A Sampling of Clips for 
November 22 - 24, 2003

* UCSD faculty and staff may obtain a copy of an article by e-mailing the University Communications Office

New Robotic Gliders Can Soar Under Water
Washington Post, Nov. 23-A century after the Wright Brothers first took to the skies, the world of flight is pushing to new depths. Researchers are perfecting innovative gliders that can swoop and soar on journeys covering hundreds of miles and lasting for weeks - all deep beneath the ocean waves. (Quote by Scott Jenkins, an engineer and glider expert at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8221-2003Nov23.html

Same article appeared in:
Associated Press, Nov. 23
* No link available online.

Newsday, Nov. 23
http://www.newsday.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-ocean-gliders,0,7496955,print.story?coll=sns-ap-science-headlines

Los Angeles Times, Nov. 23
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-ocean-gliders,1,5840009.story?coll=sns-ap-science-headlines

Washington Times, Nov. 23
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20031124-120253-7182r.htm

ABC, Nov. 23
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20031123_561.html

Oakland Tribune, Nov. 24
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~1787274,00.html#

San Jose Mercury News, Nov. 24
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/7336832.htm

San Mateo County Times, Nov. 24
http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/Stories/0,1413,87~11268~1787274,00.html#

Real Rhapsody in Blue
Newsweek, Dec. 1-For most of the last century, scientists dismissed synesthesia as the product of overactive imaginations. But in recent years they've done an abrupt about-face, not only using modern technology to show that it's real but also studying it for clues to the brain's creativity. Scientists have devised ingenious tests to prove that synesthetes didn't simply invent their unusual associations. In 2001, Dr. V. S. Ramachandran and Edward Hubbard of the University of California, San Diego, conducted a study about this phenomenon.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/996965.asp#BODY

Wearable Computers To Liberate Academia
(The London) Times Higher Education Supplement, Nov. 21-A report commissioned by the Joint Information Systems Committee predicts that communications technology being developed could have a major impact on many areas of further and higher education. Pilot studies into the potential uses of the technology are being run in the UK and the US. One pilot scheme includes the testing of e-graffiti at the University of California, San Diego, which allows electronic messages to be left in a physical location for passers-by to read.
* No link available online.

Inside History's Biggest Wildfire Recovery Effort
Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 24-As a safety officer with a wildfire-recovery team, Randy Draeger spends his days making sure workers don't get struck by falling trees, bitten by pit bulls, or run over by bulldozers. Struggling against shortages of equipment and supplies, his colleagues are in a hurry, rushing to stabilize southern California's charred landscape before a date no one can name. (Quote by climatologist Larry Riddle of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego.)
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UCSD Study Broadens Understanding of HIV's Impact
North County Times, Nov. 21-A new study by UC San Diego researchers demonstrates a child's genetic factors are important in determining disease progression and cognitive impairment associated with HIV. The study, published this month in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, reports that monitoring of 1,049 HIV-infected children showed even slight genetic alterations can affect how the virus enters a cell or how the immune system responds to the virus. "Perhaps the greatest potential for our research findings is to help guide treatment for HIV-infected individuals," said Stephen Spector, who chairs UCSD's Division of Pediatric Diseases and is the study's senior author.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2003/11/22/
special_reports/science_technology/11_21_0317_05_41.txt

Regents Withhold Budget State's Budget Pain, New Governor Made Rite too Uncertain
San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 20-Regents of the University of California broke tradition Wednesday and withheld submitting their annual budget request to Sacramento because of uncertainty over the transition to a new governor and how he will deal with the state's budget crisis. Meanwhile, student protestors chanting in the hallway outside the meeting at UCLA grew so loud that new UC President Robert Dynes left the meeting to talk to them about their myriad concerns. It was the first time since the campus protests of the 1960s and early 1970s that anyone could remember a UC president spontaneously meeting with student protestors.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/11/20/BAGEQ368RH1.DTL

As Bush Holds Back, Americans Pursue Dialogue with N. Korea
Reuters, Nov. 23-Amid a continued Bush administration split on the way ahead, other Americans -- including a congressman, senior Senate aides and former U.S. officials -- are meeting North Koreans at home and abroad to try to facilitate negotiations on nuclear and other issues. (Quote by Professor Susan Shirk of the University of California at San Diego.)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N23211141.htm

Same article appeared in:
MSNBC, Nov. 23
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters11-23-091317.asp?reg=PACRIM

Today's Physicians Focus on Doctor-Patient Rapport
Copley News Service, Nov. 23-As the over-50 population has increased, and as frustrated patients have become angry consumers, the medical profession has paid more attention to doctor-patient rapport. And doctors with poor bedside skills often are enrolled - usually at the insistence of attorneys or medical boards - in remedial classes, such as the Physician Assessment and Clinical Education Program, or PACE, at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. (Quote by David Bazzo M.D., PACE's co-director within the UCSD Department of Family and Preventive Medicine.)
* No link available online.

Cliff Falls At Torrey Pines
NBCSandiego.com, Nov. 22-A 75-foot-wide section of a cliff fell onto the beach at Torrey Pines Saturday, but no one was hurt, according to a San Diego lifeguard lieutenant. A Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist doing some testing in the ocean noticed the slide. That portion of the beach belongs to UC San Diego.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/2658131/detail.html#

Similar articles appeared in:
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 22
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20031122-1322-fallingcliff.html

KFMB.COM, Nov. 22
http://www.kfmb.com/topstory20112.html

Faith in Truth
Newsday, Opinion, Nov. 23-The city of Hiroshima, knowing how in an instant the Enola Gay transformed the everyday into the infernal, took on as its mission ridding the world of nuclear weapons. The Enola Gay is the plane that on Aug. 6, 1945, dropped the first atomic bomb on an enemy. At the Peace Museum, two walls of letters of protest from successive mayors of the city are on display, each letter prompted by a nuclear weapons test by the United States or the Soviet Union or one of the other nuclear powers. (Article written by Michael Schudson. a professor of communication at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpsch233554549nov23,0,7381387.story

Illness and Medication Play Part in Troubled Sleep
Copley News Service, Nov. 23-While a restful night's sleep is tougher to achieve as we get older, age has little to do with it. Sleep comes in four stages, the deepest being the last stage. The problem, sleep disorder specialists say, is that stage begins to diminish in our 20s. (Quotes by UCSD associate professor of psychiatry Barbara Parry M.D., and UCSD professor of psychiatry Sonia Ancoli-Israel.)
* No link available online.

Taking Care of Yourself for a Better, Longer Life
Copley News Service, Nov. 23-Many people older than 50 don't start thinking about protecting their health until something terrible happens to one of their friends. Doctors point out that some people older than 50 may fear regular checkups because they think of them as opportunities to hear bad news they can't do anything about. (Quote by Tom McAfee M.D., physician in chief at UCSD Medical Center.)
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Schwarzenegger Plays Dual Roles
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 23-In his first week as California's governor, former actor Arnold Schwarzenegger played two separate roles: affable, media-friendly leader and menacing Republican enforcer. So far, he's received only mixed reviews from some Sacramento legislators, who have complained that the new governor wants them to approve plans quickly without giving them details. (Quote by Thad Kousser, a political scientist at UC San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20031123-9999_1n23gov.html

Grinch Won't be Stealing Dr. Seuss Centennial
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 23-It's hard to say what Theodor Seuss Geisel would have thought about his whimsical little poems for children being whipped into big-budget blockbusters, with merchandise ranging from board games and lollipops to snow globes, stuffed Things and sugar-coated cereals. In the wake of the certain box-office success of "Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat," a sculpture of Geisel will be dedicated March 2 at the University of California, San Diego.
* No link available online.

Panel Proposes Burning 27,000 Acres Annually
North County Times, Nov. 24-Thinning explosive chaparral through so-called prescribed burns is emerging as a leading local strategy for preventing another firestorm of the magnitude that just tore through San Diego County. There is growing support for the strategy among county officials, and environmentalists say they will not stand in the way of intentional burning ---- so long as such fires don't wipe out the last remaining habitat of rare animals. (Quote by Richard Carson, UC San Diego professor of economics.)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2003/11/23/news/top_stories/11_22_0321_46_31.prt

In Japan, Vigilance Key to Security
Stars & Stripes, Nov. 24-Accustomed to tremors beneath the earth, Japan's residents were shaken a bit last week by fresh threats from the al-Qaida terrorist network promising new homicide attacks against countries supporting the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. (Quote by Ellis Krauss, a professor at University of California, San Diego's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.)
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=18138&archive=true

Popular Television, Stage Actress Kellie Waymire Dies at 36
KFMB, Nov. 23-Officials reported that a scholarship fund has been set up at UC San Diego Foundation in memory of Kellie Waymire, a popular young actress who died at her Los Angeles home at the age of 36. According to Waymire's agent, the actress, who earned her master's degree from UCSD, died Nov. 13, apparently of an undiagnosed medical problem.
http://www.kfmb.com/topstory20133.html