A Sampling of Clips for
May 06, 2003
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Is
multiple chemical sensitivity a disorder?
Los Angeles Times, May 5 – People
who have multiple chemical sensitivity, or MCS, react to chemicals
found in a variety of common products -- anything from air freshener
to pesticides. "Their symptoms can run the gamut from nasal
congestion to nausea, irritability, fatigue, memory problems
and depression, and can range in severity from mild to incapacitating,"
says Dr. Fred Fung, a medical toxicologist
at University of California, San Diego. Although
some physicians do not classify MCS to be a true disease, others
believe that MCS is a unique medical disorder.
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Scientists
track movement inside
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 5
– Ingenious new devices able to see things faster and
smaller than ever are providing scientists with striking, 3-D
color movies of atoms, molecules and living cells in action.
The technology is like the familiar stop-action photography,
freezing a speeding bullet or baseball in flight, but billions
of times faster. Because the technology captures images in “attoseconds”,
a billionth of a billionth of a second, scientists can now see
atoms move. (Quotes Douglass Forbes, a biologist
at the University of California, San Diego).
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Fight Is on
to Save California’s Poison Control Centers
San
Diego Business Journal, week of 3/31 - 4/6/03
– Emergency rooms doctors, hospital advocates and a San
Diego assemblywoman are condemning proposed budget cuts that
would force the shutdown of the state’s four poison-control
centers, including one at University of California,
San Diego Medical Center. Dr. Richard Clark,
director of UCSD’s poison-control center,
said the program’s $8 million annual budget was cut in
half several weeks ago when the federal government cut a fund
for hospitals that treat large numbers of uninsured people.
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3 San Diego
scholars named fellows by arts-sciences group
San
Diego Union-Tribune, May 6 – Three scholars
from San Diego have been elected as fellows of the American
Academy of Arts & Sciences, the academy announced yesterday.
They are: economist Vincent P. Crawford of
University of California, San Diego; oceanographer
Lynne D. Talley of the Scripps Institution
of Oceanography; and neuroscientist Thomas D. Albright
of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. They were among
187 fellows and 29 foreign honorary members for the class of
2003.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/tue/metro/news_1m6honors.html
Similar article
appeared in:
SanDiegoChannel.com,
May 6
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/news/2183119/detail.html
SARS area students
banned
San
Diego Union-Tribune, May 6 – The University
of California, Berkeley will turn away new students from SARS-infected
China, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong this summer in what is
believed to be the first such move by a major U.S. university
to prevent the spread of the virus. Representatives from other
UC campuses, including University of California, San
Diego, and the chancellor's office discussed imposing
similar restrictions.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/tue/news/news_1n6sars.html
The
false clarity of racial categories
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 4 –
George Will writes on racial and ethnic classifications in his
column. (Mentions John D. Skrentny, a sociologist
at the University of California, San Diego
and author of The Public Interest).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/opinion/news_1e4will.html
Top
10 places where you can find an architect this week
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 6 –
Delegates to the American Institute of Architects national convention
are here in San Diego to learn about our region's architectural
pedigree. One of the sites they plan to visit includes the University
of California San Diego's Geisel Library.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/tue/currents/news_1c6tour.html
Forbidden
fruit
San Diego Union-Tribune, BOOK REVIEW,
May 4 – Michael A. Bernstein, history
and economics professor at the University of California,
San Diego, reviews the book, "Reefer Madness,
Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market"
written by Eric Schlosser. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/books/news_mz1v4fruit.html
