A Sampling of Clips for 
March 05, 2004

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New Material Detects Radiation
Washington Times, March 4-U.S. researchers said Thursday they have developed new materials that could help drivers see in near-zero-visibility situations on the highway. The materials, called metamaterials, extend the properties of naturally occurring materials and compounds. University of California, San Diego researchers discovered that metamaterials show a magnetic response to radiation in the terahertz range, whose frequencies lie between those of infrared rays and microwave rays. (Quote by David Smith, a physics researcher from the University of California, San Diego.)
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040304-075126-2523r.htm

Discovery May Lead to New Imaging Tools
San Jose Business Journal, March 5-A team of physicists and engineers from the University of California, San Diego, the University of California, Los Angeles, and Imperial College, London, has developed a class of materials that respond magnetically to terahertz radiation, a fundamental finding relevant to many applications in areas including guidance in zero visibility weather conditions, security and biomedical imaging and quality control, according to UC-San Diego.
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2004/03/01/daily49.html

The War on Strokes
Washington Post, March 8-The prevalence of strokes, which began leveling off around five years ago after a three-decade drop, may soon be on the rise, a result of an aging population and a growing number of Hispanics and African-Americans, who are likelier than whites to suffer strokes. The last decade has seen big advances in long-term rehab for stroke victims (sidebar), but for most people who show up in the emergency room there is exactly one drug doctors can use to get blood flowing into their brains again--and only a few patients get even that. But promising research into how blood vessels function and how neurons die may lead to new treatments that can save the lives, and brains, of people like John Kelly. (Quote by Patrick Lyden M.D., director of the stroke center at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31064-2004Mar4.html

Bush Capitalizes On Travel Bargain
Washington Post, March 5-When President Bush headed west on Wednesday to raise $1.5 million dollars for his reelection, his campaign enjoyed one of the greatest bargains in American politics: all-day use of Air Force One for the price of a few first-class airfares. Although the trip had an explicitly political purpose, taxpayers will pick up most of the expenses, as they did for President Bill Clinton and his predecessors. (Quote by Gary C. Jacobson, a political scientist at the University of California at San Diego.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31606-2004Mar4.html

Same article appeared in:
Oakland Tribune, March 5
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~1998238,00.html#

Tri-Valley Herald, March 5
http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10669~1997940,00.html

Final Victim of San Diego Wildfires Leaves Hospital
Contra Costa Times, March 4-After 129 days in a San Diego burn center, the last hospitalized victim of the October wildfires has been released to go home. Rudy Reyes, 27, underwent 18 operations and had nearly 20 square feet of skin grafted to his body during his stay at the Regional Burn Center of the University of California, San Diego. He was discharged Wednesday afternoon as the doctors and nurses who cared for him wished him well.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/8105695.htm

Same article appeared in:
North County Times, March 5
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/03/05/news/top_stories/3_4_0422_41_32.txt

San Jose Mercury News, March 4
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california
/peninsula/8105695.htm

GeneAlert ... from UPI
United Press International, March 5-In animal studies researchers used gene therapy to treat heart failure, a leading cause of heart disease and death in humans. University of California, San Diego, researchers used gene delivery to express a modified form of the phospholamban protein, S16EPLN, in chronically failing rat hearts after a heart attack. Rats that received the treatment showed improvements in global heart functioning, and their hearts did not develop scar tissue usually seen in heart failure.
* No link available online.

Unhappy Birthday
Wall Street Journal, Opinion, March 5-This week marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Seuss -- Theodor Seuss Geisel -- the great children's author and the father of such immortal figures as the Cat in the Hat, the Grinch, Horton, the Lorax and, lest we forget, the Sneetches. Tuesday, the author's birthday, marked the launch of the "Seussentennial," as his fans are calling it. The tributes are wide and various. They included the unveiling of a statue of the author seated with the Cat in the Hat at the Geisel Library at the University of California at San Diego. But exactly which Dr. Seuss is being celebrated? Is it the literary Seuss, creator of charmingly anarchic, oddball characters whose adventures are recounted in ingenious nonsense verse? Or is it the Seuss of Hollywood and myriad product tie-ins who has been "interpreted" and marketed and theme-parked within an inch -- maybe beyond -- of his reputation?
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB107845020243347317,00.html

Oh, the Places He Took Us
La Jolla Light, March 4-Ted Geisel was a La Jollan. He was a La Jollan who, like many its residents, became attached to the area from the first time he saw it. Geisel dined in the town's restaurants, frequented its post office and rubbed elbows with its most distinguished citizens. He enjoyed a good party and always looked to the future optimistically. He was a typical La Jollan in many ways. In other ways, however, he was anything but.
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/eclips/PDF/seuss_lajollalight.pdf

How Seuss Stole Our Hearts
La Jolla Light, Opinion, March 4-This week marks the 100th birthday of Theodore Geisel. Dr. Seuss, as he was known to millions of people all over the world, was an author and illustrator of uncommon talent. His clever art had the breeziness of a carefree doodle. His graceful, beguiling language elevated children's verse into the familiar words that stay with young readers for a lifetime.
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/eclips/PDF/seuss_lajollalight_opinion.pdf

China Premier Buffs Man of the People Image
Reuters, March 5-He has been down a coal mine, directed relief efforts for a deadly earthquake and publicly shaken hands with AIDS patients. In his first year as China's premier, Wen Jiabao has burnished his man-of-the-people image and on Friday sought to drive that home with a pledge at the annual session of parliament to help those left out of the country's economic boom. (Quote by Barry Naughton, an expert on China's economy at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp;:40484421:87a332786efd36cc?type=worldNews&locale=en_IN&storyID=4503577