A Sampling of Clips for 
November 06, 2003

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National Academy Calls for Sea Change in Ocean Efforts
Nature, Nov. 6-The United States isn't doing enough to explore the oceans, and needs to develop an inter-agency approach to such exploration, says a committee of the National Academy of Sciences. The only way to achieve this is to make funds available specifically for exploring new areas such as the Southern and Arctic oceans, says John Orcutt, a marine geophysicist who serves as deputy director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v426/n6962/full/426006b_fs.html

What's Mine is Yours
The Scientist, Nov. 6-In niches such as deep-sea hydrothermal vents and hydrocarbon seeps, entire food chains rely on the ability of specific bacteria to synthesize carbohydrates from inorganic raw materials-without the light energy that facilitates photosynthesis. These chemoautotrophic bacteria secure the necessary energy by oxidizing reduced substrates-usually sulphide or methane-and pass the carbohydrates to their invertebrate hosts. In the November 6 Nature, Suzanne Dufour and Horst Felbeck from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography show that bivalve mollusks go to great lengths to fulfill their partners' requirements for sulphide.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20031106/01/

Stensrud Family Donates $5 Million to New School of Management at UCSD
La Jolla Light, Oct. 30-The coffers at UCSD have grown even larger with a generous gift of $5 million from Carol and William Stensrud. The donation will go towards the recently established School of Management to launch programs, move into facilities and recruit faculty. (Quote by Robert Sullivan, Dean of the School of Management at UCSD.)
http://www.lajollalight.com/2003/10/30/n031030stensrud_donates.html

Dean Decision May Affect Public Financing
Newsday, Nov. 6-If Democrat Howard Dean joins President Bush and skips presidential public financing, Congress may be moved to grapple with what to do with the Watergate-era reform meant to rid the system of big money. The system, which gives presidential campaigns an infusion of government money while limiting their spending, was supposed to reduce the influence of large donors and the amount of time candidates spend raising money. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-presidential-money,0,7725708.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

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Associated Press, Nov. 6
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Couture Chemistry
Washington Times, Nov. 6-Most consumers probably aren't aware of the intense scientific research necessary to create some of their favorite scents. The pleasant smells of perfumes lining department-store shelves are born in chemical laboratories. (Quote by Craig Warren, visiting scholar in the chemo-sensory perception laboratory at the University of California at San Diego.)
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20031105-104009-2983r.htm

The San Diego Wildfires
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Nov. 6-On Sunday, Oct. 26, a brush fire under a hot, dry, high wind traveled 20 miles unopposed across a U.S. national forest, an Indian reservation and a U.S. military base to vaporize whole streets in one of the nation's largest cities. Although local firefighters managed to stop a fire that came perilously close to the destruction caused by the legendary Chicago fire of 1871, letting the fire reach San Diego represents a major failure of current federal policy toward wildfires in the semi-arid West. (Article written by Richard Carson, a professor of environmental economics and chairman of the Department of Economics at the University of California San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/thu/opinion/news_1e6carson.html

Conference Could Open Many Doors
The Eagle, Nov. 5-A Sino-American conference that gets under way Wednesday morning on the Texas A&M campus will bring together high-ranking leaders from both nations for four days of talks that will focus on economic issues and threats posed by global terrorism and North Korea's development of weapons of mass destruction. (Quote by Susan Shirk, professor of international relations at the University of California at San Diego.)
http://www.theeagle.com/aandmnews/110503conference.htm