A Sampling of Clips for 
May 29, 2003

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Lieberman Sees a High-Tech Answer to Growth
Los Angeles Times, May 29 – Campaigning at the University of California, San Diego on Wednesday, Democratic presidential hopeful Joseph I. Lieberman unveiled a plan to boost the economy by lifting the sagging high-tech industry through targeted tax cuts and increased federal spending on research and math and science programs.
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San Diego Union-Tribune, May 29
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/thu/news/news_1n29lieber.html

Bulletin’s Frontrunner, May 29
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Associated Press, May 29
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UCSD Creates Amazing New Material that Heals Itself
Advanced Materials and Composites News, May 19 – Researchers at the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have created, and now are testing, a brand new composite material that heals itself when cracked, becomes invisible to electromagnetic waves, and continually monitors its health. "This composite material contains a chemically manufactured polymer matrix that can re-polymerize its broken covalent bonds and heal at the molecular level," explains Sia Nemat-Nasser, principal investigator and Director of UCSD's Center for Excellence of Advanced Materials.
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Team helps restore Iraq's treasures
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 28 – Robert McCormick Adams, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, led a team of American scholars to form the American Coordinating Committee for Iraqi Cultural Heritage to help Iraq restore and re-establish its cultural treasures.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_mz1c28iraq.html

UC professors adopt policy against student-faculty dating
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 29 – Capping two years of debate, University of California professors overwhelmingly approved a policy yesterday that would bar romantic or sexual relationships between students and professors. The policy, criticized by some UC professors for being overly broad and vague, forbids professors from dating their students or students they "reasonably expect" to supervise in the future. Violators of the conduct code could be disciplined, ranging from a letter of censure to dismissal. (Quotes John C. Wheeler, a chemistry professor at the University of California, San Diego).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/thu/news/news_1n29prof.html

LSU professor, students study colossal asteroid strike
United Press International, May 29 – Gary Byerly, a professor of geology at LSU, is studying how one of the earliest known asteroid strikes affected a very young planet Earth. In the case Byerly is studying, the asteroid strike may have changed the course of how life evolved on the planet. Byerly, along with a fellow researcher, two students at LSU and researchers at Stanford, UCLA and the University of California, San Diego, say samples collected from rocks in South Africa and Australia show an asteroid about 12 miles wide struck the Earth about 3.5 billion years ago.
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San Diego Investigation Focuses on Three Councilmen
Los Angeles Times, May 29 – Three newly elected City Council members have had their offices raided by FBI agents, who carried off files to search for untoward financial links to strip club owners, dancers and associates. A federal grand jury is calling witnesses to determine whether the owners and operators of the strip club Cheetahs sought to improperly buy influence to get the council to loosen the ordinance that governs Cheetahs and other nude-entertainment establishments. (Quotes Steve Erie, professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego).
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Gates: Best of computing is yet to come
Daily Transcript, May 27 – University of California, San Diego Chancellor Robert Dynes offered Bill Gates no introduction before a crowd of students, professors and professionals at UCSD's Price Center on Tuesday. Gates, in an hour-long discussion that included a tightly controlled question-and-answer session, touched on new Microsoft innovations and the future of technology. (Mentions Larry Smarr, director of UCSD's California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology).
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UCSD postpones decision on SARS
La Jolla Light, May 15 – University of California, San Diego announced that it would not be taking any action regarding matriculating summer students from areas suffering outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, a pneumonia-like infection of the lungs also called SARS. The decision means that for now, UCSD will continue to accept applications from students living in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and China. (Quotes Pat JaCoby, UCSD external relations representative, Peter Thomas, director of international programs at the UCSD extension, and Steve Benedict, director of Environment, Health and Safety, and chair of the decision-making committee).
http://www.lajollalight.com/2003/05/15/n030515ucsd_sars.html

People column
San Diego Business Journal, Apr. 21 - 27 – Francine Berman has been appointed first holder of the Endowed Chair in High Performance Computing at the University of California, San Diego. Berman is a professor of computer science and engineering and directs the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the campus.
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Local Smallpox Vaccinations Set to Resume
San Diego Business Journal, Apr. 21 - 27 – Starting in May, the county Public Health Department will resume inoculating local hospital workers with the smallpox vaccine. The vaccinations were stopped in March following reports that three people died of heart attacks after being inoculated, and several others suffered heart problems. None of the cases were reported in San Diego County. (Quotes James Dunford, M.D., the medical director for San Diego’s emergency medical services and a University of California, San Diego emergency room physician).
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