monarchy —and the corruption associated with the shah — and establish an Islamic state governed by clerics. This time, the protesters seek a more democratic state, transparent in structure and accountable only to its citizens. (Written by Babak Rahimi, an assistant professor of Iranian and Islamic studies at UCSD) More

Think. Drink. Think Again.
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 29 – George Koob, chairman of the Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla and adjunct professor of psychology, psychiatry and pharmacy at UCSD, has spent 30 years studying drug and alcohol addiction. He is part of a local, national and international network of scientists who are deciphering how alcohol transforms the brain's neurochemistry. More

Reasonable Arguments
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 28 – “For science to move forward effectively, it needs to be in the public interest,” said Dr. Michael Kalichman, co-director of the Center for Ethics in Science and Technology and a neuropathologist at UCSD. “To do that, we recognize there are ethical questions that need to be addressed.” More

Water Authority GM to Give Talk
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 28 — Maureen Stapleton, general manager of the San Diego County Water Authority, will speak about “The True Value of Water” during a July 16 meeting of the UCSD Economics Roundtable. More

Protecting Privacy in the Electronic Age
KPBS, June 29 -- Many lawmakers, and privacy rights groups want more disclosure about how electronic information is being collected and used, and they want new laws and regulations put in place. Erin Kenneally, attorney whose company, Elchemy, deals with cyber law and who also is a cyber forensics analyst at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, discusses the issue. More

Rising Sea Prompts Concern About Sand Replenishment
North County Times, June 28 -- With global warming threatening to raise sea levels, environmental groups are challenging the wisdom of spending millions of dollars to put sand on area beaches ---- especially if it is only going to wash back out to sea. (Quotes Neil Driscoll, geology professor for UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

Arrests Along the Border Drop Everywhere But Here
North County Times, June 27 -- The number of illegal immigrants caught at the nation's borders with Mexico and Canada in 2008 dropped to its lowest point in more than 30 years ---- except in San Diego County. Experts say the overall drop is because of the nation's sagging economy and increased security measures. (Quotes Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UCSD) More

Gompers’ Protest Over District’s Latest Scheme
San Diego News Network, June 29 -- Against all odds, this neighborhood charter school in southeast San Diego - in partnership with UCSD - has taken over where the San Diego Unified School District left off. And that fact apparently infuriates some school board members, particularly board president Shelia Jackson, who represents the Gompers sub-district on the board. More

Next Step for Nanotech: Treating Cancer in Clinical Studies
San Diego Business Journal, June 29 -- Michael Sailor, a UCSD chemistry and biochemistry professor, leads a government-funded laboratory where researchers study nano-sized technologies like nanoworms, which swim through the bloodstream honing in on developing tumors. More

UCSD School of Medicine Appoints Chief of Biomedical Informatics
San Diego Daily Transcript, June 26 -- UCSD Health Sciences has appointed Lucila Ohno-Machado, M.D., Ph.D., chief of its new Division of Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Medicine. More

Cook-Off
San Diego Magazine, June 27  -- The 28th annual Celebrity Chefs Cook gala, “Epicurean Elegance,” at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina, raised funds for the Moores UCSD Cancer Center. Carla and Rudy Rehn and Carol and Jeff Chang were honorary chairs; Joy and Fred Frye were food-and-wine chairs. Channel 8’s Barbara-Lee Edwards emceed. More

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