A Sampling of Clips for
November 19, 2003
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Anti-Smoking
Program Sees Success
Los Angeles Times, Nov. 19-In 17 states
where the federal government spent $128 million to discourage
tobacco use, smoking dropped by about 3 percentage points in
eight years, over half a point more than in other states. Translating
the results to the entire nation, the American Stop Smoking
Intervention Study, or ASSIST, would have cut the number of
smokers by about 278,700. Elizabeth A. Gilpin, a UC
San Diego researcher is coauthor of the study which
will appear today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-smoke19nov19,1,5801964.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
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articles appeared in:
ABCNews, Nov. 18
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Living/ap20031119_790.html#
CBSNEWS.com,
Nov. 18
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/18/health/main584341.shtml
CNN.com,
Nov. 19
http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/11/19/smoking.study.ap
Associated Press, Nov.
19
More see attached file...Study Finds
USA Today,
Nov. 19
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2003-11-19-smoking-study_x.htm
Newsday,
Nov. 19
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-smoking-study,0,4822639.story
NBCSandiego.com, Nov. 18
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/health/2647372/detail.html
San Mateo County Times,
Nov. 19
http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/Stories/0,1413,87~11268~1776477,00.html#
Study Links UC Entry, Social Class
Los Angeles Times, Nov. 19-Social
class has had more effect on whether a student will attend the
University of California system than any other factor, including
race, according to a new study of California high schools by
UC Berkeley sociologists. Fewer than one out of 200 students
who were admitted to the UC system in 1999 were from schools
that had low-income and heavily minority student bodies. Barbara
Sawrey, a UC San Diego professor who
heads the UC Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools,
said UC is attempting to be more accessible to low-income students,
especially those from high schools that send few students to
the system.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-feeder19nov19,1,156380.story
U.S.-Mexico
Migrant Deal Never a Possibility, Ex-Envoy Says
Los Angeles Times, Nov. 19-An ambitious
agreement pushed by President Bush and Mexican President Vicente
Fox to legalize the status of illegal immigrants was doomed
from the start, says a former U.S. ambassador to Mexico. Jeffrey
Davidow, who is president of the Institute of the Americas
at UC San Diego and has written a controversial
book spanning his stint in Mexico from 1998 to 2002, says the
plan to legalize the status of millions of Mexican immigrants
raised expectations to impossible levels.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-davidow19nov19,1,1737605.story
Experimental
Arthritis Drug Shows Promise
Newsday, Nov. 18-An experimental new
drug designed to shut down the body's misguided assault on its
own joints is showing promise against rheumatoid arthritis,
relieving its crippling effects with few if any side effects.
The drug, still in testing, neutralizes the immune system T
cells that help direct the assault. (Quote by Gary Firestein,
chief of rheumatology, allergy and immunology at the University
of California at San Diego and chairman of the Food
and Drug Administration's arthritis advisory committee.)
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-dsdrug3547865nov18,0,991052.story
Salk Institute
Gets $30M, its Largest Donation Ever
North County Times, Nov. 18-An anonymous
donor has given $30 million to the Salk Institute for Biological
Studies, the institute announced Tuesday. It is the largest
single gift in the institute's 43-year history, and one of the
largest ever to a local biomedical research institution. Other
recent large gifts to science institutions have included the
$110 million to UCSD's engineering school by
Irwin and Joan Jacobs, and the $20 million for a new cancer
center at UCSD by John and Rebecca Moores.
(Quote by Abi Barrow, managing director of
Von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement
at UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering.)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2003/11/18/business/news/11_18_0319_20_09.txt
Coral Reef
Research Vessel Returns Home
North County Times, Nov. 19-The Planetary
Coral Reef Foundation's RV Heraclitus -- the only research vessel
continually at sea monitoring coral reefs globally -- was escorted
into the Marina del Rey harbor today by the tall ships Exy and
Irving Johnson. Next the PCRF is pioneering a Coral Reef Satellite
Mission to monitor the world's coral reefs using satellite imagery,
and to create the first comprehensive baseline map of living
coral reefs. PCRF has assembled an interdisciplinary team of
institutions and scientists to carry out the project, including
the College of Charleston, MIT, Scripps Institution
of Oceanography and USC.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2003/11/19/special_reports/
science_technology/11_18_0320_47_06.txt
Statistical
Timing Steps into Spotlight at ICCAD
Electronic Engineering Times, Nov.
17-Statistical static-timing analysis stood out at last week's
International Conference on Computer Aided Design, as experts
warned that the days of timing analysis based on nominal delay
values were drawing to a close. Puneet Gupta, a graduate student
at the University of California, San Diego,
stated the problem concisely through two full paper sessions
that provided a progress report on academe's struggle with what
remains, in the eyes of many, an unsolved problem.
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20031117S0016
