A Sampling of Clips for 
March 13, 2003

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Neighborhood watch: Second sight Dave Birch
Guardian (London), Mar. 13 – Soon we will be able to know where everyone and everything is, all the time. Radio frequency identification is about smart cards, smart tags and the like. Essentially, we can now add tiny computer chips to everything from medicine bottles to cans of beans (or London Transport tickets) and read and update data on these chips at a distance. In places where networks are already pervasive and free, there is an explosion of creativity in this field. At the University of California, San Diego, students have location-enhanced buddy lists to show them where their friends are on campus.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,912600,00.html

Market misery universal
San Diego Union-Tribune, Mar. 13 – From the new trading halls of Shanghai and Beijing to the established bourses of Tokyo, Frankfurt, Paris and London, the world's stock markets are enduring what is arguably the worst period of simultaneous prolonged anguish since the Great Depression. One reason for the downturn is investors' fear about impending war with Iraq. (Quotes Takeo Hoshi, a University of California, San Diego economist specializing in Japan).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/
uniontrib/thu/business/news_1b13markets.html

Six-injection course to treat ragweed allergy
Times of India, Mar. 13 – Researchers at John Hopkins have discovered a new treatment, consisting of just six shots in six weeks, for serious ragweed allergy. This also reduced, for at least one season, allergic symptoms like runny nose, nasal congestion and sneezing. The new treatment is an allergy vaccine created by attaching immune-system-boosting molecules, or oligonucleotides, to Amb 1 a, the major ragweed protein responsible for allergic reactions. (Mentions University of California, San Diego).
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Depression Dominates In Bipolar II Disorder Patients
Doctor’s Guide, Mar. 13 – Bipolar II (BP-II) disorder is dominated by depressive rather than hypomanic or cycling/mixed symptoms, research in the United States indicates. Investigators led by Dr. Lewis Judd of the University of California at San Diego say "Longitudinally, BP-II is a chronic affective disorder expressed within each patient as a fluctuating dimensional, symptomatic continuum that includes the full severity range of depressive and hypomanic symptoms, but dominated primarily by minor and subsyndromal depression."
http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/8525697700573E1885256
CE7007D442D?OpenDocument&id=48DDE4A73E09A969852568880078C249
&c=Depression&count=10

Anti-smallpox pill still years to go
Marketplace Morning Report, Mar. 12 – Dr. Karl Hostetler of the University of California, San Diego has developed new compounds from cidofovir that can be taken in pill form and work against all the pox viruses, at least in mice. Dr. Hostetler said that even a single dose given a day after infection or even three days after infection is capable of providing complete protection.
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