A Sampling of Clips for May 28^th, 2008

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China Just Might Surprise the U.S. on Climate Change
San Francisco Chronicle, Opinion, May 28 -- The next American administration should be prepared for a China that is getting serious about the climate change issue for its own domestic reasons. Chinese experts understand that global warming will affect their country much more severely than North America. (Written by Tony Haymet and Susan Shirk, professors of oceanography and chemistry, and China and Pacific relations, respectively, at UCSD. Haymet is director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Shirk is director of the UC systemwide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and author of "China: Fragile Superpower”) More

Police ID Calif. Mansion Bodies
CBS News, May 27 -- The decomposed bodies found last weekend in an oceanside home were identified Tuesday as an engineer who testified at trials about accident reconstruction and four of his relatives, including two recent UCSD graduates. More

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At Spoleto Festival, Revisiting a Fateful Chapter in Slavery
The New York Times, May 24 -- Not so often do new American operas find life after birth. But Anthony Davis’s “Amistad,” a historically inspired exploration of slavery and freedom, has come back to the stage 11 years after its debut at the Chicago Lyric Opera, and in a deeply resonant setting. Davis is a UCSD music professor. More

Students Seek Best Prescription for Stress
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 28 -- When Blanca Cervantes enrolled at UCSD's medical school in 2005, she didn't expect offerings such as a massage clinic during finals week or organized soccer games. More

A UCSD Professor Seeks the Cause of Autism
KPBS, May 27 -- While autism has been a hard nut to crack, some studies have provided insight into what might cause the disease. Eric Courchesne, a medical professor at UCSD, is one of the leading researchers into autism and its causes. Several years ago, he observed that the brains of autistic children are smaller than normal at birth, then grow at a very rapid rate during the first couple of years of life. More

Food Price Inflation is Just the Beginning
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 28 -- Soaring food prices are very likely to become even more unstable because of global warming's effect on farming, federal officials said yesterday. (Quotes Julian Schroeder, a biologist at UCSD) More

Home-Price Index Continues Free Fall
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 28 -- An important home-price indicator was down a record 14.1 percent in March compared with a year earlier in metro areas around the country and down 20.5 percent in San Diego, Standard & Poor's reported yesterday. (Quotes UCSD economist James Hamilton) More

Golf Tourists, Traffic Expected At Torrey Pines
NBC San Diego, May 27 -- The U.S. Open, one of professional golf's most high-profile majors, gets under way at Torrey Pines in 13 days. While it means a lot of good things for the city of San Diego, for students at UCSD, it means parking trouble and traffic concerns. More

UC Looks to Public Employment Relations Board to Avert Strike
East Bay Business Times, May 28 -- University of California officials are looking to a quasi-judicial state agency, the Public Employment Relations Board, for help in averting a strike June 4-5 that could involve as many as 20,000 workers at university campuses and medical centers statewide. (Mentions UCSD) More

Donation Preceded Horn's Sprawling Housing Proposal
North County Times, May 24 -- A North County Times investigation has found that county Supervisor Bill Horn's controversial August 2006 proposal for a road project and zoning change — which would add homes for 9,000 people to this rural town of 17,000 — came just months after a key campaign contribution was made by Randy Goodson, a prominent developer who had begun buying up property in the area affected by Horn's proposal. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Steve Erie) More