A Sampling of Clips for 
May 21, 2004

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UC Regents Raise Undergraduate Fees 14%; $700 increase puts cost at $6,230 a year
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 21, 2004 -- For the third time in as many years, University of California students face higher fees starting in the summer. UC regents yesterday overwhelmingly approved a 14 percent fee hike for undergraduates, a 20 percent increase for out-of-state and graduate students and a 30 percent boost for professional students.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20040521-9999-1n21fees.htm

UCSD Gets Permission to Move Ahead on Cardiovascular Center
North County Times, May 20, 2004 -- University of California regents gave UC San Diego approval today to begin planning the construction of a cardiovascular center facility and expand services at the university's Thornton Hospital. The UCSD Cardiovascular Center Board has raised $30 million to build the center, which will centralize the university's clinical and research activities in heart and vascular disease and stroke management. Dr. Anthony DeMaria, a cardiologist and researcher who specializes in cardiac diagnostics and ultrasound, was appointed director of the new center. (Quote by Edward W. Holmes, UCSD's vice chancellor for health sciences. )
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/05/21/special_reports/science
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City News Service, May 20, 2004
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Forests the Quicker Picker-Upper?
Rocky Mountain News, May 21, 2004 -- A 99-foot-long cargo plane packed with science gear swooped low over Front Range mountains Thursday to find out how much heat-trapping carbon dioxide is being slurped up by the forests. The Airborne Carbon in the Mountains Experiment unites researchers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, four universities and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,
DRMN_15_2903229,00.html

Galinson, Parsky to lead CSU, UC regents; New chairmen of the boards are from San Diego County
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 21, 2004 -- Gerald L. Parsky, a Rancho Santa Fe investor with close ties to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and President Bush, has been named chairman of the University of California board of regents. (Parsky served as a trustee of the UC San Diego Foundation.) http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20040521-9999-7m21appoint.htm

University of California, Regents' New Chairman is a Friend of Governor; Feinstein's Husband is Vice Chairman
San Francisco Chronicle, May 20, 2004 -- The new chairman of the University of California Board of Regents is a buddy of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's and a decades-old friend of the Bush family and is leading the charge in California for the president's re-election. But Gerald Parsky says that as chairman, he'll leave his political stripes at the door. (Parsky served as a trustee of the UC San Diego Foundation.)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/05/21/BAG8V6PMF01.DTL

San Diego Smallpox Project
City News Service, May 20, 2004 -- UCSD and a La Jolla immunology research group have been selected as part of a national project to develop a safer smallpox vaccine. The effort, launched by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, seeks to reduce the risk of eczema vaccinatum, or EV, a severe and potentially deadly reaction to conventional smallpox vaccines.
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Glaucoma Cases Increasing Worldwide
UPI, May 20, 2004 -- Glaucoma affects more than 66 million people worldwide and is the second leading cause of blindness. In the United States, health costs from glaucoma-related blindness are estimated to be more than $1.5 billion a year, and the magnitude of the problem will increase as the population ages, said the researchers, from the University of California, San Diego, and the Moorfields Eye Hospital and Institute of Ophthalmology in London.
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Pushing Their Limits: Triathletes Bring Their Elite Sport to Sacramento Area
Sacramento Bee , May 21, 2004 -- More than 1,000 participants from 30 states and 10 countries are expected to compete in the first CaliforniaMan Triathlon in Folsom on Saturday. Among them is Rick Kronick, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. Kronick, 51,began competing at age 39. He started swimming in his late 20s but spent most of his youth on the sidelines of sports. "I was the last kid chosen to play basketball then," he said. ."This is my revenge."
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/9370718p-10295179c.html

NUMBER THEORY: Proof Promises Progress in Prime Progressions
Science Magazine, May 21, 2004 -- The theorem that Ben Green and Terence Tao set out to prove would have been impressive enough. Instead, the two mathematicians wound up with a stunning breakthrough in the theory of prime numbers. At least that's the preliminary assessment of experts who are looking at their complicated 50-page proof., agrees. "It's just amazing," said Ronald Graham, a combinatorialist at UC San Diego. "It's such a big jump from what came before."
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/304/5674/1095