A Sampling of Clips for 
February 28 - March 01, 2004

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Is Biotechnology Losing Its Nerve?
New York Times, Feb. 29-As a founder of four biotechnology companies, Dennis A. Carson can practically write an encyclopedia entry on risk. After all, his first start-up, a gene therapy and vaccine company called Vical, still does not have a product on the market after 16 years and more than $100 million spent. But now Dr. Carson, who is also the director of the cancer center at the University of California at San Diego, is playing it safe, or at least safer. Rather than develop radical new technology or invent new medicines, his latest venture, Salmedix, plans to sell drugs licensed from other companies - drugs that are already on the market or that have at least gone through some clinical trials.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/business/yourmoney/29biotech.html?ex=1078635600&en=c420fa9db3543a68&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

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The Times of India, March 1
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/527720.cms

'Empire Style'
New York Times, Feb. 28-Faux is the domain of Jean Lowe, a San Diego-based artist and visual arts professor at UCSD whose high-camp, handmade furniture of papier-mâché takes off on the fancy Empire mode of early 19th-century décor. She has created a salon of wonderfully pompous furnishings: gilded upholstered chairs, a "marble"-topped cabinet and table, ornamental clocks and a large imperial rug, painted on canvas, all swags and scrolls and fakey coats of arms.
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A Seussian Pair of Shoulders
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 28-Nearly 13 years after her husband Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel's passing, Audrey Geisel leads the global enterprise that has sprouted from Seuss' beloved books - watching over the Cat in the Hat, the Grinch and all the other critters and characters who live on in movies, toys, games and ventures that perhaps not even the imaginative doctor could have envisioned. Geisel is currently presiding over a year's worth of ceremonies celebrating "Seussentennial: A Century of Imagination." The events include the unveiling of a Dr. Seuss sculpture at the Geisel Library at the University of California, San Diego; and the presentation of a star honoring the author on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-et-morgante28feb28,1,1091458.story?coll=la-home-style

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Associated Press, March 1
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Saratosa Herald Tribune, March 1
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040227/APN/402271097

North County Times, March 1
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/02/29/special_reports/books/2_28_0422_46_48.txt

Celebrating a Century of Seuss
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 29-Tuesday isn't just election day, it's Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel's 100th birthday. And party planners have a celebration ready that the Birthday Bird in Katroo could appreciate. At 11 a.m. a bronze statue of Geisel and his most famous character, the Cat in the Hat, will be dedicated at Geisel Library at the University of California, San Diego. Sculpted by Geisel's stepdaughter, Lark Grey Dimond-Cates of Rancho Santa Fe, it's the second casting of the original, completed in 2002 and located in Geisel's hometown, Springfield, Mass.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040229-9999-1c29seuss.html

A Cancer Drug's Possible Side Effect: Feeding Hungry Africans
International Herald Tribune, March 1-Erbitux, the long-awaited and newly approved drug from ImClone Systems, could have an unexpected side effect: Besides helping American cancer patients, it may help feed the poor in Africa. That is because some royalties from the drug's sales will go to its largely unsung co-inventor, Gordon Sato, a cell biologist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences who left a successful academic career to devote himself to producing food in the African desert. Sato says he has not paid much attention in recent years to Erbitux, which he worked on in the early 1980s and which some analysts and doctors say could become a major drug. The creation of what became Erbitux actually occurred in Sato's laboratory at the University of California at San Diego, where he was a professor.
http://www.iht.com/articles/131953.html

Study Led by Scripps Scientist Finds Genetically Distinct Corals
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 28-In the world of marine biology, Atlantic Ocean corals have been underappreciated siblings -- far-flung twigs from the family trees of Pacific corals and the grand coral reefs they build. But now scientists say they have discovered that about one-third of Atlantic corals are genetically distinct enough to make up their own family. The finding, profiled this week in the journal Nature, will shift how biologists think about the classification of corals the world over, said Nancy Knowlton, a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla who led the research.
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Caleb `Shelly' Lewis
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 28-To Caleb A. "Shelly" Lewis, the University of California Extension program was an invitation to experiment -- and the more unconventional, the better. Mr. Lewis, whose career in extension education spanned 37 years, died Monday at Cloisters of La Jolla. He was 86. With grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Exxon Foundation, Mr. Lewis launched Courses by Newspaper as a communications specialist for UCSD Extension. He became affiliated with UCSD Extension in May 1965, moving his office to the University of California San Diego's fledgling La Jolla campus.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/obituaries/20040228-9999-1m28lewis.html

South Dakota's Ban on Abortion Looks to the Future
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 29-South Dakota lawmakers last week passed the nation's most far-reaching ban on abortions, voting to make it a felony -- punishable by five years in prison -- to perform most abortions. But even supporters of the bill don't believe it will stop any woman from terminating a pregnancy. They expect a federal judge to halt enforcement of the law before it takes effect. (Quote by Peter Irons, a political science professor at UC San Diego.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-abort29feb29,1,3124147.story

A Slippery Slope
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 29-Last summer, dump trucks drove out onto a grass field at UC San Diego and began unloading excess dirt from a construction project on the other side of campus. Then high-tech graders arrived, with lasers that adjust the height of the blades, and smoothed out the dirt so precisely that the field drops a mere 2 inches over 240 feet - or .096 percent. This was no ordinary discus field. Located on a bluff facing the Pacific Ocean on the northwest corner of the UCSD campus, it is regarded as one of the planet's best places to spin around a cement ring and hurl a circular metal object into space.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/20040229-9999-lz1s29sunspc.html

Billy Will Crystal-ize His Act at Playhouse
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 2-Billy Crystal will return to UCSD's La Jolla Playhouse for two weeks of performances, April 20 through May 2. The versatile comedian hosts the Academy Awards telecast Sunday, then dives into preparations for "700 Sundays . . . Billy Crystal . . . A Life in Progress," to be directed by Playhouse boss Des McAnuff as part of the theater's Page-to-Stage workshop project.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040227-9999-1c27billy.html

Petronio's 'Twist' Shouts
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 1-Choreographer Stephen Petronio, whose company, now in its 20th year, performed Saturday at UCSD's Mandeville Auditorium. Dream, mourning, nightmare, and the old hip cool mingled in Petronio's program, with its blend of new music, trendy artwork and costuming, narrative discontinuity, and absolutely dazzling dancing.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040301-9999-news_1c1pet.html

Cellphone Pioneer, Wife to Give USC $52 Million
Los Angeles Times, March 1-Andrew J. Viterbi, a renowned engineer and wireless communications magnate, and his wife, Erna, will donate $52 million to the University of Southern California, which will name its engineering school for the couple. Before co-founding Qualcomm in 1985 with Irwin M. Jacobs (for whom UC San Diego's engineering school is named), Viterbi was an engineering professor at UCLA and UC San Diego.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-usc1mar01,1,3400931.story

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San Diego Union-Tribune, March 1
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040229-9999-news_1m29gift.html

Going to Depths for Evidence of Global Warming
San Francisco Chronicle, March 1-A puzzling heating trend on the bottom of the North Pacific has left oceanographers scratching their heads. Since 1985, just south of the Aleutian Islands and about 3 miles beneath the waves, in a pitch-black realm haunted by "Finding Nemo"-style fish with nasty fangs and glowing antennae, the temperature has risen by a tiny fraction of a degree -- five-thousandths of a degree Centigrade, to be exact. (Quote by Joseph Reid, a veteran oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/01/MNGEL5B7VE1.DTL

Earlier Primary Doesn't Guarantee Clout
Sacramento Bee, Feb. 29-Former state Sen. Jim Costa tells voters he's the crazy guy who fought for 18 years to move California's presidential primary from June to March so they could have a say on their parties' nominees. With Tuesday's election giving Californians an opportunity to help pick the Democrats' nominee, Costa should be celebrating. Instead, he's claiming just a partial victory because California's clout was once again diluted by earlier elections and by the fact that nine other states are holding their primaries Tuesday. (Quote by Samuel Popkin, a political science professor at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/8363001p-9292830c.html

The President Effect
Canadian Business, Opinion, Feb. 29-Elections in the U.S. have a greater impact on Canadian stock markets than you might have guessed. Canada is the largest trading partner of the United States, with total trade between the two countries almost seven times that of the U.S. with the continents of Africa and Australia combined. Such dependence comes with economic consequences -- and with some entertaining byproducts, ranging from Canadian pro wrestlers finding it easy to work in the U.S., to the U.S. presidential election cycle being an unremarked drumbeat driving Canadian stock markets. (Article written by Paul Kedrosky, a professor at the University of California, San Diego.)
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Hatred for Bush Runs Deep Among Many Democrats
Dallas Morning News, March 1-Three years of recession coupled with decades of a shifting global economy have left Democrats angry, and have fed an intense antipathy here for George W. Bush. It is more than disagreement with the president, interviews suggest. It is a deep anger, a visceral hatred, of Bush expressed by many Democrats from New Hampshire to California over his policies, his governing style and even his personality. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a political science professor at the University of California, San Diego.)
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Troubleshooter Changes Toddler's Perspective Of Life
TheSanDiegoChannel.com, Feb. 26-Kids are eager to explore the world around them. But 2-year-old Dylan Allrunner has been a bit timid. Without glasses, he cannot see more than a few inches in front of his eyes. Allrunner, suffers from a genetic disorder called Stickler's Syndrome. The condition causes arthritis, hearing problems and eye problems, like severe nearsightedness. David Granet M.D., director of University of California, San Diego Ratner Children's Eye Center, said Stickler's Syndrome can have serious complications.
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/news/2878850/detail.html

UC to Send 3,200 to Community Colleges
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 27-In a move that may break a 43-year-long promise to admit all eligible students, the University of California announced yesterday that thousands of high school students who should have been accepted this year will be redirected to a community college. Next week, UC will begin notifying high school seniors whether they were admitted. (Quote by Jeremy Paul Gallagher, president of the Associated Students at UC San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20040227-9999-1n27uc.html

Drop the Camel
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Feb. 28-U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler got it right earlier this week when she allowed the Justice Department to proceed with its $289 billion lawsuit against tobacco companies that pitch their dangerous products to kids. Kessler's ruling should help concentrate the minds of companies that cynically target gullible youths with such slick marketing schemes as the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s oh-so-cool Joe Camel. (Quote by John Pierce M.D., who heads the cancer prevention program at UCSD's Cancer Center.)
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Echoes of Prop. 187 in 'Save Our State' initiative
North County Times, March 1-With the help of a prominent local politician, a controversial initiative that would deny most public benefits for illegal immigrants is being circulated once more. (Quote by Gordon Hanson, an economics professor at UC San Diego and co-director of the Center for U.S. Mexican Studies at the university.)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/02/29/news/top_stories/2_28_0419_54_24.txt

Gridlock ---- and No Relief in Sight
North County Times, March 1- Political gridlock and budget problems mean the pace of road building won't catch up with California driving habits anytime soon, experts say. The most important source of funding for highways, the state excise tax on gasoline and diesel fuel, is frozen at 18 cents a gallon, analysts say, even as Californians drive farther and farther. (Quote by Steve Erie, a political science professor at UC San Diego.)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/02/29/opinion/2_28_0421_50_47.txt

Immigration Proposals Fuel a Strong Debate
North County Times, March 1-As the U.S. Congress begins hearings on sweeping changes to immigration law, President George W. Bush's proposal to temporarily legalize millions of illegal workers has fueled an intense national debate about immigration. (Quote by Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Studies at UC San Diego.)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/02/29/news/top_stories/2_28_0419_54_13.txt

For Their Benefit
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 27-UCSD Cardiovascular Center will honor the San Diego Firefighters Association with The Heart of San Diego Award, 6 p.m.-midnight, Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina. The program will benefit UCSD Cardiovascular Center.
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