A Sampling of Clips for 
May 15 - 17, 2004

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Not Separate, Yet Unequal
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 16-The achievement gap between local white and Latino students remains wide 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education. Students of different colors share classrooms and playgrounds, but they do not as groups achieve the same results in school. Some minority and low-income students see low expectations when they talk to educators. This doesn't happen at The Preuss School at UCSD, which has the county's highest academic rating for low-income students. (Quote by Doris Alvarez, principal at the Preuss School at UCSD).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040516/news_lz1n16unequal.html

Local Architecture Wins Design Honors
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 16- Architecture at the University of California, San Diego won top honors at the San Diego American Institute of Architects' annual Design Awards program. The Honor Award went to the UCSD Natural Science building. An Honor Award "celebrates an extraordinary work of architecture worthy of study by the profession."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040516-9999-1m16aia.html

Tuna, Some Sharks Share Swim Muscle
San Francisco Chronicle, May 17-Large tuna and mako sharks are among the fastest predators in the ocean. Marine biologist Jeanine M. Donley, of UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and four colleagues showed that tuna and some sharks developed the same ultra-efficient swimming technique despite 400 million years of independent evolution.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/05/17/MNGMO6MK8N1.DTL

UCSD Weight-Loss Study Conducted Over 'Net
The San Diego Channel 10, May 14-University of California, San Diego researchers are trying to help men who are struggling to lose weight. They are conducting a research study called Men In Motion -- which takes a new approach to weight loss. There are no weekly weigh-ins or meetings and the participants do everything via the Internet. http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/health/3306619/detail.html

A New Spike in Prices Raises Fears for the World Economy
Financial Times (London, England), May 17- A new spike in prices raises fears for the world economy. But this is not the next great oil shock - at least not yet. Hopes of cheap fuel from Iraq may have been disappointed, yet even at $40 a barrel the market could be much worse. The worry is that events in the Middle East could push prices still higher. (Quote by James Hamilton, professor of economics at UC San Diego.)
http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=040517001024&query=
new+spike&vsc_appId=totalSearch&state=Form

Diabetes and Heart Disease
Copley News Service, May 17-Women with type 2 diabetes mellitus are at a greater risk of cardiovascular disease compared to nondiabetic women. That from researchers at the University of California, San Diego.
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