A Sampling of Clips for 
March 1, 2006

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Inactivity, Not Calories, Makes Kids Fat
PakTribune (Pakistan), March 1 -- While some want to blame the soda or fast food industry for our children’s increasing rates of obesity, new research says most of the problem is their inactivity. In fact, two to four minutes a day of activity made a big difference. Surely our kids can find that amount of time away from the computer games for that. (Quotes the study’s principal investigator, Dr. Kevin Patrick, a UCSD professor of family and preventive medicine, and UCSD colleagues Gregory J. Norman and Marion F. Zabinski.) More

Georgia Tech Eyes Hyderabad
Hindustan Times (U.K.), March 1 -- The trend of expanding academic horizons to India was accelerated last year when President Abdul Kalam launched the Indo-US University Network in New Delhi. American universities clearly saw the potential of seamless education (with primary focus on engineering education), and research cooperation, so much so that nearly two dozen universities joined with several Indian institutions in this initiative. By December, premier American universities joined the initiative, including University of California Office of the President, UCSD, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, Yale and, Georgia Tech. More

Drivers May Be Slow to Accept Safer Cars
Dallas Morning News, March 1 -- There's technology available to let cars automatically brake when they come up behind a slower car, steer back into a lane when the driver wanders and deploy an airbag and mash the brakes a split second before a crash. But it may be a long time before such technology makes it into most cars, experts said Tuesday. Many drivers probably will resist turning their cars over to automated systems. (Quotes Mohan Trivedi, engineering professor at UCSD.) More

Immigrants Gain the Pulpit
KTLA-TV, March 1 -- Wading back into the growing debate over illegal immigration, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony on Tuesday denounced what he called "hysterical" anti-immigrant sentiment sweeping California and the nation. In an interview on the eve of Ash Wednesday, Mahony said he planned to use the first day of the Lenten season to call on all 288 parishes in the Los Angeles Archdiocese, the nation's largest, to fast, pray and press for humane immigration reform. U.S. Roman Catholic bishops support proposals for a guest-worker program, legalization of undocumented immigrants and more visas for migrants' families. (Quotes Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UCSD.) More

Do You Have
the Right Stuff for an Executive MBA?
San Diego Metropolitan Magazine, March 1 -- The executive pondering a business school will soon have more choices about where to earn an MBA. In August, the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business will launch a two-year Executive MBA (EMBA) degree program in San Diego County. (Quotes JoAnne Starr, assistant dean for UCSD’s Rady School of Management.) More