A Sampling of Clips for 
May 27, 2004

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Airing of Beheading Video Blocked
CNN News, May 27-A student has been blocked by his university from showing the beheading of an American civilian for a second time on closed-circuit campus television. Daniel Watts, a junior at the University of California, San Diego, aired the grisly murder of Nicholas Berg by Iraqis about two weeks ago without the knowledge of school administrators.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/West/05/27/beheading.college.ap

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NBC News, Los Angeles, May 27
http://www.nbc4.tv/education/3348254/detail.html

USA Today, May 27
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2004-05-27-berg-tv_x.htm

Newsday, May 27
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-beheading-college-tv,0,3749765.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

The Associated Press, May 27
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Boston Herald, May 27
http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=29605

City News Service, May 26
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San Diego Union-Tribune, May 27
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040527-9999-1m27tv.html

The Oil Price Spikes Give New Urgency to the Debate Over Their Consequences
New York Times, May 27-Gasoline prices surpassed $2 a gallon last week, up from $1.20 in early 2002. The run-up in oil prices has become a major issue in the presidential election, as well as a threat to the economy. The detrimental effect of oil price increases on economic growth was first emphasized by economists in a landmark study by James Hamilton, now of the University of California, San Diego.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/27/business/27scene.html

Treating Arthritis Ups Employment Prospects
Reuters, May 26-People with rheumatoid arthritis are liable to find daily tasks becoming more and more difficult, maybe to the point that they lose their jobs. But this can be averted if the condition is treated adequately, new research by the University of California, San Diego shows. (Quote by Arthur Kavanaugh M.D., a professor at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&story
ID=5265998&section=news

The Best of Summer
Los Angeles Times, May 27-This summer, San Diego is the place to go for a super-size theatre experience. The Old Globe, in San Diego's Balboa Park, is returning Shakespearean repertory to its summer lineup at the alfresco Lowell Davies Festival Theatre after a 20-year absence. "Continental Divide," will be playing at UCSD's La Jolla Playhouse, June 6 - Aug. 1.
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Turning Up the Hype
Washington Post, May 27-The potential summer blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow" is about the adventures of a little planet we call Earth that suddenly finds itself experiencing extreme meteorological distress due to humankind's prodigious discharge of greenhouse gases. Now a coalition of environmental organizations, Ben & Jerry's, serious scientists, Hollywood gadflies, a Kennedy, a Gore and several anti-Bush organizations has gotten together to promote the movie, ride its coattails and do some bashing of the administration's position on global warming. (Quote by Michael Molitor, a geochemist formerly at the University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59146-2004May26.html

Blood Clot in Lung Can Cause Pulmonary Hypertension
Forbes, May 27-An unexpectedly large number of patients who survive a blood clot in the lungs develop potentially dangerous high blood pressure in the pulmonary artery, Dutch researchers report. (Refers to research conducted at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.forbes.com/health/feeds/hscout/2004/05/26/hscout519188.html

Above Clouds, in the Depths, Chipping Away at Unknowns of Climate Change
Associated Press, May 26-Rising temperatures probably stem from man's "greenhouse" emissions. But clearing away unknowns remains a challenge. This is the second in a three-part series on the impact, science and politics of climate change. (Quote by V. Ramanathan of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego.)
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Prostate Cancer Possible Even with a Low PSA
KFMB News, May 26-Men over 40 have always been advised to get regular prostate cancer screenings and exams. In the past, if their PSA level was low, doctors also assumed that their risk for prostate cancer was low. But a new study reveals a different perspective. The Moores UCSD Cancer Center sheds some light on this subject. (Quote by Fred Millard M.D., associate clinical professor at the Moores UCSD Cancer Center.)
http://www.kfmb.com/healthcast/details.php?storyID=25676

Ancient Critters' Dinner Menu: Glass
Christian Science Monitor, May 27-When paleontologists realized that Earth's earliest microbes lacked organic food, they said, "Let them eat rock." And that, apparently, is what they did to survive some 3.5 billion years ago, according to a Norwegian-led research team. Scientists from the University of Bergen, and colleagues in Canada, South Africa, and the United States are studying ancient lava in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, several hundred miles east of Johannesburg in South Africa. (Quote by team member Hubert Staudigel at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego.)
http://search.csmonitor.com/search_content/0527/p17s01-stss.html

El Cajon Targets Underage Tobacco Sales
San Diego Union-Tribune, Editorial, May 27-They may not like it, but El Cajon merchants are preparing to pay even more for selling their tobacco products. On June 8, the City Council is poised to impose a license fee on retailers who sell smokes. The move, which is designed to combat underage smoking, would make El Cajon the only municipality in the county to levy such a fee. (Quote by John Pierce M.D., who heads the cancer prevention program at UCSD's Cancer Center.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040527/news_lz2ed27cajon.html