A Sampling of Clips for 
May 26, 2004

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Chimp Chromosome Creates Puzzles
Nature, May 26 -- What is the difference between a chimp and a human? There could be a lot more to the answer than scientists thought, according to the first accurate DNA sequence of a chimp chromosome. (Quote by Ajit Varki, a molecular biologist at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.nature.com/nsu/040524/040524-8.html

Fuel Prices Cost Consumers at More Than Just the Pump
USA Today, May 26 -- Consumers feeling the pinch of $2-a-gallon gasoline
every time they fill up could also start seeing higher prices when they buy groceries, get a pizza delivered or catch a cab. (Quote by James Hamilton, an energy economist at the University of California at San Diego.)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-05-25-gas-inflation_x.htm

Same article appeared in:
Reno Gazette-Journal, May 26
http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2004/05/26/71610.php?sp1=rgj&sp2
=News&sp3=Local+News&sp5=RGJ.com&sp6=news&sp7=local_news

Water: Medium of life
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 26 -- If water flowed on Mars, life could have followed. Life needs liquid water. That might seem obvious, but a lot of biologists have given the topic a lot of thought. And NASA, in its search for life in the solar system, has spent hundreds of millions of dollars designing spacecraft with one mission in mind: follow the water. Jeffrey Bada, a researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is developing an instrument he hopes NASA will use to detect organic compounds on the sites where the Mars rover Opportunity discovered evidence of water once flowing on the planet. NASA is planning to return to Mars in 2009.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20040526-9999-lz1c26water.html

UCSD Cancels Campus Showing of Beheading Video
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 25 -- UC San Diego administrators made a last-minute decision Tuesday to cancel campus showings of the videotaped beheading of American civilian Nicholas Berg in Iraq. Ariel Mor, a 20-year-old UCSD political science sophomore, planned the event as "pro-American. He decided, however, for unknown reasons this morning not to show the video. A second party then decided to go ahead with the plan, but administrators
canceled the event because the group lacked the necessary school permit, the official said.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20040525-1319-beheading.html

Same article appeared in:
North County Times, May 25 http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/05/26/news/top_
stories/21_34_045_25_04.txt

KFMB.COM (Channel 8), May 26
http://www.kfmb.com/printstory.php?storyID=25624

Student: School 'Coerced' Him Into Canceling Beheading Video
NBC 4 (Los Angeles), May 26 --A University of California, San Diego
student said in remarks published Wednesday that school officials "basically coerced" him into canceling plans to show on campus the videotaped beheading of an American civilian in Iraq.
http://www.nbc4.tv/education/3348254/detail.html

Student Orientation: More Teenage Girls are Testing Gender Boundaries
Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.), May 26 -- As sexual standards and practices loosen -- with same-sex marriage in the headlines -- and as kids are exposed to a hyper-sexual culture at younger ages, experts suspect a new behavior among teenage girls may be developing. An increasing number of high school girls and coeds, they say, may be experimenting with same-sex relationships or acting suggestively with each other in a bid to attract the opposite sex. (Quote by psychiatrist Gabrielle Shapiro, an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of California-San Diego Medical Center.)
http://www.nj.com/living/ledger/index.ssf?/base/living-2/1085511000298870.xml

Oaxacan Gubernatorial Candidates to Visit Vista
North County Times, May 25 -- In the coming weeks, local immigrant communities will see an increasingly common site: Mexican politicians campaigning for various offices in Mexico. Candidates for the governor in Oaxaca are scheduled to make campaign stops in Vista as they stomp the state for support among immigrants. The visits are seen by many as evidence of the growing influence immigrant communities exert on Mexican politics. (Quote by Fernando Lozano, a visiting research fellow at UC San Diego, who
specializes on the flow of immigrants' money to Mexico.) http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/05/26/news/top
_stories/20_45_315_25_04.txt