A Sampling of Clips for 
March 06 - 08, 2004

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A Drug's Royalties May Ease Hunger
New York Times, March 7-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 unsung co-inventor, Gordon H. 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. The creation of what became Erbitux actually occurred in Dr. Sato's laboratory at the University of California at San Diego, where he was a professor.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/07/business/07sato.html

The War on Strokes
Newsweek, March 8-They strike out of the blue, insidious and deadly, killing brain cells, destroying lives. Now a new wave of research about strokes offers hope to millions. Inside the search for treatments that work. (Quote by Patrick Lyden M.D., director of the stroke center at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4409271/

Fluttering Into Oblivion?
Los Angeles Times, March 7-Two of Southern California's rarest butterflies, the tiny Hermes copper and Thorne's hairstreak, could become the first known species in the state to be driven into extinction after the sweeping autumn wildfires. (Quote by Steve Erie, director of urban studies and planning at UC San Diego.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-butterfly7mar07,1,2573320.story

The Big Sleep
The Toronto Sun, March 5-Wake up or smell the lilies. Getting a good, long night's sleep may not be as healthy as it once was, according to the academic journal Sleep. This month's edition cites a Japanese study that says too much sleep can actually increase your chances of dying. Their study supports conclusions from other sleep studies which found those who sleep nine hours or 10 hours-plus had progressively increasing mortality, notes psychiatrist Daniel Kripke, a sleep researcher at the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine, in the same issue.
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Genomes Don't Play Dice
New Scientist, March 6-If you thought evolution was about taking a genetic gamble on random mutations, think again. Molecular biologist Lynn H. Caporale argues that genomes have stacked the odds well in their favour. Lynn H. Caporale; Lynn H. Caporale is an independent consultant in drug discovery and functional genomics. Her book Darwin in the Genome was published last year by McGraw-Hill, New York. (Refers to research conducted by Pavel Pevzner and Glenn Tesler from the University of California, San Diego.)
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Ancient Language, Modern Voices
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 7-Less than 2 percent of the Mexican population - about 1.5 million people - speaks Nahuatl (pronounced NAH-waht). The language and its various dialects are also spoken by pockets of indigenous people in Central America. But, scholars say, it is far from being a dying language. Mario Aguilar, now an assistant director of an early academic outreach program at the University of California, San Diego, started Nahuatl classes more than 20 years ago, as part of his Aztec dance group. The classes also have attracted many Mexican and Mexican-American college students, who are part of this growing movement to embrace elements of their indigenous lineage.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040307-9999-mz1c7dialect.html

Get the Right Angle on Blood Pressure Readings
Ottawa Citizen, March 8-How you position your arm during a blood pressure check could potentially determine whether your doctor properly diagnoses and treats your hypertension. That conclusion comes from a study lead by David Guss M.D., director of emergency room services at UC San Diego, in which researchers at the University of California at San Diego placed patients' arms in slightly exaggerated positions. With the arm straight and parallel to the body, blood pressure readings can be up to 10 per cent higher than when the elbow is bent at a right angle to the body at the level of the heart, researchers found.
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Combing Mars for Clues to Early Life on Earth
San Francisco Chronicle, March 8-If water flooded Mars with lakes or briny oceans in the distant past, did life evolve there too? Last week's announcement from NASA scientists of powerful evidence that water was once abundant on the planet's arid surface -- and that Mars was once "habitable" -- has renewed everyone's fantasies of Martian life. (Quote by Jeffrey Bada of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/08/MNGRT5FTQR1.DTL

Will West Coast Be Left Out?
San Francisco Chronicle, March 8-Even with John Kerry's huge primary victory and President Bush's trip to the state this past week, California is not shaping up as a battleground state in the 2004 presidential election. Strategists for Bush and Kerry are mapping out an electoral plan for the eight-month presidential campaign that focuses on a handful of Midwestern states -- Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin -- as well as Florida (where Kerry campaigns today), Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, New Mexico and perhaps West Virginia and Arizona. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a professor of political science at UC San Diego.)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/08/MNGNA5GC0M1.DTL

For Them, San Diego 'Still Feels Like Home'
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 7-Intriguing new music will be included in the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus' March 13-14 program of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff at UCSD's Mandeville Auditorium. The music comes from this year's Nee Commission Winner, UCSD graduate student Kerry Hagan, who also received funding from a Meet the Composer grant.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040307-9999-1a7scher.html

Six Students are Awarded Scholarships of $10,000
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 6-In honor of the recipients of the 2003 Kyoto Prize, six San Diego and Tijuana high school students have each been awarded $10,000 scholarships. The students were honored Thursday at the opening ceremony of the third annual Kyoto Laureate Symposium at San Diego State University. SDSU, UC San Diego and the University of San Diego sponsored the event.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040306-9999-news_1m6honor.html

Concert Has Life Without Riley
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 5-Although two key performers were out sick, Wednesday's contemporary music concert sponsored by the La Jolla Music Society in conjunction with the Muzik3 festival turned out to be an unexpected success. Among the 11 performers were guitarist Gyan Riley, the composer's 26-year-old son; cellist Fan; and UCSD percussionist Steven Schick, an All-Stars veteran.
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Ports of Entry Cited as Security Weak Points
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 6-U.S. border ports of entry, like those at San Ysidro and Otay Mesa, remain the weakest points in preventing terrorists from entering the country, according to the latest migration research. Deficiencies at the entry ports in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were among the issues identified by a group of U.S. and European migration experts yesterday at UCSD's Center for Comparative Immigration Studies. (Quote by Wayne Cornelius, director of the UCSD Center for Comparative Immigration Studies.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040307-9999-1m7immig.html

Burdens or Gifts? The Illegal Immigrants Among Us
North County Times, March 8-While there is no precise way of telling how many of them there are, federal immigration authorities estimated in January 2000 that there were 7 million illegal immigrants in the country. It is a population that grows at the rate of about 350,000 each year, according to a 2003 report by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. (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/2004/03/07/news/top_stories/3_6_0422_41_36.txt

In Wake of Prop. A Defeat, Spotlight Again on County's 2020 Zoning Plan
North County Times, March 6-It's back to the drawing board. Now that the distraction of Proposition A is behind them, San Diego County planners say they are again focusing attention on the task of retooling a growth blueprint called General Plan 2020. (Quote by Steve Erie, a political science professor at UC San Diego.)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/03/07/news/top_stories/3_6_0422_41_31.txt

Good Morning
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 6-It's Women's History Month and you find out about the role they played in silent filmmaking today during an hour-long, family-friendly presentation in the Seuss Room of UCSD's Geisel.
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