A Sampling of Clips for 
May 30 ^th, 2007

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Warming? It's Already Burning
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Opinion, May 20 --A study, which focused on the western United States, found since 1986 a fourfold increase in major wildfires and a sixfold increase in the area of forest burned, compared to the period from 1970 to 1986. A similar increase in wildfires has been reported in Canada from 1920 to 1999, the study noted. "The increase in large wildfires appears to be another part of a chain of reactions to climate warming," said Dan Cayan, director of UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Climate Research Division and a study co-author. More

SDSU and UCSD Help Develop Military-Grade Portable Technology
KPBS, May 30 -- With roadside bombs so common in Iraq, the military is increasingly using technology to buffer troops from danger. A consortium of government agencies and universities, including UCSD and the SDSU Research Foundation, is helping to jumpstart new technologies to make our troops safer. More

Gates, Jobs to Talk Tech in Carlsbad
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 30 -- Two hyper-competitive icons of the computer world – Microsoft's Bill Gates and Apple's Steve Jobs – will share the stage today in Carlsbad. (Quotes Paul Kedrosky, executive director of the William J. von Liebig Center for the commercialization of technology at UCSD) More