A Sampling of Clips for 
March 05 - 07, 2005

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Close Doesn't Always Count in Winning Games
New York Times, March 7-Evidence from personality profiles and from studies of military, corporate and space flight crews suggests that looser ties between group members can be a strength, if the team includes individuals who can generate collective emotion when needed. And the Yankees have several of them. (Quote by Dr. Lawrence Palinkas, an anthropologist at UCSD.) More

A Rarity of a Race Has 48 Hours to Go
Los Angeles Times, March 6-With just 48 hours left, the Los Angeles mayoral race has turned into a rarity for the city, as incumbent James K. Hahn battles to make a runoff and avoid becoming the first chief executive ousted in more than 30 years. (Quote by Steven P. Erie, a UCSD professor.) More

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KTLA, March 6

The Sky's No Limit
Los Angeles Times, March 5-Science camps around the nation can give today's whiz kids a leg up on becoming tomorrow's astronomers, mathematicians, researchers and engineers. (Mentions COSMOS, California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science, run by University of California which has recently grown to include UCSD.) More

How Mirror Neurons Help Us to Empathize
Wall Street Journal, March 4-"Mirror neurons promise to do for neuroscience what DNA did for biology," neurobiologist V.S. Ramachandran of UCSD has written, explaining "a host of mental abilities that have remained mysterious." More

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Pittsburg Post-Gazette, March 7

U.S. Panel Recommends Limiting Gene Therapy Trials
ABC News, March 5-Federal health advisers recommended late Friday that two U.S. gene therapy trials for children with a severe immune deficiency resume but on a very limited basis. (Quote by Dr. Theodore Friedmann, director of the Program in Human Gene Therapy at UCSD.) More

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Forbes, March 5

China PM Takes Pride in "Man of the People" Image
Reuters, March 4-In two years as China's premier, Wen Jiabao has burnished his man-of-the-people image and has driven that home with pledges to help those left behind by the country's economic boom. (Quote by Barry Naughton, an expert on China's economy at UCSD.) More

Talk of the Nation
NPR, March 4-How much does the president's new budget have for ocean-related research? Plus, new discoveries at the ocean's deepest depths. (Q & A with Douglas Bartlett, associate professor of Marine Biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

Top 100 Biomedicine Universities
The Times Higher Education Supplement, March 4-The University of California has placed 10th in the Times Higher Education's top 100 Biomedicine Universities.

Retirement Overhaul Plan Tests Bush's Political Capital
San Francisco Chronicle, March 6-Bush's push for a fundamental restructuring of Social Security to include private accounts has encountered a devotion to the nation's retirement system that appears far stronger than the devotion to the re-elected president's agenda. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a political scientist at UCSD.) More

UCSD-Utah Team Develops Mouse Model to Test Therapies for Macular Degeneration
Innovations Report, March 6-Researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine and the University of Utah have developed a mouse model of Age-Related Macular Degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in people over age 55, and Stargardt Macular Degeneration, a form of the disease that affects children and young adults. More

Scientists Have Identified a Key Network
that Prevents Damage by Oxygen Radicals
News Medical, March 6-Reactive oxygen species, or 'oxygen radicals', have been identified as major contributors to signs of premature aging, increased cancer prevalence linked to inflammation-associated syndromes and a variety of human diseases. Now scientists at the UCSD Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have identified a key network of DNA repair and cell cycle control genes in yeast that prevents the deleterious effects of ROS. More

UCSD's New Vision for Health Care
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, March 4- As a longtime member of the San Diego community, I have watched the UCSD School of Medicine grow and develop into an extraordinary institution that has helped transform our region in many positive ways. UCSD has announced plans to further improve its health system, and their vision is very exciting. (Written by Lucy Killea, chair of UCSD's Board of Overseers.) More

$4 Million Donated to UCSD Center
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 5-The fight against Alzheimer's disease is $4 million stronger because of a gift to UCSD from Donald and Darlene Shiley of Pauma Valley. (Quote by Dr. Leon Thal, center director and chairman of UCSD's department of neurosciences.) More

News Briefs from San Diego County
San Jose Mercury News, March 4-The first female chancellor of UCSD took office in a $79,100 ceremony that featured orchestral pieces, gospel choir interludes and a speech that made little mention of how the state's budget crisis will effect the university. Marye Anne Fox, a chemist who most recently served as chancellor at North Carolina State University, is UCSD's seventh chancellor. More

UCSD Pulls Plug On 'Koala TV'
Channel 10 News, March 4-The program director of a student-run station at UCSD pulled the plug Thursday night on a controversial broadcast, 10News reported. "Koala TV," which usually runs at 10 p.m. every Thursday on UCSD's student-run television, was cut short Thursday after a UCSD student took things too far. More

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San Diego Union-Tribune, March 5

'Hawkinson': A Tinkerer's Works Sculpt a Sense of Wonder
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 6-You will never view aluminum foil in the same light after seeing Tim Hawkinson's art. Nor will you think of rawhide dog bones in the same way. (Refers to sculpture by Hawkinson for UCSD.) More