A Sampling of Clips for 
March 12 ^th, 2007

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Winning the White House?
History's Against Them
The Washington Post, Opinion, March 11 -- The Democrats' road to the White House in 2008 runs through Congress, and it is uphill all the way. The last time either party captured the White House two years after wresting control of both House and Senate in midterm elections was in 1920. Democrats who think that it is their turn to expand their pet programs and please their core constituencies have forgotten how quickly congressional heavy-handedness can revive the president's party. (Co-authored by UCSD political scientist Samuel Popkin) More

The Sky's No Longer the Limit at LAX
Los Angeles Times, Opinion, March 11 -- Los Angeles, the city that huge public works projects built, has developed a bad case of airport envy. Having in the early 1960s led the nation into the Jet Age with state-of-the-art facilities, Los Angeles International Airport now looks shabby compared with the gleaming new terminals at San Francisco and Seattle-Tacoma airports. (Co-authored by Steven P. Erie, a professor of political science at UCSD) More

Nap More
Effective than Coffee
Chicago Tribune, March 12 -- If you feel like you're dragging at work, try grabbing a pillow instead of gulping down a latte. Catching some Z's at the office might seem like the worst thing to do when you're behind, but napping can improve productivity, according to sleep scientist Sara Mednick, a UCSD professor and author of "Take a Nap! Change Your Life." More

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UCSD Researchers Hope
to Unlock Aging Secrets in Twin Study
10News, March 9 -- Scientists at UCSD are trying to unlock the answer to successful aging by testing the brains of twins. Sets of twins from all parts of the country are coming to San Diego to help unchain the mysteries of their genetically similar minds. The secrets to successful aging could be locked in the human brain. More

UCSD Delays Hospital Project
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 10 -- UCSD officials yesterday said they have postponed a massive project in which all acute-care beds at their Hillcrest medical campus would move to Thornton Hospital in La Jolla by 2030, saying they may build new inpatient beds in Hillcrest after all. More

UCSD Women Vie for Regional Title
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 12 -- It didn't matter that the UCSD women's basketball team had won its first two postseason games by a combined 52 points. The Tritons aren't naive. They know the battle for the NCAA Division II West Regional championship will be a fierce one. More

Brenner Named to Institute Board
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 10 -- David Brenner, dean of UCSD’s medical school and vice chancellor of health sciences, was appointed to the board overseeing the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. He was appointed by UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Edward Holmes in October. Brenner, a leader in gastroenterological research, specializes in diseases of the liver. More

Five States Sign Climate Pact
North County Times, March 10 -- California is no longer alone in its campaign against climate change. The nation's most populous state, after passing a landmark law last year to slash industrial greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2020, has joined with Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington to address what some are calling one of the planet's most serious threats. (Quotes Lisa Shaffer, assistant director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD) More

Poway Student Organizes
Fundraiser to Help Africans
North County Times, March 10 -- Working to awaken her community to a crisis occurring thousands of miles away, 17-year-old Poway student Tahiya Sultan said she hopes to be a catalyst for change. With the help of UCSD's Amnesty International chapter, Tahiya organized and hosted a public event Saturday night, titled "Reach out to Darfur," to raise money and awareness of the genocide occurring in Africa. More

Adjust Your Internal Clock, Too
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 10 -- Every spring we are reminded to set our clocks ahead to daylight-saving time, and invariably some among us forget. They show up to Monday morning meetings that are wrapping up, out of breath and disheveled, muttering about the time change. (Quotes Dr. Jose S. Loredo of the UCSD Sleep Medicine Center) More

MDs, Pharmacies Changing
Ways Drugs Are Prescribed
NBC San Diego, March 9 -- At most pharmacies, machines do the counting to make sure patients get the right number of pills. But getting the right medicine, in the proper dosage, can be trickier, because a doctor's handwriting can be hard to decipher. "It's dangerous," said UCSD Medical Center pharmacist Gary Hagney. "There's a lot of patient deaths that result from taking medicine incorrectly, taking the wrong medication, the wrong dosage." More

Many Promising Technologies
Are on Fast Track to Commercialization
San Diego Business Journal, March 10 -- The Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology was designed to fast-track promising new products that may be used by the U.S. military and for homeland security, as well as having practical applications in the commercial sector. (Mentions UCSD) More