A Sampling of Clips for 
October 6, 2003

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Archeologist, Sculptor Win 'Genius' Grants
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 5-The 24 recipients of the $500,000 MacArthur Foundation awards include several from the West Coast. One winner included archeologist Guillermo Algaze, of UC San Diego, who has spent much of his career studying the 4,000-year-old city of Titris Hoyuk in Turkey, a planned community that has been called "Irvine by the Euphrates." Algaze's studies have illuminated the social, cultural, and economic transformations associated with the emergence of the earliest cities in the region.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-macarthur5oct05,1,7440141.story

They're Richer, and We're Richer for Them
USA Today, Oct. 6-Money does drop out of the sky. Just ask the 24 new Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellows for 2003 were announced Sunday in Chicago. One of the winners was Guillermo Algaze, an anthropologist at University of California, San Diego. Algaze will receive $ 500,000 over the next five years -- no strings attached -- to support his work. The disciplines of the other winners range from biomedical engineering to blacksmithing.
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20031006/5562488s.htm

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The 2003 MacArthur Fellows
Washington Post, Oct. 5
Main Story-http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45408-2003Oct4.html
Side Bar-http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45364-2003Oct4.html

List of 2003 MacArthur Foundation Fellows
Associated Press, Oct. 6
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Being Called Genius Gives UCSD Prof Rich Feeling
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 5- Guillermo Algaze, an anthropological archaeologist at the University of California San Diego, was one of this year's recipients of what's often called a "genius grant," the MacArthur Foundation Fellows Award. He gets $500,000 - awarded in quarterly installments over a five-year period - with no strings attached. (Quotes by previous UCSD winners Patricia Smith Churchland, a professor of philosophy, and Michael Schudson, a professor of communications.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20031005-9999_1n5genius.html

UCSD Anthropology Professor Awarded 'Genius Grant'
KFMB.com, Channel 8, Oct. 5- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced that an anthropology professor at UCSD was among the 24 winners of this year's "genius" grants. The UCSD professor, Guillermo Algaze, 48, and the other recipients each will receive $500,000 over five years. They may spend the money as they please, according to the foundation.
http://www.kfmb.com/topstory18703.html

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U.S. Newswire, Oct. 5
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Marriage Dividend
Business Week, Oct. 6-Women who want to live a long and healthy life can best increase their odds by acquiring -- no, not exercise equipment -- a spouse. A new study lead by Thomas Rutledge, a psychologist at the University of California at San Diego found that women age 65 and older with a longtime husband coped with the stresses of aging, clocked lower blood pressure readings, and had stronger immune systems than their single counterparts.
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'The Discovery of Global Warming': Living in the Greenhouse
New York Times, Oct. 5-''The Discovery of Global Warming'', a paper by Spencer R. Weart, director of the Center for the History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics, describes the intellectual journey of humans towards the conclusion of global warming. (Cites a 1957 paper written by Roger Revelle, former director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/books/review/05REVKINT.html?

New UC President
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Oct. 6- Last Thursday, his first day as University of California president, Robert C. Dynes acknowledged the several fiscal challenges confronting the UC system. His first problem arose Friday, when more than 10,000 unionized undergraduate and graduate students who teach undergrads at UC's eight campuses skipped their classes to protest the breakdown in contract talks. Our guess is that Dynes will deal with this and other problems in his usual style-straightforward and direct.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/mon/opinion/news_mz1ed6bottom.htm

Huntington's Clogs the Pipes
New Scientist, Oct. 4-A study lead by Lawrence Goldstein of the University of California, San Diego, has show that blocked transport systems may be what kills brain cells in people with Huntington's. The disease is caused by mutations in the gene that codes for the huntingtin protein, and two teams have now shown that the abnormal protein can block the transport of molecules within axons, the long finger-like extensions of nerve cells.
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DNA Forms Building Block for Next Breed of Computer
Copley News Service, Oct. 6- For years, researchers have taken advantage of the ever-increasing power of computers to crack the genetic code. But Scripps Research Institute chemist Ehud Keinan and a handful of scientists around the world are going in the opposite direction, using DNA - the blueprint for cellular life - to crunch numbers inside a new breed of computer. (Quote by Pavel Pevzner, a computer science and engineering professor at the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.)
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Health Insurance Bill Revives National Debate
San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 5-When the California Legislature passed SB2 on the last day of its session, lawmakers put the state center stage in a simmering national debate over how to deal with the growing numbers of people without health insurance. SB2, designed to take effect in 2006, could eventually require about 134,000 California employers to either offer a certain level of health benefits to their workers or pay an as yet undetermined fee into a state fund that would provide coverage. (Quote by Richard Kronick, a professor of family medicine at UC San Diego.)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/05/BUGUO245D51.DTL

Prop. 54: Opinions Strong on Racial-Data Initiative
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 5- With 135 names on the recall ballot Tuesday, there's a lot for California voters to think about. So much, in fact, that there's something else on the ballot they might not have heard much about: Proposition 54. Proponents call it the "Racial Privacy Initiative." Opponents call it the "Racial Information Ban." (Quote by Takashi Fujitani, a UC San Diego history professor.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20030929-9999_1n29prop54.html

Let's Talk
Design News, Oct. 6-Graduate engineering student Vincent Leung from the University of California, San Diego, has developed an ultra-low-power silicon germanium transmitter for third-generation W-CDMA cellphone applications that can lower power consumption in transmitters by up to 50% when the handset is close to a base station, allowing longer talk times in 3G cellphones.
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Pioneer in Nuclear Fusion
The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec), Oct. 4-Marshall N. Rosenbluth, a pioneer in unleashing and taming nuclear fusion, the force that powers the sun and stars, died on Sunday in San Diego. He was 76. The cause was pancreatic cancer, according to the University of California at San Diego, where Rosenbluth taught.
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Was Whale Hunt an Eco-Disaster?
Gazette (Montreal, Quebec), Oct. 4-The slaughter of more than half a million whales in the North Pacific and Bering Sea set off an ecological chain reaction that is wiping out sea lions and kelp forests today, according to a controversial new report by researchers from Santa Cruz, Calif., Seattle and Alaska. (Quote by Jeremy B.C. Jackson, a marine ecologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
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Aiming for 'Far Reaches' of the Music World
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 5- Joseph Waters decided to get some big names, including Incubus and Dennis Miller, for next weekend's NWEAMO 2003 International Electro-Acoustic Music Festival here. The event, which expanded from Portland to San Diego last year, takes place Friday and Saturday at SDSU's Smith Recital Hall and will also feature UCSD students Nathan Clark and Tucker Dulin, who will present an analog noise duo opus for "dueling computers."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/arts/news_1a5varga.html