A Sampling of Clips for 
March 16, 2004

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Women Know Little About Painful Urinary Infections
NBC News (New York, NY), March 15-Millions of American women each year endure painful, burning urination and a constant urge to relieve themselves, abstaining from sex, missing work or school and suffering in silence for days before they seek help _ if they seek it at all. Most say they were hoping their urinary tract infection would go away on its own, were treating it with folk cures or were too busy to see a doctor, according to separate surveys of hundreds of women and medical providers set to be released Tuesday. (Quote by C. Lowell Parsons M.D., director of the Interstitial Cystitis Clinic at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.wnbc.com/health/2925196/detail.html

Same article appeared in:
USA Today, March 15
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-03-15-women-uti_x.htm

Newsday, March 16
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-nj--urinaryinfections0315mar15,0,5017837.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire

Drinking Can Lead to Hearing Loss
CBS News (Phoenix, AZ), March 15- A new German study suggests drinking can cause some hearing loss, in a finding that's sure to fuel the debate on the health risks and benefits of alcohol. While studies have shown moderate drinking can lower your risk for heart disease, excess alcohol can damage your liver and brain and increase your risk for certain cancers. The new study finds that even moderate drinking can cause some degree of hearing loss by increasing the time it takes to process sound in the auditory brainstem. This nerve damage is caused by the long-term, cumulative effect of drinking, the researchers say. (Quote by Jeffrey Harris M.D., a professor and chief of otolaryngology at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.kpho.com/Global/story.asp?S=1712790

Same article appeared in:
NBC News (Evansville, IN)
http://www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=1712790

Geisel Library Offers Glimpse Into its Vast Seuss Collection
La Jolla Light, March 11-Oh, the things you will see at the Geisel Library on the campus of UCSD this year. In celebration of the immortal Dr. Seuss's 100th birthday, the Geisel Library is showing three exhibits over the course of 2004 depicting various aspects of his work. (Quote by Lynda Claassen, the director of the Mandeville Special Collections Library at the UCSD Geisel Library and the curator of the Seuss exhibits.)
http://www.lajollalight.com/2004/03/11/a040311geisel.html

Libraries, Memory IP Raised from the Dead
Electronic Engineering Times, March 15-Announcements by Prolific Inc. last week and Artisan Components Inc. today appear to signal a sudden revival in third-party logic-cell libraries and memory intellectual property. Indeed, industry insiders suggest that these once-moribund businesses may become pivotal in the era of growing cooperation between design and fabrication. With much of the outcome of a design, both in specifications and in yield, riding on decisions made inside the libraries and memory structures, the newly resuscitated library market is taking on a whole new significance. (Quote by University of California, San Diego, professor Andrew Kahng.)
http://www.eetimes.com/semi/news/OEG20040315S0017

Privacy Potholes
Computer World, March 15-Companies working hard to comply with a bewildering array of fast-changing state, federal, international and industry-specific privacy rules are uncovering a variety of practical problems along the way. Rising concerns over personal privacy and data-sharing practices have focused on increased liability risks relating to how personal data is handled. At the same time, the trend toward extending the enterprise is making it harder than ever for companies to keep track of and protect such data. (Quote by Erin Kenneally, a forensic analyst at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/
legalissues/story/0,10801,91108,00.html

Atwood to Speak at Revelle Forum
San Diego Daily Transcript, March 15-Author Margaret Atwood will speak April 1 at the University of California, San Diego's Revelle Forum at The Neurosciences Institute. UCSD Extension sponsors the forum as a series of cultural and educational events. Atwood will discuss her newest book "Oryx and Crake," which made a shortlist of candidates for the 2003 Man Booker Prize. The novel is about a world in which humans become obsolete after genetic research, climate change and consumerism collide. Atwood won the Booker Prize in 2000 for her novel "The Blind Assassin." Atwood is also well known for the 1985 novel "The Handmaid's Tale."
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