A Sampling of Clips for 
March 16, 2005

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Sniffing Out Pollution
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 16 - In a room littered with computer parts, half-eaten lunches and decapitated robotic dogs, a handful of UCSD students have spent the past 10 weeks turning toys into pollution sleuths. Their goal is to detect toxic fumes that might be wafting over the long-closed Mission Bay landfill, once a city dump on the southern edge of Mission Bay Park, a prime recreation and tourist spot. (Quote by Natalie Jeremijenko, a UCSD professor.) More

UCSD Hopeful Regents Will See its New Vision
Voice of San Diego, March 16 - UCSD officials are set to meet with UC Regents on Wednesday to discuss the potential closure of the UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest. A proposal titled "New Vision for Healthcare" outlines plans to consolidate the acute-care facility with the UCSD Medical Center-Thornton Hospital in La Jolla. More

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Stem Cells Can be 21st Century Penicillin
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 16 - A study conducted by the University of California, San Diego found that stem cell lines approved by the Bush administration had been grown on mouse-feeder layers and were likely unsuitable for human research. This finding strongly points to the need for state governments, which can establish laws to supersede the federal restrictions, to move stem cell research forward. More

Stark Effects From Global Warming
Chemical & Engineering News, March 16 - CO2 emissions are causing oceans to warm, ocean chemistry to change, and rainfall patterns to shift. The clearest evidence yet that Earth is warming and that CO2 emissions are largely responsible was presented by researchers in February at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), in Washington, D.C. (Quote by Tim P. Barnett, a research marine physicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

Life and Depth
Chemical & Engineering News, March 15 - Although oceans cover nearly three-quarters of Earth's surface, little is known about how organisms living deep in the ocean cope with the pressures of their environment. At the American Chemical Society meeting in San Diego this week, Douglas H. Bartlett of Scripps Institution of Oceanography described the first genomic blueprint of an organism from the cold, deep ocean, which should shed light on how life can persist at great depths. More

'Similar' Schools Often Aren't All That Similar
San Jose Mercury News, March 16 - According to the state of California, James Lick High School and the Preuss School are similar. Most students at both schools are children of working-class Latino parents who did not graduate from four-year colleges. So, the state says, the two schools - and 98 others around California with similar demographics - should be measured against each other. But Lick and Preuss could hardly be more different - in what they offer academically, and how their students perform. More

The Role of Hosting and Other Thoughts
Voice of San Diego, March 16 - I am the first reporter to have marred Voice of San Diego with an error, and hasten to correct it: James Whitesell, a UCSD professor of chemistry and an ecologist, is a totally engaged critic of eucalyptus trees, including the 2,000 or so on the UCSD campus. But, as 14 loyal readers chided, I sounded like a fourth-grader when I referred to the trees' carbon dioxide emissions. More