A Sampling of Clips for March 12^th, 2008

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China Defends Role in Climate Change
Business Week, March 12 -- China insisted that developed countries were chiefly responsible for global warming, saying Wednesday that critics of the country's soaring emission levels must also factor in its massive population. Officials spoke a day after a report released in California by UCSD and UC Berkeley researchers said the growth in China's carbon dioxide emissions was far outpacing previous estimates. More

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Flaw in the £7bn Fusion Power Plan
Daily Telegraph, United Kingdom, March 11 -- Scientists have had to devise a magnetic "patch" to fix an explosive flaw in a £7 billion project to harness the nuclear power source that makes the Sun shine. (Quotes Rick Moyer, a plasma physicist at UCSD) More

Lake’s Ghost Town Seen as a Warning
Las Vegas Sun, March 12 -- A recent study by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego found that Lake Mead, which supplies 90 percent of Las Vegas’ drinking water and water for all other uses throughout the Southwest, could go dry in 13 years. The region’s water officials have, in large part, dismissed the study as overly pessimistic. But they admit that no one knows how long the drought will last or what role climate change will play in the drying of the Southwest. More

Jean Lowe: ‘Achieve and Maintain a More Powerful Delusion’
The New York Times, March 7 -- Based in San Diego, Jean Lowe, a lecturer at UCSD, has specialized in constructing satiric museum-style period rooms out of papier-mâché and enamel paint. More

7 Hospitals Ask for Redo on State Seismic-risk Test
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 12 -- Seven hospitals in the county hoping to postpone costly building upgrades due in 2013 have asked state regulators to re-evaluate whether their structures face a risk of collapsing in a major earthquake. (Mentions the UCSD Medical Center) More

Program Taps College Grads to Help Kids
10News, March 12 -- A new program in San Diego uses college graduates to help turn around the lives of troubled teens. Brian May, 22, is a UCSD graduate who grew up in City Heights. More

Joint Doctorate Programs for Two Universities OK'd
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 12 -- The development of four SDSU joint doctorate programs with UC San Diego was unanimously approved by California State University trustees yesterday. The programs are in geophysics, bioengineering, structural engineering, and electrical and computer engineering. Geophysics also would involve a partnership with Scripps Institution of Oceanography. More

Man Pleads Guilty to Making Bomb Threats
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 12 -- A La Jolla man who was a temporary worker at UCSD pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to making bogus bomb threats to an animal research facility on the campus. More

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