A Sampling of Clips for 
May 28, 2004

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A Clearer Look at Asian Pollution
Science Magazine, May 28-Veerabhadran Ramanathan, an Indian-born atmospheric scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, has helped bring to the fore a research area that wasn't on the U.S. radar screen. Last year Ramanathan launched a project to study the composition, regional patterns, and impact of aerosol clouds over southern and southeastern Asia. The idea grew out of a 1999 experiment that revealed a thick, brownish haze of air pollution covering an area from the Himalayas to the northern Indian Ocean.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/304/5675/1282b

Many Ignorant About New OTC Urinary Drug
Reuters, May 27-Many people buying a drug that is intended to relieve pain from urinary tract infections don't know what they're taking or why they should take it, new study findings show. A survey of people buying phenazopyridine (brand name, Pyridium) at drug stores revealed that only 29 percent knew that their pain was caused by an infection. Additional research is needed to determine whether consumers know as little about other formerly prescription-only drugs that are now available without a prescription, study author Chih-Wen Shi M.D. of the University of California in San Diego told Reuters Health.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=
5278431&section=news

Former N.C. State Dean Named School's Interim Chancellor
Channel 17, Raleigh, N.C., May 27-A former dean at North Carolina State University will become the school's interim chancellor. Robert A. Barnhardt, former dean of the College of Textiles, replaces departing Chancellor Marye Anne Fox. Fox is leaving to become chancellor of the University of California at San Diego.
http://www.nbc17.com/education/3353751/detail.html

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Associated Press, May 27
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Climate Flick Favors Fantasy Over Fact
CNN News, May 28-The much-hyped movie about climate change, "The Day after Tomorrow," which opens nationwide on May 28, depicts a series of catastrophes as the world plunges into a new ice age. In terms of accuracy, the movie is more science fiction than fact. Scientists have given it a drubbing for its inaccuracies, but the movie has also garnered cautious endorsements for raising the profile of an important issue. (Quote by Jeffrey Severinghaus M.D., a geoscience researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/05/27/weather.movie

Eleanor Antin's 'The Last Days of Pompeii' Conveys a Story - About Us
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, May 27-The end comes at the beginning of Eleanor Antin's exhibition - that is, the demise of the Roman city of Pompeii. The people in "The Last Day," the large-scale color photograph just inside the doors of UCSD's University Art Gallery, are coated in volcanic dust from Mount Vesuvius. One fellow, eyes shut, appears dead. A woman clutches a bundle, presumably cloaking a baby. Others are in various states of distress.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040527/news_lz1w27pompeii.html

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La Jolla Light, May 27
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/eclips/PDF/pompeii_lajollalight.pdf

DOE Funds Fusion Science Centers at University of Maryland/UCLA and University of Rochester
U.S. Newswire, May 27-The Department of Energy has selected the University of Maryland/University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Rochester to host two new Fusion Science Centers, Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, director of DOE's Office of Science announced today. The center will involve participation of MIT, General Atomics, University of California at San Diego, Ohio State University, UCLA and the University of Texas at Austin, and it will include collaboration with the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration programs at Rochester and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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First Day of Trading for Acadia Disappoints
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 28-Acadia Pharmaceuticals had a disappointing public debut yesterday as shares fell 4 percent in their first day of trading on the Nasdaq. Acadia was founded by Mark Brann, the company's president and chief scientific officer and an adjunct associate professor at the University of California, San Diego.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20040528-9999-1b28acadia.html

More and More Disturbing
ABC/CBN News, May 28-Two miles up, above black lava fields and a white blanket of clouds, a tower rising from this US government observatory gulps in some of the clear, crisp air and gets a taste of man's future on Earth. The tale told by the tower, atop a dormant Hawaiian volcano, can be read in the upward curve of a graph: Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which stood at 280 parts per million two centuries ago, has climbed to 379 parts per million since industrializing man began burning vast amounts of coal, oil and other fossil fuels. (Quote by V. Ramanathan of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego.)
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?section=Focus&oid=51953

Bill to Ban Smoking in Cars with Kids Fails
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 28-In a big victory for a resurgent tobacco lobby, the Assembly yesterday rejected legislation that would have made California the first state to outlaw smoking in vehicles when small children are inside. (Quote by David Burns M.D., a tobacco specialist at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20040528-9999-1n28smoke.html

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Copley News Service, May 27
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UCSD Reggae Festival Hopes to 'Heal the World; with Music and Dance
La Jolla Light, May 27-With its proximity to sun and ocean, La Jolla is a natural setting for the rhythmic beats of reggae music. This is a fact not lost on World Beat Center director Makeda Dread. The World Beat Center has teamed up with UCSD for a number of projects over the years.
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/eclips/PDF/reggae_lajollalight.pdf