A Sampling of Clips for
November 05, 2003
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Findings
Washington Post, Nov. 5-New foods,
useful chemicals and drugs, and untapped sources of energy may
lie beneath the least explored place on Earth: the oceans. Seeking
out those resources was recommended yesterday in a report by
the National Research Council. John Orcutt,
deputy director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
and chairman of the committee that prepared the report.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1139-2003Nov4.html
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CBS
News, Nov. 4
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/04/tech/main581859.shtml
Associated Press,
Nov. 4
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Newsday,
Nov. 4
http://www.newsday.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-ocean-exploration,0,6300040.story?coll=sns-ap-science-headlines
San Diego Union-Tribune,
Nov. 4
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20031103-2252-oceanexploration.html
The Gazette (Montreal,
Quebec), Nov. 5
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Sarasota Herald Tribune,
Nov. 4
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031104/APN/311040776
The Ledger (Florida),
Nov. 4
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031104/APA/311040776
In the
Twilight Zone of Sound
Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov.
7-Diana Deutsch, a psychology professor at
the University of California at San Diego who
studies "phantom words" and other tricks our minds
play with sound, has produced two compact discs that showcase
her research of this phenomenon. The illusions range from the
beguilingly simple to, as she says, "true weirdness, the
twilight zone."
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v50/i11/11a05601.htm
Mexican
fires 'controlled'
The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec), Nov.
5-Among the many cultural differences along the U.S.-Mexico
border is a widely differing approach to the task of fighting
brush fires. Mexican governments - partially because of tight
budgets - do not attempt the quick suppression of brush fires
that property owners and politicians in the United States demand
of their firefighters. Richard Carson, a professor
of economics at the University of California, San Diego,
is one academic who favors the Mexican approach.
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