A Sampling of Clips for 
March 11, 2005

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Stem Cells, Minus the Furor
Business Week, March 11-Researchers are hoping cells taken from patients themselves will grow fresh, healthy muscle in ailing hearts. (Refers to stem cell research conducted by UCSD.) More

Same article appeared in:
MSNBC, March 10

Fiscal Crunch Time in San Diego
USA Today, March 11-Investigations of a pension-fund scandal and a slim mandate for the mayor is putting pressure on city government. (Quote by Thad Kousser, assistant professor of political science at UCSD.) More

Same article appeared in:
Christian Science Monitor, March 11

News Briefs
Contra Costa Times, March 11-UCSD has until April 1 to finish raising $7.2 million to demolish and rebuild a home for its chancellor. UC President Robert Dynes granted the extension after UCSD indicated it had not able to raise the money since mid-October. More

Popular Cold Spray May Destroy Sense of Smell
KFMB, March 10-It's cold and flu season in San Diego. And getting sick usually means a trip to the drug store for medicine. But one San Diegan says his choice of cold remedies cost him dearly, and he's blaming a popular cold spray for destroying his sense of smell. (Quote by Dr. Terence Davidson, the Director of UCSD's Nasal Dysfunction Center.) More

Bluff Collapses; Beach Roped Off
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 11-A collapsing sea bluff prompted San Diego lifeguards to cordon off a quarter-mile section of Torrey Pines beach yesterday. (Quote by Ross Butler, a researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More