A Sampling of Clips for 
March 25, 2003

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Learning From the Last Time; Treatment And Training Help Reduce Stress of War
New York Times, Mar. 25 – Experts who study traumatic reactions to combat say some percentage of the highly trained and highly disciplined forces now in Iraq are bound to suffer damaging mental injuries from the experience. At the same time, the experts say, the American armed forces, schooled by the experiences of Vietnam and the first gulf war, have grown far more sophisticated in their approach to the psychological pressures of battle. (Mentions University of California, San Diego).
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Super-Cheap Supercomputing?
Forbes, Mar. 25 – Star Bridge Systems claims to have created a reconfigurable "hypercomputer" that performs like a supercomputer but sits on a desktop, uses very little electricity, needs no special cooling systems and costs as little as $175,000. Instead of yoking together hundreds or even thousands of microprocessors--as traditional supercomputers do--Star Bridge uses a dozen or so relatively inexpensive field-programmable gate array (FPGA) chips. (Quotes Allan Snavely, a computer scientist at the University of California, San Diego Supercomputer Center).
http://www.forbes.com/2003/03/25/cz_dl_0325star2.html

Updates on Billion-Dollar Campaigns at 21 Universities
Chronicle of Higher Education, Mar. 25 – The University of California, San Diego announced a campaign this month to raise $1-billion by June 2007. The money will support a number of areas, including scholarships, professorships, new professional schools, and health-care research. UCSD has raised $445-million as of March 15.
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Metaphysical Lens May Refocus Electronics
NewsFactor Network, Mar. 24 – The creation of an unusual flat lens may finally resolve a long-running controversy about the existence of materials that have metaphysical qualities -- so-called "metamaterials" -- that transcend the laws of nature. (Quotes David Smith and Sheldon Schultz of the University of California, San Diego).
http://sci.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21079.html#story-start

Dwindling snowmelt trouble for thirsty SW
Arizona Daily Star, Mar. 25 – The rush of spring snowmelt cascading from alpine meadows down to cactus-studded canyons is what fills the Southwest's reservoirs and recharges its underground aquifers. Below-average snowfall in recent years has been the norm in the Southwest who depends on snowmelt to run a colossal plumbing system of canals and hydroelectric dams that supports 25 million people and some of the world's most productive farmland. (Mentions Scripps Institution of Oceanography).
http://www.dailystar.com/star/today/30325SNOWPACKMAIN.html

Timken Museum creates fellowship with UCSD
San Diego Union-Tribune, Mar. 25 – This is the first year for the doctoral program in Art History, Theory and Criticism at University of California, San Diego, and to mark its inception, Balboa Park's Timken Museum of Art has created a fellowship in conjunction with the university. It is awarding $5,000 each year to a student in the program whose area of study corresponds to the many significant works in the Timken's Putnam Foundation Collection. (Quotes Susan Smith, chair of UCSD's visual arts department).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/tue/currents/news_
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Some face dilemma over use of valproate
Copley News Service, Mar. 24 – According to a new study, infants exposed in the womb to valproate – a common drug for seizures, migraines and mood disorders – have twice as many birth defects as previously thought, posing a troubling dilemma for doctors and mothers-to-be. (Quotes Dr. Kenneth Lyons Jones, director of the California Pregnancy Risk Information line at University of California, San Diego).
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