A Sampling of Clips for 
November 15, 2005

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Tutoring Programs for
Preschoolers Growing in Popularity
Newsday, Nov. 13 -- While some educators say no evidence exists to show preschool tutoring has long-term benefits for children without learning disabilities, other educators, and parents, say the programs give children confidence and important building blocks for school. (Quote by Gedeon Deak, an associate professor of cognitive science at UCSD.) More

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Attacks Increase On
Border Patrol Near Mexico
Los Angeles Times, Nov. 14 -- Assaults against U.S. Border Patrol agents nearly doubled along the Mexican border over the past year as patrols cracking down on drug trafficking and migrant smuggling encountered increasing resistance - including the use of rocks, Molotov cocktails and gunfire. (Quote by Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UCSD.)

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Boston Globe, Nov. 13 
Daily Journal Venezuela, Nov. 14 

Inde-fence-ible?
Los Angeles Times, Nov. 13 -- While President Bush was in Latin America earlier this month, cajoling governments to support a free-trade zone, some members of his party back home were pushing for a fence from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico to keep Latin Americans out of the United States. Editorial by Wayne Cornelius, professor of political science at UCSD. More

Supercomputing now Indispensable
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 12 -- Twenty years ago this Monday, the San Diego Supercomputer Center began using what was then the world's most powerful computer. Now, its data-crunching successors worldwide are indispensable to science, engineering, business, even the war on terrorism. More

Teens Get Feet Wet at Scripps
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 13 -- Whether they were learning about coral reef ecology or collecting phytoplankton samples from the water underneath Scripps Pier, gifted teens and their families were given a rare glimpse inside the Scripps Institution of Oceanography yesterday. More

Taking Stock of how HIV Damages Brain
Los Angeles Times, Nov. 13 -- Neurologists who study AIDS have watched, waited and worried for nearly a decade about the long-term effect of HIV on the brain. They've known that the drug cocktails that so effectively extend lives don't protect the brain very well from the virus. Now they have their first actual look at the destruction HIV causes in living brains. (Quote by Dr. Igor Grant, director of the neurobehavioral research center at UCSD.) More

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Sun-Sentinel, Fla, Nov. 13 Free Mansions for People of Means
San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 14--(Mentions UCSD.) THe University of California spends about $1 Million a year to maintain spacious homes for UC President Dynes and the 10 campus chancellors. More

Free Mansions for People of Means
San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 14--(Mentions UCSD.) THe University of California spends about $1 Million a year to maintain spacious homes for UC President Dynes and the 10 campus chancellors. More

Before you Pop On Over the Border
Los Angeles Times, Nov. 13 -- We Angelenos can skip across the border to Mexico almost as easily as we can drive from L.A. to Orange County. But even though Mexico is our next-door playground, we have plenty of health hazards to consider when traveling there. (Quote by Dr. Joshua Fierer, an infectious disease specialist at UCSD.) More

To Detect Explosives
and Disease, Look for the Invisible Light
North County Times, Nov. 14 -- Daylight Solutions, a start-up company not even a year old, is addressing some of the most urgent and vexing problems of the 21st century ---- explosives hidden by terrorists and diseases ---- with beams of invisible light. (Mentions UCSD.) More

Pediatrician Combines Medicine
with Workouts to Beat Obesity
Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX), Nov. 13 -- In August, Fisher turned her conventional doctor's office into a kid-friendly gym filled with weights and workout gear. With help from her husband, Brian, a personal trainer, Fisher developed a program that follows children closely as they change their eating and exercising habits. (Quote by Howard Taras, a UCSD professor who serves on the American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Obesity.) More

Absentee Voting Cited as Success in Mexico
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 13 -- The most important accomplishment of Mexico's Congress has been its decision to allow absentee voting in next year's presidential election, a congressional leader said at an appearance in San Diego last week. Manlio Fabio Beltrones, a top coordinator in Congress for the former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, spoke about governance in Mexico on Thursday at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the UCSD. More

Freeing Spirit
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 13 -- After teaching thousands of students and writing dozens of works, composer and former UCSD music professor Will Ogdon is savoring life at a slower tempo. More

Writer has Message, now
a Prize UCSD Student Hopes to
Change how Some View Disabled People
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 13 -- Michael Carnick's screenplay was inspired by all the people who have avoided looking him in the eye because he is disabled. And so the UCSD student channeled his feelings into "Who's Driving Doug," a feature-length screenplay that won a competition with a $25,000 prize. More than 100 University of California students entered the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards, which for 50 years has been encouraging UC students to pursue screenwriting careers. More

PWI Celebrates 20 Years of Assistance
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 12 -- In 1985, Partnerships With Industry began providing job training, placement and support services for adults with developmental disabilities in North County. It was a bold departure from the sheltered workshop kind of environment typical of the times. This month, the nonprofit agency celebrates its 20th anniversary. (Mentions UCSD.) More

Wireless Group Celebrates 10th Anniversary
San Diego Daily Transcript, Nov. 11 -- The Center for Wireless Communications at UCSD will celebrate the center's 10th anniversary with a symposium. More

Student-Run TV Station is Kept Off Air
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 11 -- UCSD administrators have kept a student-run television station off the air for more than a week. Administrators say their actions were triggered by a confrontation that took place Nov. 3 at the station, as student council members argued with station workers over whether live or unscreened material could be broadcast. More