A Sampling of Clips for 
November 25 - 29, 2004

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California's New Stem-Cell Initiative Is Already Raising Concerns
New York Times, Nov. 27-As California moves to begin a lushly financed program of embryonic stem cell research, medical ethicists and other skeptics are concerned that the $3 billion that state voters approved for the endeavor could become a bonanza for private profiteers. (Quote by Marye Anne Fox, chancellor of the UCSD.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/27/national/27stem.html?oref=login&oref=login

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Florida Ledger, Nov. 27

Bracing for a Tighter Fit
Los Angeles Times, Nov. 29-The Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex may find itself swamped when restrictions on textile and apparel imports are lifted. (Quote by Steven Erie, director of the urban studies and planning program at UCSD.)
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ports29nov29,1,3464187.story

Close Race Reflects a Party Shift
Los Angeles Times, Nov. 25-San Diego's core leans toward the Democrats despite its heavily Republican suburbs. (Quote by Steve Erie, a political science professor at UCSD.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sdreal25nov25,1,5722349.story

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Arizona Central, Nov. 25

Digital Note-Passing Gains Respect Among Adults
USA Today, Nov. 26-Passing notes in the classroom is probably as old as formal education itself, but the advent of cell phones and other sophisticated handheld devices has elevated this communication to a digital art form. (Refers to research by William Griswold, a professor of computer science at UCSD.)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/services/2004-11-26-im-gains-cred_x.htm

Immune Cells Speed the Evolution of Novel Proteins
Science Magazine, Nov. 27-Evolution isn't known for its quick work. In recent years, researchers have come up with numerous ways to give it a kick in order to evolve proteins with new functions. (Refers to research by Roger Tsien, a biochemist at UCSD.)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5701/1457

UCSD Chancellor Says Stem-Cell Possibilities Unlimited
North County Times, Nov. 24-UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox said Tuesday that the university is poised to explore the possibilities of stem-cell research, after voters approved Proposition 71, allowing the state to sell $3 billion in bonds to finance such research.
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Term Limits Plan Backfires
Los Angeles Daily News, Nov. 29-California's term-limits law for state legislators has largely backfired, spurring more political-ladder climbing and behind-the-scenes games, a nonpartisan think tank said in a new report. (Quote by Thad Kousser, a professor of political science at UCSD.)
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2562583,00.html

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Tri-Valley Herald, Nov. 29
San Mateo County Times, Nov. 29

Shiley Gift Supports UCSD Research
San Diego Daily Transcript, Nov. 23-The University of California, San Diego received a $4 million pledge from Donald and Darlene Shiley that supports the university's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC).
http://www.sddt.com/Search/article.cfm?SourceCode=20041123tlb#

Question & Answer
Kentucky Herald, Nov. 26-Q & A with Dr. Richard Seymour, a research engineer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/living/science/10268479.htm

Trying to Unleash Potential in Underperforming Students
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Nov. 28-A program called Advancement Via Individual Determination - or AVID is being used by about 1,700 schools in 24 states. (Quote by Hugh Mehan, a professor in the Teacher Education Program at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/nov04/279405.asp?format=print

New Home on UCSD Campus for La Jolla Playhouse a
Perfect Fit
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 28- When a committee from La Jolla Playhouse and UCSD went looking for an architect to expand and unify the Playhouse's facilities on campus, they narrowed the list to two firms and headed to their offices in Los Angeles.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20041128-9999-1h28theater.html

More Improvements in the Wings
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 28-The La Jolla Playhouse will settle into the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Center early next year, and more improvements to the UCSD Theatre District are on the way.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/
20041128-9999-1h28theaside.html

A San Diego Institution
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 28-To most San Diegans, the name "Scripps" must mean royalty. It is, after all, one of the most common local brand names, derived from a once-prominent family that figured in San Diego's early 20th-century development. (Mentions Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
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Feeling Swell
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 28-Michelle Zive, a UCSD dietitian, says that by surfing she "learned what it feels like to lose complete control and allow the ocean to take care of things."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041128/news_lz1j28zive.html

Flaws in the U.S. Drug-Safety System
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 29-The recent Vioxx debacle illustrates what happens to public health when politics becomes the focus of a purportedly independent agency. (Article written by Bryan Liang, an adjunct professor at the UCSD School of Medicine.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041129/news_lz1e29liang.html

Life Expectancies can be Stretched, Scientists Say
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 24-From self-described anti-aging institutes to miracle elixirs to how-to manuals for living a century or more, baby boomers (and just about everyone else) want to live longer than those in previous generations. (Quote by Dr. Dilip V. Jeste, director of the Stein Institute for Research on Aging at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041124/news_1n24lifespan.html

Gameshow
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 26-The world of video games is growing increasingly like -- and intertwined with - Hollywood. (Refers to projects by UCSD film student graduate Mark Morris.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041126/news_lz1c26games.html

Spray Surfaces to Find Bright Future
San Diego Daily Transcript, Nov. 22-About four miles off the coast of Bermuda, an unmanned underwater vehicle called Spray popped up to the surface of the Atlantic Ocean at the end of a seven-week, 600-mile journey. There in a small boat waited a crew of researchers from Massachusetts' Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who had co-developed the craft with counterparts at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
http://www.sddt.com/Search/article.cfm?SourceCode=20041122tzc/?525#

Research, Technology and the Cost of Health Care: Cause or Cure?
San Diego Daily Transcript, Nov. 22-When it comes to health and longevity, we've come a long way since Hippocrates wrote the classic oath. In the near future, a new breed of practitioners being trained at institutions like UCSD's School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy will tailor therapies for the individual, based on his or her genetic makeup.
http://www.sddt.com/Search/article.cfm?SourceCode=20041122tzd#

Bear Business Keeps Girl Busy, Helps Cancer Patients
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 26-At 14, Taylor Crabtree attends La Costa Canyon High School in Carlsbad by day while moonlighting as manager of TayBear Co., a nonprofit she started as a fourth-grader. Since its inception, the organization has recruited 800 youth volunteers to paint hair clips, and has raised $100,000 and prepared bears that have been distributed to nearly 20,000 young patients with cancer and chronic blood diseases to almost 200 hospitals across the country, including the UC San Diego Medical Center.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041126/news_1mc26bears.html

Coming Home
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 28-Now on view in UCSD's University Art Gallery is "LoudIMAGE - Photographs by Luis Gispert." It features a young artist from New York. Derrick Cartwright collaborated with a professor from UCSD, Roberto Tejada, on this project, which features photography and video work that blur the boundaries between hip-hop culture, advertising imagery and the iconography of both painting and cheerleading.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20041128-9999-1a28derrick.html

Independent Thinker Charts Nocturnal Journeys
North County Times, Nov. 27-David Goodman studies the brain like a scientist from another century. In this age of multi-million dollar taxpayer-funded institutional research, he sticks out. (Quote by Daniel Kripke, a professor of psychiatry at UCSD.)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/11/27/news/
community/19_36_4111_26_04.txt

Kate Legge: Older, Wiser and on the Go
The Australian, Nov. 27-A man I know has brought his 90-year-old dad from New Zealand to live near him in Melbourne. The only exercise his father had been getting was as a pallbearer at funerals, carrying his friends to rest, farewelling familiar faces in the landscape of his life. It must be disquieting to watch your reference points fade away. (Quote by Dilip Jeste, professor of psychiatry and neurosciences at the UCSD.)
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_
page/0,5744,11505721%255E7583,00.html

Readers Share Tales of Baja Adventures
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 28-It's always good to get immediate feedback for a story, and that was the case with the Thanksgiving Day piece on Marshall Madruga's Baja Odyssey through the Sea of Cortez. Tim Barnett, oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, told of a similar Baja trip he and his family made 30 years ago to Puerto Escondido.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/20041128-911-outdoors.html

What's Shaking? Earthquake Exhibit Opens at Birch Aquarium
North County Times, Nov. 29-"Earthquake! Life on a Restless Planet," unveiled last week at Birch Aquarium, is the first in a series of new annual exhibits intended to showcase the research being done at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/11/28/special_reports/science
_technology/15_28_4111_27_04.txt

Questions Answered
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 24-Q & A column by Sherry Seethaler, a UCSD science writer and educator who answers science questions submitted by San Diego Union-Tribune readers.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041124/news_1c24sciqa.html