A Sampling of Clips for 
March 03, 2004

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Dr. Seuss' Centennial Celebrated
Chicago Tribune, March 2-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.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-040302dpseuss-story,1,5537387.story?coll=chi-homepagenews-utl

Adults, Youths Mark Centennial for Seuss
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 2-La Jolla's Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel might have fled from all the hoopla celebrating his 100th birthday yesterday. There were speeches, statues, stamps and cake. Too few chairs for crowds to sit in. Blue and green fish sticks served at school lunches and a gala party last night. Outside the Geisel Library at UCSD, rain clouds gave way to a bright Seussian blue sky as adults with smiles and kids holding books attended a Dr. Seuss celebration. They watched as the widow of the famously shy author, Audrey Geisel, unveiled a 37-cent U.S. postage stamp and dedicated memorial bronze statues of her late husband and his alter-ego, the Cat in the Hat.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040302-2216-seuss.html

Seuss Stamp
City News Service, March 2-The U.S. Postal Service dedicated a commemorative postage stamp today in San Diego in honor of the late Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, who was born 100 years ago. The ceremony was held at UC San Diego's Geisel Library. The stamp is available locally today, and will be available nationwide beginning March 3, according to the USPS.
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Readers Celebrate Dr. Seuss' 100th Birthday
NBCSandiego.com, March 2-The Cat in the Hat is back at New Hampshire's Dartmouth College Tuesday. Dartmouth is celebrating the 100th birthday of Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1925. Other events planned around his birthday include a Dr. Seuss sculpture at the Universtity of California, San Diego and the presentation of a star honoring the author on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/family/2888932/detail.html

Same article appeared in:
Local6.com (Florida), March 2
http://www.local6.com/family/2888932/detail.html

Underwater Travel Takes Wing
Wired, March 3-The U.S. Navy plans to begin testing a prototype for an unmanned underwater glider with a flying-wing design in March, according to the Office of Naval Research, which funds the project. The Flying Wing isn't the first glider to "fly" underwater, just the first of its kind. Over the past seven years, projects at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the University of Washington School of Oceanography, and Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution have developed gliders whose designs incorporate torpedo-like shapes. (Quote by Scott Jenkins, a senior engineer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62435,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4

Citing a Risk of Strokes, U.S. Stops Estrogen Study Early
Los Angeles Times, March 3-The last major component of a landmark clinical trial investigating the effects of hormone replacement therapy for women has been terminated a year early because of a slightly increased risk of strokes, the National Institutes of Health announced Tuesday. The trial -- part of the federally funded Women's Health Initiative -- also showed that taking estrogen alone did not lower the risk of heart attacks. (Quote by Elizabeth Barrett-Connor M.D., professor in the department of family and preventive medicine at UC San Diego.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-hormone3mar03,1,1647969.story

SD Neurosciences Prize
City News Service, March 2-One of the nation's highest honors in neurosciences, the Potamkin Prize, will be awarded to Dr. Leon Thal of the UC San Diego School of Medicine, university officials said today. Thal will share the $100,000 prize with Dr. Roger Nitsch from the Neuro Science Center in Zurich, Switzerland. The chair of the UCSD Department of Neurosciences was selected for his achievements in research of Alzheimer's and related neurodegenerative diseases, according to the American Academy of Neurology.
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On Tap: A 10,000-Volt View of Deep Oceans
San Diego Union-Tribune, Neil Morgan, March 3-The next generation of deep-ocean exploration already bears a San Diego imprint. After years of study at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and recent collaboration with UCSD's futuristic CalIT(2), the National Science Foundation has asked Congress for $200 million to construct the first in a network of high-definition, fiber-optic observatories to explore unknown ocean floors.It's called Project ORION (Ocean Research Interactive Observatory Networks). SIO's John Orcutt has led the project study. (Quotes by SIO director Charles Kennel and director of UCSD's CalIT(2) Larry Smarr.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/morgan/20040303-9999_1m3morgan.html

NASA: Rocks Show Water Was on Mars
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 3-Water percolating through the soil once created a friendly environment that would have been ideal for life to flourish on Mars, NASA scientists say. It is not known how long this environment lasted or whether any organism actually developed. But scientists directing robot rovers prowling the Martian surface said yesterday that the evidence now is clear that some rocks "were once soaked with liquid water." (Quote by Jeffrey L. Bada, a professor of marine chemistry at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040303/news_1n3mars1.html

State Jumps on Kerry's Bandwagon
Sacramento Bee, March 3-California Democrats followed the national trend in Tuesday's presidential primary, embracing Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry as their party's best hope to defeat President Bush. (Quote by Samuel Popkin, a political science professor at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/8396023p-9325624c.html

Mexican Crater May Not Be Linked to Dinosaur Extinction
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 1-A Mexican crater often cited as evidence that a single asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs may not have been involved in that extinction at all, according to a new report. A group of researchers led by Gerta Keller of Princeton University contends that the impact that caused the crater occurred 300,000 years before the extinction. However, Richard D. Norris of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, responded that the group has incorrectly located the K-T boundary and noted it suggests the sediments were deposited mainly in deep, quiet water.
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/science/0304/02crater.html