A Sampling of Clips for 
May 27, 2005

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Deadlines, Transitions Heat Up Emotions
ABC News, May 26-Overworked, on-the-go, stressed Americans, you're not alone: A new study finds that time constraints and impending deadlines encourage emotional highs and lows. (Quote by study author Ursina Teuscher, a psychologist and postdoctoral researcher in the cognitive science department at UCSD.) More

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Stroke Patients Shed Light On Metaphors
Nature, May 23-A UCSD team led by Vilayanur Ramachandranh has found the key part of the brain that decodes figurative speech. More

UCSD Researcher Uses Kool-Aid To Prove Theory
Channel 10, May 26-A UCSD researcher says subliminal images can influence our emotions and change the way we behave. He used happy and angry faces and kool-aid to reach this finding. More

More Lawsuits Filed by RIAA Against UC Students
KFMB, May 26-The music industry filed a second wave of lawsuits Thursday against users of a university network who allegedly swapped copyrighted songs, with defendants including students at UCSD, UCLA and USC. More

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San Diego Union-Tribune, May 27

UC Regents Approve Bidding on Los Alamos Contract
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 26- The race to run the Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab is on. Regents of the University of California voted 11-1 Thursday to submit a bid to keep running the New Mexico lab they've managed since it was formed to work on the atomic bomb in World War II. More

UC Researchers Strike for Better Pay
Los Angeles Times, May 27-University of California research and technical workers walked off their jobs Thursday in a one-day strike to demand better pay and stem what they say is high turnover. More

Graduation, Latino Style
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 27-Emotions ran high at intimate Latino commencement celebrations at colleges and universities this graduation season. The Latino events - also held at California State University, San Marcos, for about a dozen years, San Diego State University for seven years and UCSD for more than two decades - are meant to complement, not replace, the big commencement. More

University of California Hikes Fees for Professional Students
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 26-Student fees are likely to increase again throughout the University of California system, this time for professional school students who will be paying up to 7 percent more for their degrees. More

Qualcomm's Irwin Jacobs Inducted into Connect Hall of Fame
North County Times, May 27-Qualcomm Inc. founder Irwin Mark Jacobs was inducted Thursday as the first member of the Entrepreneur Technology Hall of Fame, established by the technology business organization Connect. More