A Sampling of Clips for May 9^th, 2008

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Head Trauma getting Attention
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 9 -- Military officials are rolling out programs in the county and nationwide to take on traumatic brain injuries, a signature casualty of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. In San Diego, Navy and Veterans Affairs officials have partnered with UCSD to improve diagnosis of traumatic brain injuries. More

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Multiple Causes but No Easy Solutions
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, May 9 – According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, food prices worldwide have risen 80 percent since 2005. The era of abundant cheap food seems to be coming to an end and malnutrition, which had been declining slowly for the past 50 years thanks to the Green Revolution, is on the rise again. (Written by Marteeen Chrispeels, a professor in the Division of Biological Sciences at UCSD and director of its Center for Molecular Agriculture) More

Son Seeks Father's San Diego-Area Congressional Seat
San Francisco Chronicle, May 9 -- If California's congressional districts are drawn to protect incumbents, Republican Duncan D. Hunter might be the next best thing: the incumbent's son and namesake. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Gary Jacobson) More

The Devil’s Breath Profiles
Undocumented Migrants Who Died in the Harris Fire
La Prensa, May 9 -- It was exactly the devil’s breath that ravished thru San Diego County just last October, taking the lives of 14 people, most of them Mexican immigrants who where trying to cross the border during the emergency and were devoured by the flames. The stories of such men and women have yet to be told, until now, that a half-hour news special by UCSD-TV profiles four of the seven undocumented migrants who died in the Harris Fire, on October 21, 2007. More