A Sampling of Clips for 
October 12, 2005

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Softer Line for Change in China
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 12-Facing growing pressure to take a harder line with China over trade, Treasury Secretary John W. Snow showed Tuesday that pushing the Chinese government to further loosen control over its currency would be a delicate task. (Quote by Barry Naughton, a Chinese economy expert at UCSD.) More

Next-Generation Cinema Steals iGrid Spotlight
Information Week, Oct. 10-Ultrahigh-definition streaming media sent around the world via gigabit optical networks highlighted the capabilities of emerging scientific networks at last month's iGrid 2005 workshop. In the workshop, held at UCSD's Calit2 facility Sept. 26 to 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

Supplemental Insurance
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 12-Folate - a form of vitamin B - helps fend off cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's. Or not. (Quote by Lauren Bartell Weiss, a nutritional epidemiologist at the UCSD School of Medicine.) More

Chamber Plans
Endowment to Honor Borchers
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 11-In a posthumous birthday commemoration for its longest-serving president, the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce plans to launch a $1 million endowment today in honor of Jack Borchers, who headed the organization from 1955 to 1975. (Mentions UCSD.) More