A Sampling of Clips for
March 30, 2004
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Kerry to
Unveil Plan to Slow Gas Prices
Los Angeles Times, March 30-Democratic
presidential candidate John F. Kerry will announce a plan today
in San Diego for reining in skyrocketing gas prices, saying
President Bush has done nothing to stop increases that are hurting
average Americans. Kerry's campaign said Monday night that the
candidate would use a rally at UC San Diego
this morning to propose increasing pressure on OPEC to produce
more crude oil and to suggest that the United States should
temporarily let supplies in its Strategic Petroleum Reserve
be depleted, making more gasoline available for consumers.
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NBC News, March 30
http://www.nbc4.tv/politics/2960877/detail.html
CBS News,
March 30
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/30/politics/main609326.shtml
CNN News,
March 30
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/30/kerry.fuel.ap
Fox News,
March 30
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,115597,00.html
Associated Press,
March 30
More see attached file...Kerry Announces
Boston Globe,
March 30
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2004/03/30/kerry_announces_plan_to_
control_cost_of_gas_with_prices_at_a_record_high/
USA Today,
March 30
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/primariescaucus/2004-03-30-kerry-gas_x.htm
San Jose Mercury News,
March 30
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/8309577.htm
KRON News (San Francisco),
March 30
http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1746728&nav=5D7lLtU3
New Bush Ad Assails Kerry on Gas Taxes
New York Times, March 30-As prices
at gasoline pumps skyrocket, President Bush uses a campaign
commercial to portray rival John Kerry as a tax-raising Democrat
who has backed higher gas taxes. The commercial is based on
-- but doesn't mention specifically -- several of Kerry's votes
as a senator, including his support for a 4.3-cent-per-gallon
gas tax increase in 1993 as a deficit-reduction measure. It
also is based on a 1983 Massachusetts gas-tax bill that was
signed into law when Kerry was lieutenant governor. Kerry was
unveiling his gas price reduction plan Tuesday at the University
of California, San Diego.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Bush-Ad.html
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San Francisco Chronicle, March 30
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/03/30/politics0706EST0502.DTL
Guardian (London),
March 30
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3920356,00.html
Associated Press,
March 30
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San Diego Channel,
March 30
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/politics/2960290/detail.html
San Diego Union-Tribune,
March 30
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/federal/20040330-9999-news_1n30kerry.html
Researchers Say Purebred Dogs Tend to
Look Similar to Owners
NBC News (Columbia, SC), March 30-A
new study testing the notion that dogs and their owners look
alike finds the theory is true, at least for purebreds. Scientists
from the University of California, San Diego,
had impartial judges try to match up pictures of 45 dogs and
their owners. If more than half of the judges paired the dog
with the right owner, researchers classified them as looking
alike.
http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1748491
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Agence France Presse, March 30
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Rail Renegades
Los Angeles Times, March 30-The long-abandoned
railroad through Carrizo Gorge in Anza-Borrego Desert State
Park attracts every sort of jury-rigged contraption, from bikes
modified to ride rails to dune buggies and VW chassis tricked
out to run on tracks -- even a rail-equipped bed frame powered
by lawnmower motor. But the free-for-all in the gorge might
be coming to an end. The line's operators, Carrizo Gorge Railway,
plan to resume running freight next month. (Quote by Reena
Deutsch, a UC San Diego professor
who gives talks on the history of the railway.)
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Know-How,
Hope on Staff at Med School
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 30-First
from Kenya came Rose Kamenwa. Comes now her
countryman Ahmed Laving. And if Joel Lavine
M.D., UCSD School of Medicine's chief of pediatric
gastroenterology, and his staff keep having a say, more Kenyans
will follow - a lot more. Laving and Kamenwa are two of only
three pediatric gastroenterologists in their home region, where
gastrointestinal problems and a perpetual scarcity of money
and resources plague the young. The two Kenyans - Laving, this
year; Kamenwa, three years ago - came to UCSD
seeking to improve their skills so that they could better treat
patients from Kenya and beyond and, at the same time, help teach
other doctors their specialty.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/roberts/20040330-9999_1c30ozzie.html
Correction:
University Cybersecurity Story
Associated Press, March 29-In a March
26 story about a speech by former presidential adviser Richard
A. Clark on cybersecurity, The Associated Press erroneously
reported that UCSD had notified tens of thousands
of students, parents, faculty and alumni that hackers had compromised
their privacy information. The notification was made by San
Diego State University, not the University of California
at San Diego.
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Terahertz
Research Gains Momentum -- Scientists in Many Disciplines Converge
on 'X-Ray Vision' Apps
Electronic Engineering Times, March
29-Already the first crude images from terahertz image chips
have proven that Superman-style "X-ray vision" may
soon be commonplace. Last year the European Space Agency's StarTiger
R&D team showed a 16-pixel device that they claim produced
the world's first terahertz picture of a human hand. The detector
used a silicon photonic-bandgap material. Even metamaterials
experts are getting in on the act. For instance, University
of California at San Diego physicists David
Smith, Richard Shelby and Sheldon
Schultz recently showed integrated 50-micron SRRs that
respond to the terahertz signal's magnetic component.
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