A Sampling of Clips for 
March 26 - 29, 2004

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Action to Protect Salmon Urged
Los Angeles Times, March 26-Six leading marine scientists who were hired as government advisors only to find their recommendations stripped from an official report, went public today with their views -- that federal action is urgently needed to protect more than a dozen populations of West Coast salmon and steelhead trout from the threat of extinction. The scientists, including Russell Lande of the University of California at San Diego, published their recommendations in today's issue of the journal Science after their advice was dropped from a scientific review of salmon recovery methods commissioned by the National Marine Fisheries Service.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-salmon26mar26,1,1261298.story

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Arizona Republic, March 26
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0326salmon-scientists-ON.html#

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 25
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=WST%20Salmon%20Scientists

Kerry Cites Scripture, Appeals for 'Works of Compassion'
Los Angeles Times, March 29-John F. Kerry delivered an emotional appeal for national unity at an African American church in Los Angeles on Sunday, saying that random violence, hunger and joblessness required all Americans to be "doers of the word and not hearers only." In advance of a two-day California campaign swing that begins today in Sacramento, Kerry abandoned his standard speech and recent focus on job creation. The Massachusetts senator referred several times to scripture in saying all Americans needed to do more to benefit the public good. On Tuesday, Kerry is scheduled to hold a rally at UC San Diego to talk about rising gas prices, with his West Coast swing ending that night at a Beverly Hills fundraiser.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-kerry29mar29,1,6129641.story

Mexico: Free For All
Newsweek, April 5-A prominent member of the Mexico City legislature named Rene Bejarano was speaking on a morning television news program nearly a month ago about campaign rival spending money lavishly in a Las Vegas casino, when he was suddenly confronted with footage of himself accepting $45,000 in cash from a shady businessman-so much money, in fact, that Bejarano had to stuff some of the greenbacks into the pockets of his suit. Mexico's "videogate" scandal has deepened the cynicism that millions of its citizens have traditionally harbored toward their elected officials-and thrown the 2006 presidential race wide open yet again. (Quote by Jeffrey Davidow, the director of the Institute of the Americas at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4616344/

Showdown In Taiwan
Business Week, April 5-In the days following President Chen Shui-bian's narrow reelection on Mar. 20, thousands of demonstrators gathered in a Taipei square to denounce what they called election fraud. As the contested election causes turmoil, the Taiwan economy will suffer, and the impact will be felt around the globe. (Quote by Susan Shirk, a professor at the University of California at San Diego.)
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_14/b3877002.htm

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Reuters, March 28
http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp;:40666ea2:32a571498abf7c4?type=worldNews&locale=en_IN&storyID=4677880

Windfalls From New Donor Class
Financial Times (London, England), March 29-Anyone who was in doubt that the US economy is finally bouncing back need look no further than the country's business schools, which are now enjoying an absolute windfall in donations. In the past two months more than Dollars 150m (Pounds 83m) has dropped into business school coffers, a sure sign that the wealthy are looking to offload their tax liabilities. At the beginning of this month, Mr. Garvin gave Dollars 60m to Thunderbird in Arizona, the largest single donation in history to a business school. Meanwhile Ernest Rady, a financial and property magnate, gave Dollars 30m to stamp his name on the front of the new business school at the University of California, San Diego.
http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=040329001213&query=Windfalls+from+new+donor+class&vsc_appId=totalSearch&state=Form

Sudden Deaths of Older Athletes may be Tied to Exercise
San Francisco Chronicle, March 28-The statistical death rate among marathon runners has been estimated around 1 in 50,000. About half a million people run marathons each year in the United States. Many things can go wrong, including some relatively common problems like high cholesterol leading to heart disease. In other cases, though, doctors may have no clues at all. There is still no practical way to detect all the subtle forms of heart defects, especially in seemingly healthy trained athletes, in time to do something. (Quote by Kenneth Chien M.D., director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine at UC San Diego.)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/28/MNG1A5SKTC1.DTL

Global Cooling? History Reveals Cold, Hard Facts
Seattle Times, March 26-The Little Ice Age and "the 8,200-year event" are not exactly household terms. Once, only a handful of climate scientists puzzled over these episodes of abrupt climate change. Now, the topic is getting scrutiny from the Pentagon, Congress and even Hollywood - where a disaster movie set for release in May depicts a sudden deep freeze. In 1999, a team led by Jeffrey Severinghaus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., determined that the last ice age ended with a temperature burst that raised the thermostat at Greenland by some 16 degrees over a mere decade.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001888489_iceage26.html

Building Program at UCSD Continues Tradition of Architecturally Distinct Colleges
San Diego Daily Transcript, March 25-Ask students to describe walking through a prestigious university and they'll talk about luxurious green quads spacing out grandiose stone buildings of Colonial design covered with thick ivy. But walking through the campus of the University of California at San Diego is like being teleported to a city of distinctive neighborhoods from "Star Trek," a futuristic array of sharp angular shapes, large concrete edifices adorned with glass and mirrored walls, complemented with large open interiors and soothing curved wooden ceilings -- and this is how they want it. There are currently more than 15 buildings under construction on the campus, another 21 in the drawing stage of development, seven in preliminary planning and 10 in initial planning stages. In total, UCSD is undergoing more than $946 million in expansion. (Quote by UCSD campus architect M. Boone Hellman.)
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Young Minds Take a Look at Old and New Urban Problems
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 28- Ask a group of college students majoring in urban studies to explore a hot issue, and they bring their natural sense of idealism, common sense and outside-the-box thinking to the task. Such was the case earlier this month when 40 seniors at the University of California, San Diego turned in their theses to professor Keith Pezzoli and displayed their findings in the 14th annual urban studies expo. Steve Erie, who oversees the urban studies and planning program, praised the students for their contribution to the understanding of San Diego's many problems.
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Don't Skip this Rite of Spring: Flower Fields
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, March 28-San Diego Union-Tribune reporter, Mary Curran-Downey encourages local San Diegans to visit The Flower Fields of Carlsbad, currently open for the season. A recent display titled "The Color Project," features commissioned artists who normally work with paint and canvas to use flowers instead. One artist featured is Patricia Patterson, a professor in the visual arts department at University of California, San Diego.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20040328-9999-news_1mi28curran.html

Teacher Travels World to Bring Science Alive
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 28-For Debra Brice's students, learning goes beyond the confines of the classroom. Brice's eighth-graders have explored the research vessel Roger Revelle. They have learned about the workings of a fusion reactor. They have had close-up looks at moon rocks. And they have met with physicists and oceanographers, including those from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20040328-9999-news_m1m28tfsm.html

Volunteers Train as 'Grunion Greeters'
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 27-San Diegans will have a prominent role in the most detailed grunion census to be conducted along the Southern California coastline since 1947. Approximately 140 volunteers turned out Thursday at the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla to be trained as citizen scientists to help researchers gather data on grunion runs this spring and summer. The late Boyd Walker of UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the late 1940s conducted the last comprehensive survey of grunion throughout its range from Punta Abrejos in Baja to Point Conception near Santa Barbara. Martin's use of citizen volunteers for field research was successfully pioneered during her initial studies of San Diego's grunion populations in 2002.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040327-9999-news_2m27greeters.html

Doubts Raised Over Drugs for Cholesterol
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wisconsin), March 28-A growing number of researchers, doctors and patients are wondering whether so-called statin drugs, drugs that lower cholesterol, are associated with significantly more side effects, both minor and more serious, than previously thought. (Quote by Beatrice Golomb, an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.jsonline.com/alive/news/mar04/217976.asp

Hospitals Say Long Nails Bacterial Risk to Patients
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 27-At Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, several health workers were recently placed on administrative leave and told that until they fixed their fingernails, they must stay away from patients. The problem: Health providers' fingernails that are too long or are artificial can be deadly to sick people. Studies offer mounting evidence that long nails or those that are bonded with cosmetic acrylic or plastic material can shelter bacteria, viruses or fungi such as yeast and pose a special danger to those with weakened immune systems. At UCSD Medical Center, those health care workers who have direct contact with patients must have complied with a new policy as of Jan. 1.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/health/20040327-9999-news_1n27nails.html

Tobacco Jurors Back to the Box
Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA), March 29-Having concluded last summer that the nation's biggest tobacco companies conspired to mislead the public about the dangers of lighting up and therefore should have to help Louisiana smokers kick the habit, a New Orleans jury is scheduled to return to court Wednesday to begin hearing testimony in the second phase of trial of the class action case. First on the stand for the plaintiffs will be University of California, San Diego internist and preventive-medicine specialist David Burns M.D., who is expected to recommend that the companies be made to spend more than $13 million a year for 25 years -- for a total of $1.1 billion -- to help Louisiana smokers quit.
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