A Sampling of Clips for March 13^th, 2008

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China's Emissions Rising Faster than Thought - Report
Reuters, March 13 -- China is producing far more carbon dioxide (CO2) than previous estimates and this will frustrate global aims to stabilise atmospheric greenhouse gases, a group of U.S. economists, including UCSD’s Richard Carson, said. More

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Why Shouldn't the Public be Able
to Officially Register its Opinions of Public Servants?
Los Angeles Times, Opinion, March 13 – LAX is the world's fifth-busiest airport, with about 60 million passengers a year -- the equivalent of every man, woman and child in Britain, and all of them in line in front of me at the security checkpoint. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Steve Erie) More

Finances Still Bottom-line Issue for City
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 12 – It's a telling detail at a City Hall showing more signs of wear as San Diego has struggled with a string of annual budget deficits. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Steve Erie) More

A War Averted?
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, March 12 -- War in the Andes has been averted. Over the weekend, the leaders of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela apologized, hugged and made up at a hemispheric summit in the Dominican Republic. (Written by Jeremy Martin, director of the Energy Program at UCSD’s Institute of the Americas) More

"Your Matter is our Market!"
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 12 – "Your carbon is our lifeblood! Your matter is our market! Your DNA is all we need!" Those are some of the slogans you might hear in Spanish, English and German if you walk through particle group's installation at SDMA's exhibition "Inside the Wave" — a showcase of six Tijuana/San Diego artists, who also are UCSD faculty and students. More

Interview with UCSD Medical Center CEO Richard Liekweg
San Diego Physician, March 2008 – CEO Richard Liekweg talks about the challenges facing the UCSD Medical Center and health care in San Diego. More

Seismologist to Explain Earthquake Prediction
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 12 – Seismologist Hiroo Kanamori will explain earthquake prediction methods today at UCSD. Kanamori, winner of the 2007 Kyoto Prize in basic sciences, will detail the causes of earthquakes and why they produce tsunamis on the sea floor. More