A Sampling of Clips for 
May 06, 2005

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New Technology to Help Blast-Proof Buildings
NPR, May 5-Nell Boyce reports on how a device developed by engineers at UCSD may revolutionize building safety. The new technology mimics the way a bomb's shockwaves affect buildings and could allow scientists to do faster, cheaper tests of blast-proof materials without using real explosives. More

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CNN, May 5

Underdog Incumbent L.A. Mayor Seeks Votes
Los Angeles Times, May 5-Strapped for cash and running out of time, Mayor James Hahn is trying to engineer a come-from-behind victory by dispatching hundreds of volunteers to make phone calls and knock on doors in a city where the surest route to victory is usually a blitz of TV commercials. (Quote by Steve Erie, a professor at UCSD.) More

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UK Guardian, May 5
Newsday, May 5
Contra Costa Times, May 6
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 6

These Days
KPBS-FM, May 4-David Antin, professor emeritus of visual arts at UCSD, performed some of his "talk poetry" and discusses the philosophy behind the form. More

Experts Dispute Remark That Living Wills Save Money
Washington Post, May 6-Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said this week that encouraging senior citizens to write living wills could dramatically reduce Medicare's skyrocketing health care costs. (Quote by Lawrence J. Schneiderman, a professor of family and preventive medicine at UCSD.) More

Wireless World: Bomb Detection Wirelessly
Washington Times, May 6-The bomb detection network at the Statue of Liberty was developed by MSGI Security Solutions and Michael Stapleton Associates Ltd., both in New York City. The network sends a fully encrypted digital signal over a private broadband network created solely for detecting bombs. (Refers to research conducted by UCSD.) More

City Received Selection Panel's Backing,
but Other Cities Making Last-Ditch Pitch
San Francisco Chronicle, May 6-San Francisco is the clear front-runner as the competition to secure California's prestigious new stem cell institute headquarters enters the final stretch today, but Sacramento and San Diego officials are pushing for a last-minute upset. More

Researchers Use Acoustic 3-D Imaging System to Unveil Swimming Behavior of Microscopic Plankton in the Ocean PhysOrg.com, May 5- An international team of scientists from Israel, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Germany led by Amatzia Genin of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has provided, for the first time, evidence of the remarkable dynamics responsible for the formation of zooplankton aggregations. More

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Innovations Report, May 5

Earth's Reflectivity a Great Unknown
in Gauging Climate Change Impacts
Innovations Report, May 6-Earth's climate is being changed substantially by a buildup of atmospheric greenhouse gases, but a group of leading climate scientists, including Francisco P.J. Valero at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, contends the overall impact is not understood as well as it should be because data are too scarce on how much energy the planet reflects into space. More

Direct Federal Loans said Best for Students
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 6-A report by a nonprofit student advocacy group shows California college students could receive at least $246 million more in aid if the government passes legislation to cut subsidies to student loan companies. At local universities, including UCSD, students could receive up to $4 million more in student aid if the legislation passes, according to the report. More

California's First-Generation Students
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, May 6-The latest numbers on the admission of what the University of California calls "underrepresented minorities," issued last month, are even less encouraging than the university claims. More

Letters to the Editor
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, May 6-Former University of California president Richard Atkinson is to be congratulated for withdrawing his name from consideration for the naming of UCSD's Sixth College. By doing so, Atkinson displays both his wisdom as an elder statesman and his respect for UCSD's current student body. (Letter written by Jorge Mariscal, a professor of literature at UCSD.) More

One and All Invited to Experience
Pearls Offered by Authors at UCSD
La Jolla Light, May 6-A Guggenheim, fellow, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a poetry fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts are a few of the acclaimed writers and poets who will present their latest works this spring as part of UCSD's 2005 New Writing Series. More