A Sampling of Clips for 
November 17, 2005

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A Cautionary Picture
of Water Supplies as Earth Warms
USA Today, Nov. 16-Mountain snows and alpine glaciers represent key reservoirs of fresh water for some 1.6 billion people worldwide. In 50 years, however, a warming planet is likely to disrupt many of these sources, leaving millions of people scrambling for additional supplies, according to scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. More

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Multiple System Atrophy Models Developed
UPI, Nov. 16-UCSD scientists have produced transgenic mouse models of multiple system atrophy, a progressive, fatal neurological disorder. More

Taiwan Can Use
Communications to Fight Bird Flu
China Post, Nov. 17-Bryan Liang, co-director of the Center for Patient Safety at UCSD says that Taiwan can better utilize its world-leading communications infrastructure in fighting the bird flu by engaging in more international cooperation. More

Entrepreneurial Excellence Centre Launched
Khaleej Times, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 17-The Centre for Entrepreneurial Excellence was launched in the Middle East yesterday as around 110 young entrepreneurs from 16 countries took part in the Middle East Entrepreneur Training. (Mentions Rady School of Management at UCSD.) More

China's Youth Dance Reluctantly to U.S. Beat
Boston Globe, Nov. 17-Chinese, especially the young and upwardly mobile, flock to KFC and McDonald's, snap up China-made GM Buicks, are transfixed by U.S. professional basketball and are a top source of foreign students in the United States. But many Chinese also resent the United States for its protection of Taiwan -- a self-governed island China claims as its own -- and countless diplomatic spats over everything from trade to spying and religious freedom. (Quote by Susan Shirk, a professor at UCSD.) More

Thin Green Line is Bad Science
San Francisco Chronicle, Editorial, Nov. 17-There is a myth in the American media. It goes like this: The good scientists agree that global warming is human induced and would be addressed if America ratified the Kyoto global warming pact, while bad heretical scientists question climate models that predict Armageddon because they are venal and corrupted by oil money. (Refers to research by Naomi Oreskes, a science historian at UCSD.) More

Fees Slated to Go
up at UC for Fifth Straight Year
San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 17-University of California regents voted to raise fees for the fifth straight year, although they promised to roll back the hikes if the Legislature comes through with more money. (Mentions UCSD.) More

Ericsson to Underwrite UCSD Chair
San Diego Daily Transcript, Nov. 16-Telecommunications firm Ericsson will fund an endowed chair in wireless communications at UCSD, the school announced Wednesday. More

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Propaganda Machine?
San Diego City Beat, Nov. 16-A local university professor has charged the San Diego Daily Transcript with "yellow journalism," and said he is planning to organize a boycott of the daily business newspaper. UCSD political science professor Steve Erie, a regularly quoted political pundit in the national and local media, told CityBeat he is "appalled" by the Transcript's coverage of San Diego's recent mayoral election. More

Immigration Detention:
A Fiscal and Humanitarian Crisis
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Nov. 17-No more "catch and release," declared President Bush. In his Oct. 22 radio address, the president emphasized increasing the capacity of detention centers as a critical step in preventing illegal immigration. "When there's no bed available, non-Mexicans who are caught entering our country illegally are given a slip that tells them to come back for a court appearance," he explained. "Most never show up." (Article written by Everard Meade, an assistant professor in the History Department at UCSD.) More