A Sampling of Clips for 
March 16, 2006

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San Diego Institutions
to Form Stem-Cell Consortium
San Diego Daily Transcript, March 15 -- Leaders of four major institutions will officially sign a document on Friday to establish and operate a non-profit entity to be called the San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, UCSD announced Wednesday. Participants are The Burnham Institute for Medical Research, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, The Scripps Research Institute, and UCSD. More

Interview: Are Women
Forced to Choose Family over Work?
These Days, KPBS, March 15 -- Women are not entering the workforce as they once did. Some experts say mothers' overcrowded lives are limiting their roles in the work force. UCSD sociologist Mary Blair-Loy talks about how women are now negotiating career and family. More

The $94 Billion Question
Voice of San Diego, March 16 -- When members of the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority cite the need to replace Lindbergh Field, they frequently point to one figure: $94 billion dollars. That, they say, is how much money the region stands to lose if it doesn't meet the airport's future air-traffic demands. Ninety-four billion dollars. That's enough to pay the 2006 salaries of the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, solve San Diego's pension crisis and buy a 230-acre island in Fiji -- and still have $90 billion left over. But if you ask Richard Carson, chairman of the economics department at UCSD, the estimate is a bit too high. About $94 billion too high. More

Regents Meet to Unravel Compensation
Tri-Valley Herald, March 16 -- Hounded by a compensation scandal, University of California President Robert Dynes on Wednesday reiterated his vow to tighten university rules and introduced two new policies to improve oversight of executive spending. "We take these issues very seriously, and we're very intent on fixing the problem and tightening up the system so that the things that have happened do not happen again," Dynes said during his introductory comments at UC's Board of Regents meeting at UCLA. (Mentions UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox.) More

Not Knowing Nothing
San Diego City Beat, March 16 -- With topics like military strategy, energy policy, climate change, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, organized crime, foreign aid, racial segregation and integration, health policy and tobacco and drug policy under his belt, the question for Nobel Laureate Thomas Schelling—he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics last year—isn’t what does he knows, but what, exactly, doesn’t he know. (Notice of lecture on UCSD campus on Monday, March 20). More

$20 Million Gift
is Biggest Ever for the Old Globe
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 16 -- The largest gift in the Old Globe's history – $20 million from philanthropists Donald and Darlene Shiley – will be announced today as the theater launches a campaign to build a new second stage, create an education center and bolster its endowment. (Mentions last year's $4 million gift to UCSD for its Alzheimer's disease research center.) More