A Sampling of Clips for
March 19 th, 2007
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State's Stem Cell Institute Gives 29 Grants
Los Angeles Times, March 17 -- California's voter-created stem cell institute awarded 29 research grants worth almost $76 million to researchers at academic and nonprofit research centers Friday, including UCSD. The grants, the second round announced this year, bring the amount the state is spending on the nascent science to about $158 million. More
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Planning Ahead
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 18 -- Give the UCSD Medical Center credit: It has laid out a plan to meet two health care needs of the county's central region: more hospital beds and facilities to meet the state-mandated seismic requirements through 2030. For its foresight, it's getting clobbered by other hospitals in other county regions that seem to have no plans at all. More
Cleaning Up the 20th Century
The New York Times, March 18 – Diplomats from the United States, North Korea, China, Japan, South Korea and Russia will reconvene Monday in Beijing with a docket that is still dominated by nuclear disarmament but that also now includes unresolved disputes that have bedeviled northeast Asia for decades. (Quotes Susan L. Shirk, a State Department official responsible for East Asia during the Clinton administration and now director of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at UCSD) More
Seeds of Doubt
The New York Times, March 18 -- What if you were a poet of supreme concision — having learned much from Emily Dickinson — and you wanted to make vivid, bitter poems from that anxious and baffling predicament? You would, with some luck and more practice, be Rae Armantrout, who has been writing such poems for 30 years, at first for a West Coast cult following, now for what should be a national audience. Armantrout is a literature professor at UCSD. More
The Afternoon Nap Attack
U.S. News & World Report, March 18 -- Brief catnaps after lunch are commonplace in many Taiwanese companies. Typically, all workers take lunch around the same time, from noon to 1:30. After eating, those employees who wish to can flick off their desk lamps, pull out a pillow, and take a snooze lasting perhaps 15 to 30 minutes. Even those workers who aren't napping will usually dim their lights and speak softly until the break is over. (Quotes UCSD sleep expert Sara Mednick) More
The Science of Lasting Happiness
Scientific American, April 2007 – Sonja Lyubomirsky, Kennon Sheldon and another researcher, David A. Schkade of UCSD’s Rady School of Management, put the existing findings together into a simple pie chart showing what determines happiness. More
China Soot Heating Pacific Ocean
Discovery Channel, March 17 -- The carbon soot from China is warming and polluting the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean and all the way to North America, according to a new study, led by V. Ramanathan, a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD. The effect on the Pacific Ocean, the largest and most influential ocean on the planet, could have global climate implications, the study's authors conclude. More
McCain Tangled in Bush Backlash
Arizona Republic, March 18 -- For the Republican contenders hoping to succeed President Bush, including Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the White House's increasingly controversial legacy could turn the 2008 political landscape into a minefield. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Samuel Popkin) More
Talk as a Marketing Tool
The Orange County Register, March 19 -- Marketing is tough for most small-business owners. But most don't use one of their best marketing tools: their mouth. "The best proactive business development strategy… is to demonstrate expertise regularly by giving informative talks in front of targeted groups of potential new clients," said Henry DeVries, founder of the New Client Marketing Institute in Irvine and San Diego, who also teaches at UCSD. More
Bookworms Like What They Hear
Contra Costa Times, March 18 -- The audiobook market has grown to nearly $1 billion a year, mostly a result of the popularity of downloading centers such as Audible.com, according to the latest research. (Quotes Michael Cole, professor of communication at UCSD) More
Singing 'Blues'
Scientists Interpret Whale Song
North County Times, March 17 -- Scientists have long figured that the song of the blue whale, largest animal on the planet, had something to do with mating. Now they know for sure, thanks to a pair of related studies that researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD spearheaded. More
Anti-Aging Institute Selling
Extraction, Storage of Stem Cells
San Diego Business Journal, March 17 -- A local anti-aging institute has become the first to offer extraction and storage of adult stem cells for future medical uses in the region — and likely one of the first in the country. Some say the future promise of these cells is worth the cost of extracting and storing one’s cells. But others have their doubts. Director of the Stem Cell Research Program at UCSD, Dr. Larry Goldstein said it’s too early to say if adult stem cells could be beneficial beyond blood cancers, and a “short list” of other uses. More