A Sampling of Clips for
March 22, 2006
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Letters to the Editor:
The Navy and San Diego’s Airport Question
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 22 -- As a native San Diegan, member of the Navy League, and a retired aerospace industry engineer responsible for electronic equipment used in Navy aircraft and ships, I am in full support of the points made by UCSD historians Michael A. Bernstein and Abraham Shragge concerning the generosity that San Diegans have consistently shown to our Navy (Refers to “The Navy and a New Airport,” Opinion, March 17). More
Seven San Diego Women Set to be Honored
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 22 -- Seven San Diego women will be inducted into the county Women's Hall of Fame during ceremonies Saturday at the UCSD Price Center Ballroom. Sally Ride, America's first woman in space and professor of physics at UCSD, will receive the 2006 Spirit of the Hall of Fame award. More
3D Virtual Fish Dissection
ZDNet.Com, March 21 -- The National Science Foundation has awarded researchers at UCSD’s Keck Center for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Scripps Institution of Oceanography a grant to use magnetic resonance imaging to create a high-resolution, 3-dimensional, online catalog of fishes. More
Thinking Globally
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 22 -- As crazy as it might seem to anyone who lived through it, the Cold War decades – when people around the world lived in fear of nuclear Armageddon – are now seen as almost quaint by those who theorize about threats to global security. (Quotes Peter Cowhey, director of the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and dean of the UCSD Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, and UCSD economist Gordon Hanson.) More
Alvarado Heart Bypass Death Rate Worst
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 22 -- Alvarado Hospital Medical Center in San Diego had the state's worst death rate from heart bypass surgery in 2003, even when patients' risk factors were considered, according to a state report released yesterday. (Mentions UCSD’s Medical Center and Thornton Hospital, and quotes Tom McAfee, UCSD's physician-in-chief.) More
