A Sampling of Clips for November 14^th, 2008

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UN: Brown Clouds Over Asia Worsen Global Warming
CBS News, Nov. 13 -- A thick brown cloud of soot, particles and chemicals stretching from the Persian Gulf to Asia threatens health and food supplies in the world, the U.N. reported Thursday, citing what it called the newest threat from global warming. The enormous cloud masses can move across continents within three to four days, said lead scientist, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD. More

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Eating Red Meat Shown to Increase Cancer Risk
WNBC, Nov. 14 -- New York, Nov. 14 -- Human consumption of red meat and milk products can contribute to the increased risk of cancerous tumors, according to a National Cancer Institute-backed study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A husband-and-wife team of physician-scientists at the UCSD School of Medicine, has newly demonstrated a mechanism for how this increase in risk occurs. More

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Showcasing Your Life Online?
New Software Uses Images of Keys to Make Copies
Scientific American, Nov. 13 -- What if a thief could make a copy of your home, office or car keys using nothing more than a picture posted to the photo-sharing Web site Flickr or a social networking site such as Facebook? Sounds far-fetched, but a team of researchers at UCSD proved it can be done.  More

Lung Cancer Vaccine
WCTV, Fla., Nov. 14 -- UCSD researcher Lyudmila Bazhenova talks about lung cancer and attempts to develop a vaccine to combat the disease. More

Earthquake Study Drives Crack Team of Engineers
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 14 --Yesterday, while millions of people were participating in the Great Southern California ShakeOut, a regionwide earthquake preparedness drill, Stavridis, Benson Shing, a structural engineering professor, and colleagues were generating temblors at UCSD's Camp Elliott Structural Research Center off Pomerado Road. More

Ready for the Big One
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 14 -- About 400,000 San Diego County residents joined in the Great Southern California ShakeOut, a simulation of a 7.8 earthquake on the southern San Andreas Fault that was billed as the largest quake drill in U.S. history. Organizers hope the drill will help people instinctively take the right steps during a major quake. The UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest practiced triage for scores of injuries. More

Walk-Out Planned at UCSD to Protest Prop 8
San Diego 6, Nov. 14 -- Students plan a walkout and rally at UCSD in La Jolla Friday to condemn passage of Proposition 8, the initiative that passed last week that amended California's constitution to remove the right of same-sex couples to marry. More

Best New Film Series
San Diego CityBeat, Nov. 11 – It’s been a very good year for San Diego film fans. Plenty of bars, cafés and restaurants have started their own weekly film series, screening movies inside and outside the mainstream. Not a week goes by that there isn’t something great to see in town that isn’t in the multiplexes. But of all the up-and-comers, we’re most impressed by what ArtPower! Film (www.artpwr.com), the new wing of the UCSD arts organization, has put together. More

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