A Sampling of Clips for 
October 11, 2005

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Brother, Can You
Spare a Little Extra Research Money?
Investor's Business Daily, Oct. 10-Dr. Judith Swain, newly appointed director of the College of Integrated Life Sciences at UCSD says the academic world gets short shrift on funding. More

Surfing Whodunit
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 11-Who created the neoprene wetsuit? That's long been a sore point among the two entrepreneurs and a professor who each claim to be the inventor. (Quote by Jim Stewart, the former head of the underwater program at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

Next-Generation Cinema Steals iGrid Spotlight
Electronic Engineering Times, Oct. 10-In a workshop held at UCSD's Calit2 facility Sept. 26 - 29, NTT Labs technology demonstrated for the first time how it compresses and decompresses streams of between 6 Gbits and 4 Mbits/second for network transmission. More

Percentage of Women Varies by Geography
Electronic Engineering Times, Oct. 10-The engineering gender gap is universal, but a number of countries outshine the United States in percentages of women in the profession. (Quote by Maria Charles, a UCSD sociology professor.) More

Bush Poll Numbers Continue
to Slide, Even with His Base Investor's
Business Daily, Oct. 10-President Bush's approval ratings continue to fall, raising doubts about whether the president and his party can recover in time for the 2006 midterm elections. (Quote by Samuel Popkin, professor of political science at UCSD.) More

Scientists Find Gases from Earth's Mantle
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 11-Reaching 10,000 feet into the Pacific Ocean, marine geologists from La Jolla have snatched rare volcanic rocks off the sea floor, bringing to the surface chemicals direct from Earth's interior. (Quote by Dana Vukajlovich, a graduate student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

Professor Addresses Mexico Water Crisis
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 9-The city of Saltillo loses 67 percent of its water through leaks, theft and bad management, a researcher said in San Diego last week. Nicolás Pineda told the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at UCSD that northern Mexico's cities are facing a water crisis. More