A Sampling of Clips for 
May 25, 2005

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Self-Cleaning Air
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 25-Naturally occurring chemicals in the atmosphere may be removing smog and other damaging hydrocarbons at a faster rate than once believed, chemists at UCSD and Purdue University have discovered. More

CVS Takes Step to Keep Fake Drugs Off Shelves
Boston Globe, May 25-CVS Corp. said yesterday it would stop buying drugs from wholesalers that use middlemen in an effort to crack down on counterfeits infecting the drug supply. (Quote by Bryan Liang, executive director of the San Diego Center for Patient Safety at the UCSD School of Medicine.) More

UC Regents to Consider Fee Increases for Fall
San Francisco Chronicle, May 25-About 10,000 graduate students attending University of California professional schools could get an unexpected increase in their tuition fees this September under a proposal the Board of Regents will consider Thursday. More

UCSD Faculty Puts off Vote on Sports Scholarships
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 25-After a testy debate over a proposal to create athletic scholarships at UCSD, a faculty group decided yesterday to postpone its vote until the fall. More

Scientists Discover Underwater Volcano
PhysOrg.com, May 26-University of Oregon biologists on the first-ever manned submersible expedition to a newly discovered undersea volcano near Samoa report that warm water emanating from the volcano's summit supports a remarkable eel population. (Refers to research by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

The Inverse Doppler Effect: ECE
Researchers Add to the Bylaws of Physics
Innovations Report, May 25-What if the speed of light is a constant only most of the time? What if gravity sometimes pushed instead of pulled? Scientists are increasingly asking what would seem like far-out questions regarding the laws and rules of physics after discovering conditions and materials where the rules don't quite apply. (Refers to research by UCSD.) More

UC Faces Big Decision on
Los Alamos Management Contract
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 25- University of California regents face a big decision: Compete for the management contract of the Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab or walk away from the atomic birthplace it has managed since World War II. More

Questions Answered
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 25-Q & A column by Sherry Seethaler, a UCSD science writer and educator who answers science questions submitted by San Diego Union-Tribune readers. More