A Sampling of Clips for
May 13, 2004
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Globe Grows Darker as Sunshine
Diminishes 10% to 37%
New
York Times, May 13-In the second half of the 20th
century, the world became, quite literally, a darker place.
Defying expectation and easy explanation, hundreds of instruments
around the world recorded a drop in sunshine reaching the surface
of Earth, as much as 2 percent to 3 percent a decade. The dimming
trend - noticed by a handful of scientists 20 years ago but
dismissed then as unbelievable - is attracting wide attention.
(Quote by Veerabhadran Ramanathan, M.D., a
professor of climate and atmospheric sciences at the University
of California, San Diego.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/science/13DARK.html?ex=108502
5600&en=32f0ae5813346385&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
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San
Francisco Chronicle, May 13
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International Herald
Tribune, May 13
http://www.iht.com/articles/519769.html
Syndey Morning Herald,
May 13 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/13/1084289825203.html
Tri-Valley Herald,
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Oakland Tribune,
May 13
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San Mateo County Times,
May 13
http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/Stories/0,1413,87~
11268~2145511,00.html#
Bush Aide Tells Kerry to
Lay Off; Blaming President for Iraq Scandal is Exploitative,
He Says
San
Francisco Chronicle, May 13-Highlighting the political
stakes of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, President Bush's campaign
chairman, Marc Racicot, accused Sen. John Kerry Wednesday of
going "way beyond the bounds of appropriate conduct"
by blaming the reported abuses of prisoners on the "arrogance"
of Bush's Iraq policy. Several independent analysts said the
fervor of Racicot's comments demonstrated the perils of campaigning
as a "wartime president" without being in firm control
of the war. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a professor
of political science at UC San Diego.)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/05/13/MNGFQ6KFBJ1.DTL
U.S. Schools Still Separate
and Unequal, Author Charges
News
Tribune, May 13- Fifty years after the Supreme
Court officially ended racial segregation in American schools,
those schools remain separate and unequal, and the court is
largely to blame, Peter Irons, author and law
professor at the University of California, San Diego,
charged Tuesday night in a speech at The Evergreen State College's
Tacoma, Washington, campus. After it ended legal segregation
in its famous 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the
court took years to enforce its own decision and later backed
away from desegregation, Irons said. As a result,
he said, schools today are largely divided into black and white,
with minorities confined to substandard inner-city schools while
white students attend superior suburban schools.
http://www.tribnet.com/news/local/story/5061873p-4989649c.html
Group Seeks
Standards for Handling Data
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 12- A
group of drug companies, biotechnology firms, research institutes
and computer experts in San Diego spent the past year creating
the Life Sciences Information Technology Global Institute, a
nonprofit group that will seek to develop standards for collecting,
storing and analyzing the reams of scientific data generated
in the development of new drugs. Sun Microsystem's Howard Asher,
director of Global Life Sciences in San Diego, worked with UCSD's
Global Connect program to move ahead with the idea for developing
standards.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20040512-9999-1b12it.html
'Day After'
Uses Dramatic License with Science Issue to Heat Up Silver Screen
Winston Salem Journal, May 13- Brace
yourself. After decades spent tackling volcanoes, aliens, earthquakes,
asteroids and every other disaster imaginable, Hollywood has
turned its attention to one of the hottest scientific and political
issues of the day: climate change. In this $125 million movie,
global warming sets off a cascade of events that practically
flash freeze the planet. It's an abruptness few say they believe
is possible, nonetheless, scientists are embracing the movie,
unusual for those whose stock in trade is fact. (Quote by Tim
Barnett, a marine physicist at the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMG
Article%2FWSJ_RelishArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031775396816
&path=!entertainment!movies&s=1037645508976
Hackers
Infiltrate UCSD, SDSU Computers
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 13-San
Diego ranks 10th among major metropolitan areas in identity
theft complaints per capita, according to a report issued in
January by the Federal Trade Commission. That ignominious ranking
is more likely to get worse, rather than better, given recent
breaches in computer security at two local universities, affecting
hundreds of thousands of individuals. Last week, officials at
the University of California, San Diego confirmed
that roughly 380,000 students, alumni, faculty, employees and
applicants for admission had their personal data compromised
after computer hackers stole into a university server.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040513/news_lz1ed13bottom.html
Man Donates
Kidney To Save Brother's Life
San Diego Channel 10, May 12- Brothers
Ernie and Ricky Medina of Chula Vista have always looked out
for each other. Ricky was once again watching out for his brother
when he went to University of California San Diego
Medical Center two months ago. There, he donated a kidney to
keep Ernie alive. UCSD transplant surgeons
Dr. Marcus Hart and Dr. Ajai Khanna
performed the transplant.
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/health/3296780/detail.html
