A Sampling of Clips for 
November 15, 2005

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Microsoft Enters the
High-Performance Computing Fray
New York Times, Nov. 15-The recent plunging cost of computing power is both an opportunity and a challenge to Microsoft, which on Tuesday plans to unveil its first entry into the market for high-performance scientific and technical computing. (Refers to research led by Philip M. Papadopoulos, program director of grid and cluster computing at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.) More

Ancient Peruvians Went Out With a Bash
Washington Post, Nov. 15-The ancient Peruvian desert settlement known as Cerro Baul was torched and abandoned around A.D. 1000 after a spectacular feast and beer party, according to researchers at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. (Quote by UCSD archaeologist Paul Goldstein, who is excavating at Omo, a Tiwanaku site 12 miles from Cerro Baul.) More

The Politics of Climate Change
San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 15-Tonight at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, members of the Platinum Circle of the Independent Institute will have the privilege, at $10,000 per table, to hear a fiction writer talk about one of the pressing issues of our time: global warming. (Refers to research by Naomi Oreskes, a science historian at UCSD.) More

Prisons' Movie Studio Cost $500,000
San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 15-State prison officials, as they grappled last year with the largest deficit in the agency's history, allowed a private foundation that provides drug treatment to inmates to spend nearly $500,000 of taxpayer money to create a movie studio. (Mentions UCSD.) More

'Chasing' Votes Worked former Top Cop
Voice of San Diego, Nov. 15-When Jerry Sanders thanked his campaign staff and volunteers for bringing him a victory in the mayoral election last week, he probably should have thanked some other people: the anonymous people who helped spread the concept of absentee voting. (Quote by political science professor, Steve Erie from UCSD.) More