A Sampling of Clips for
May 14 - 15, 2003
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Key Ocean Fish Species
Ravaged, Study Finds
Washington Post, May 15 – Industrial
fishing practices have decimated every one of the world's biggest
and most economically important species of fish, according to
a new and detailed global analysis. The new research found that
fishing has become so efficient that it typically takes just
15 years to remove 80 percent or more of any species that becomes
the focus of a fleet's attention. Even where recovery efforts
are underway, the new work suggests that targets are much lower
than they ought to be -- reflecting a global memory loss about
just how many fish once roamed the sea and how large they once
were. "It's an incredibly important paper," said Jeremy
Jackson, a professor at Scripps Institution
of Oceanography. "The science is unassailable.
And the industry knows damn well it's getting harder and harder
to keep up."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57139-2003May14.html
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United Press International,
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New Findings
Could Lead To Cure
SanDiegoChannel.com, May 14 –
A newly published study by University of California,
San Diego researchers outlines a medical discovery
that could lead to a cure for a rare form of blindness, university
officials said Tuesday. The report, published this week in the
online journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
details the La Jolla-based team's isolation of a defective cellular
process that causes Usher syndrome 1B. The researchers at the
UCSD School of Medicine documented the malfunction
in mouse retinas, Sue Pondrom of UCSD
Health Science Communications said.
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/news/2202856/detail.html
Embracing
Performance Pay
Chronicle of Higher Education, May
16 – Critics discuss the pros and cons of incentive plan
for academic fund raisers. A few colleges hope that rewarding
fund raisers with cash for reaching specific goals will inspire
loyalty and bring in more gifts. (Quotes James M. Langley,
the vice chancellor for external relations at University
of California, San Diego and Sarah West,
associate vice chancellor for university development at UCSD).
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Connecting to a tutor computer
Australian,
May 14 – Experts say that children who grow
up in the digital age want to learn by doing rather than watching
or being told. Dr. Oblinger of Microsoft believes that it is
the influence of the online environment. At the University
of California, San Diego, for example, students are
using a specially created software program called Active Class
to post questions to lecturers during the lecture via a web
portal using their laptops and palmtops. This interactive approach
to education has great potential, Dr. Oblinger said.
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Lindbergh
Foundation awards will go to naturalist Fowler, actor Ford,
Sally Ride
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 15 –
Sally Ride, the first U.S. woman in space and
a physics professor at the University of California,
San Diego, Naturalist Jim Fowler and actor Harrison
Ford will come to the San Diego Aerospace Museum in Balboa Park
tomorrow to receive this year's Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Foundation awards. The awards ceremony is in San Diego this
year to mark the Lindbergh family's historic ties to the city,
said Reeve Lindbergh, the foundation president and youngest
child of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20030515-9999_6m15lind.html
Mind Games
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 15 –
Experts find that physical activities help stimulate neurological
development and specific mental improvement in children. "I
would not be surprised if it did," said Jaime Pineda,
a professor of cognitive science at University of California,
San Diego. "I would say that the animal evidence
suggests that doing specific types of physical activity probably
does change brain structure (and function), but whether those
are significantly meaningful is not yet clear. I fall on the
side that experience does shape our behavior and that it may
be possible to change neurological development with specific,
targeted exercises."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20030514-9999_mz1c14mind.html
Commuters end up going
nowhere fast
San
Diego Union-Tribune, May 15 – There was
plenty to aggravate drivers after Interstates 5 and 805 were
closed at the merge during the morning commute yesterday. A
construction crane that collapsed overnight and draped power
lines on the freeways was to blame for the commuting chaos.
Stephen Spector, a professor of pediatric infectious
diseases at University of California, San Diego,
said there were only three students in the room when he arrived
for his 8 a.m. lecture. By the time class ended, more than 50
had showed up. Mark Magulac, an adjunct clinical
professor with the psychiatry department at UCSD,
said he changed his driving plans seven times on the way to
work. "I'm sure I got the wrong route in the end,"
he said. "Every which way you turn – left, you turn
right – there's just no escaping it."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20030515-9999_2m15tales.html
