A Sampling of Clips for March 3^th, 2008

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Will Dams Again Rise Across the West?
MSNBC, March 3 -- The Western states’ era of massive dam construction — which tamed rivers, swallowed towns, and created irrigated agriculture, cheap hydropower and environmental problems — effectively ended in 1966 with the completion of Glen Canyon Dam. (Mentions the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

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Cholesterol-Lowering Statins Tied to Tendon Woes
U.S. News & World Report, Feb. 29 -- Cholesterol-lowering statins could raise the risk for tendon problems, French researchers report. (Dr. Beatrice Golomb, an associate professor of medicine and of family and preventive medicine at UCSD) More

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California's Water Fortune is Told at Gin Flat
Los Angeles Times, March 3 – Gin Flat is like a Rosetta Stone for California's water supply. It's where the convergence of snow, sun and temperature enables scientists to predict floods or drought. (Quotes Michael D. Dettinger, a U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist based at Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

Interview: UCSD's V.C. of Student Affairs Penny Rue
San Diego Union-Tribune, February 29 – UCSD Vice Chancellor Penny Rue talks about her job, moving to California and her favorite books in one of the sections of the San Diego Union-Tribune. More

UC to Turn Capitol Park Even Greener on Tuesday
Sacramento Bee, March 3 -- Capitol Park is usually a pretty green place anyway, but the University of California will add to the "green" theme by showing off its sustainability innovations. UCSD researchers will show how microweather stations help make smart decisions about how to design and operate buildings, manage irrigation and monitor air pollution exposure. More

Fed Rate Cuts Expand Worries of Inflation Speedup
Chicago Tribune, March 2 -- The Federal Reserve's problem with inflation shows no signs of abating, highlighting difficult choices for policymakers over coming months.(Quotes UCSD economist James Hamilton) More

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An Economic Slowdown?
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, March 3 – Sixty-one percent of Americans believe that the U.S. economy is already experiencing a recession, reported a recent AP/Ipsos poll. (Written by James Hamilton, a professor of economics at UCSD) More

From Tap to Sewer to Tap. Ew?
Chicago Tribune, March 3 -- Parched by a deepening water crisis, the West has launched the world's largest operation to recycle sewage water—and the first such major effort in America—but some residents of Orange County are finding it hard to swallow and branding it distastefully as "toilet-to-tap.” (Quotes Dan Cayan, a climate researcher with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

UCSD Students Team With TJ Locals to Help Stem Border Pollution
KPBS, Feb. 29 --  About 80 UCSD students will join residents of an impoverished Tijuana neighborhood on Saturday to build environmentally-sound paving tiles. The tile will help soak up and filter water to stem the flow of polluted runoff to San Diego and serve as a model for both sides of the border. More

UCSD Library Hosts Party for Dr. Seuss' Birthday
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 3 -- The 104th birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel – better known as Dr. Seuss – will be marked today outside the UCSD Geisel Library. A giant inflatable Cat in the Hat will be at the birthday celebration site along with 2,000 pieces of cake. Geisel's widow, Audrey, will cut the first slices. More

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Drug Test or Trust: There's a Lot at Stake
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 1 – Here's some chilling reading for a March morning: Nearly one-third of all eighth-graders have taken an illicit drug; half of all teenagers say they've had a drink in the last 30 days; every day, almost 6,000 youths under 18 start smoking cigarettes. What's a parent to do? (Quotes Mary Devereaux, who directs the biomedical ethics seminars for UCSD's Research Ethics Program) More

'We Make the City Look Good'
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 2 -- Sure, Oceanside has a great beach and the longest wooden pier on the West Coast, but what else is there to do in town? (Mentions guest curator Bram Dijkstra, a noted art historian and professor emeritus from UCSD) More

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Singing with Signing
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 3 -- The Cuyamaca College American Sign Language Choir is made up of hearing teachers and students who consider the visual language an art form. (Quotes UCSD professor and poet Michael Davidson, who has written about deaf performers) More

A Campus Reaching Back
San Diego Jewish Journal, March 2008 – In all, 52,000 digital oral histories were recorded by Holocaust survivors and compiled in the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive. The archive is permanently housed at USC but is also available at UCSD under a pilot agreement as of last summer — one of only a handful of other universities internationally with access to the archives. More

Keep Emergency Supplies Here
North County Times, Opinion, March 3 -- A recent  proposal to move a 12.5-ton stockpile of emergency medical supplies designed for San Diego County to the L.A. area made almost no sense. (Mentions Dr. Jake Jacoby of UCSD) More