A Sampling of Clips for 
May 22 - 24, 2004

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Climate Change Rises on Global Agenda
USA Today, May 22- The "greenhouse effect," climate change, has languished on the world's agenda since the 1970s, a seemingly distant threat. But year by year, inch by inch, it is rising to the top - as ocean islets flood, glaciers retreat, Arctic permafrost melts, and leading voices raise new alarms. (Quote by Walter Munk, professor emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2004-05-22-climate-change_x.htm

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Los Angeles Times, May 22
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-climate-challenge-i,1,2137781.story?coll=sns-ap-science-headlines

Chicago Sun-Times, May 23
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-clim23.html

Monterey Herald, May 22
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/8733394.htm

Associated Press, May 23
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Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, May 24
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/living/8745765.htm

Ottawa Citizen, May 23
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/features/
onlineextras/story.html?id=5a9c1fd6-980d-408c-8d35-2ffebdb2d0f1

The Olympian, May 23
http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20040523/topstories/56871.shtml

Indiana Gazette, May 23
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1078&dept_id=
151021&newsid=11775698&PAG=461&rfi=9

Climate for Catastrophe?
Newsday, May 23-Violent storms figure prominently in the ravages of abrupt climate change in the upcoming disaster flick, "The Day After Tomorrow" - albeit super-sized by Hollywood. In the simplified Hollywood version of events, a paleoclimatologist attempts to convince the government that a much more sudden catastrophe is bearing down upon them. The character is based in part on Jeffrey Severinghaus, a professor of geosciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. (Quote by Jeff Severinghas, professor of geosciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsend23q3815742may23,0,6378765.story

Laying Siege to the Grid
New Scientist, May 22-The world's most powerful supercomputer networks are under attack. But given the enormous technical expertise this requires, why are the hackers bothering? Beyond shutting down the machines or stealing or deleting data, one likely malicious use of supercomputer power is to crack passwords. Admittedly modern passwords are hard to crack, but older ones have proved fallible. Last year, Tom Perrine and Devin Kowatch at the San Diego Supercomputer Center created a system called TeraCrack to show that password systems used in many academic networks can be cracked on a single 1.5GHz desktop computer with 2.26 terabytes of hard disk space in 60 days. Then, dramatically, they showed that the time could be slashed to just 80 minutes, using their Blue Horizon supercomputer.
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Cicadas Have No Monopoly On Big Noise
The Washington Post, May 23-Noise, according to the Census Bureau, is Americans' No. 1 complaint about our neighbors. And noise, it turns out, is the top reason Americans give for wanting to move. Curiously, anti-noise activists seem nowadays to restrict themselves to campaigning against man-made noise, but human beings also recoil against some natural sounds. (Quote by Hillel Schwartz, a scholar from the University of California at San Diego.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48684-2004May22.html

A Father's Shock Legacy
New Scientist, May 22-A man who suffers from muscle weakness has dealt a powerful blow to two long-held dogmas in human genetics. Doctors found that this man's muscles tire easily because they contain mutant mitochondria, the energy-producing structures inside cells. What astonished them, however, is that most of his muscle mitochondria come from his father, shattering the notion that mitochondria are always inherited from the mother. (Quote by Christopher Wills, a professor at the University of California, San Diego who studies human evolution.)
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Five Questions: Fran Berman
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 24- Q & A with Fran Berman, director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/personaltech/20040524-9999-mz1b24five.html

Nation's Political Divide Widens
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 23- The U.S. electorate was so deadlocked four years ago that it took six rancorous weeks to decide the outcome of the presidential election, causing roughly half the country to question the legitimacy of the Bush presidency. Yet nine months later, the nation rallied behind President Bush in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Now, with a presidential general election campaign of unprecedented length and intense negativity well under way, all indications are that the nation is once again split down the middle. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20040523-9999-1n23polarize.html

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Copley News Service, May 23
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Study Details Sleep Apnea Losses
Copley News Service, May 24-If physicians more aggressively diagnosed a common breathing disorder called sleep apnea, they could prevent 567,000 vehicle crashes that cause 980 deaths a year and save $11.1 billion in related costs. That's according to a new study by researchers from the University of California San Diego who calculated how much suffering, loss and death from vehicle collisions could be avoided if patients received treatment to get a full night's rest. (Quote by Alex Sassani, M.D. of UCSD)
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