A Sampling of Clips for 
March 09, 2004

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UC Analyzing Admissions at Some Campuses
San Francisco Chronicle, March 9-An analysis of University of California admissions show some campuses are admitting black and Hispanic students at slightly higher rates than expected. UC officials said Monday they don't know why that's so and they plan to investigate further to see if race or ethnicity is seeping into the admissions process, contrary to state law.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/03/08/state2211EST0195.DTL

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Associated Press, March 9
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Contra Costa Times, March 9
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/8138068.htm

San Diego Union-Tribune, March 9
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20040309-9999-1n9admit.html

Sarasota Herald Times, March 9
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040308/APN/403081098

San Jose Mercury News, March 9
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/8138068.htm

Doctors' Beauty Offers Entail Health Risks
USA Today, Opinion, March 9-Cosmetic procedures don't usually benefit a patient's health; they enhance her or his beauty. The "optimal" treatment is not determined by medical standards so much as by cultural ones. Most professional associations of cosmetic surgeons follow guidelines based on standards set by the American Medical Association. But because cosmetic medicine is elective, stricter guidelines and lower acceptable levels of risk are needed. (Quote by Mary Devereaux, an ethicist at the University of California, San Diego's Research Ethics Program.)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-03-08-edit-palmer_x.htm

Multi-Tasker
San Diego Union Tribune, Night & Day, March 4-Sam Rivers doesn't like singing his own praises, but he's not waiting around for writers and critics to figure out just where to position him in the jazz firmament. At 80, Rivers is in the autumn of a career that has flourished in so many creative directions that he confounds any easy categorization. And he shows no signs of slowing down as he enters his ninth decade. He's not exaggerating when he describes the trio he brings to the University of California, San Diego for his three-day residency as a UC Regents Lecturer as a singular jazz creation.
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/eclips/PDF/multitasker.pdf

Delivering the 'Good Bugs'
The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec), March 9-Probiotics in yogurt, some other dairy products and supplements contain "good bugs," live microbes that can improve digestion and ease disorders like inflammatory bowel disease, allergies and even some cancers. But scientists have worried that some probiotics might pose a danger to infants and those with compromised immune systems. Now researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and Shaare Zedek Medical Centre, Jerusalem, have found a potentially safer way to administer them. They inactivated the microbes so they wouldn't multiply, but preserved their DNA.
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Five Questions
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 8-Q &A with Anne O'Donnell, director of the Corporate Affiliates Program at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UCSD. She was previously director of the school's Center for the Commercialization of Advanced Technology, a consortium of government, academic and industry partners providing marketing, business and technical support to scientists, innovators and early-stage companies.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/personaltech/20040308-9999-mz1b8five.html

Why Marijuana Isn't All Bad
Ottawa Citizen, March 9-More than being just a 'social lubricant,' cannabis helps you relax and can reduce the negative side-effects of HIV drugs, in addition to offering a whole host of other medicinal benefits. Now that the federal government has plans to decriminalize the drug, the key is knowing where to draw the line and 'just say no.' (Quote by Igor Grant M.D., director of the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at the University of California, San Diego.)
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