A Sampling of Clips for 
October 11 - 13, 2003

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Republicans Run From Risk in Some Senate Fights
New York Times, Oct. 12- In a handful of states where incumbent Democratic senators would seem vulnerable -- including the Dakotas, Arkansas and Washington -- big-name Republican prospects are bowing out, reducing the party's hopes for big Senate gains. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a political science professor at UC San Diego.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/12/weekinreview/12HULS.html

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Contra Costa Times, Oct. 12
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/news/6996451.htm

Mexico's Land of Discord
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 13-Heated conflicts over claims to property are roiling the Mexican countryside, owing to contradictory laws and unverifiable Spanish deeds. (Quote by Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UC San Diego.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fg-mexlands13oct13000430,1,3664304.story

Doctors Find New Support in Treating Chronic Pain
San Diego Business Journal, Oct. 13- When Dr. Mark Wallace assesses patients suffering from chronic pain at the UC San Diego pain clinic, he pays less attention to medical tests and simply listens to patients. In medical school doctors are taught to rely on tests, X-rays and physical exams to assess a problem. Pain doesn't fit into this world, said Wallace, who is the medical director at the UCSD Center for Pain and Palliative Medicine.
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Newest Imaging Methods Begin 'Golden Age' of Seeing Inside Body
Dallas Morning News, Oct. 13-New technologies are helping scientists gather intelligence about the body's inner workings. Some of the methods, particularly those exploiting lasers, have stimulated scientists to herald a new era of imaging. UCSD physicist David Kleinfeld believes this is probably the beginning of a golden age of microscopy.
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Throwing Away the Nobel Prize
Sunday Times (London), Oct. 12-Britain's share of Nobel prizes has dropped dramatically, according to new research published today. Last week UK academics celebrated the news that three of this year's prestigious prizes were won by Britons. But only one of them remains in Britain; the other two work in America including Professor Clive Granger, of UC San Diego.
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Soft Science No More
The Economist, Oct. 11- This year's Nobel prize in economics has gone to two economists who epitomize the rise of statistical techniques: Robert Engle, an American economist at New York University, and Clive Granger, a Briton at the University of California at San Diego. They have crafted some of the most sophisticated tools to analyze economic data.
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Playhouse Meets Fund-Raising Goal
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 12-UCSD's La Jolla Playhouse has met a significant challenge on its path to completing its third theater and educational complex. By reaching its capital campaign goal of $42 million, the theater received another cool million from the Kresge Foundation, money that has already been dispersed toward the building project.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20031012-9999_1a12welsh.html

Watercooler Stories
United Press International, Oct. 13- Parents would rather send their children to counseling than give them medication for a social anxiety disorder. According to University of California at San Diego researcher Denise Chavira, parents seem to be particularly concerned about drug side effects.
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Heart-Saving Device Comes with a Hefty Price Tag
Copley News Service, Oct. 13-Coronary stents laced with the new drug sirolimus are far less likely to cause obstructive artery scarring than older, uncoated stents, a San Diego cardiologist and others say in a recent report. At the University of California, San Diego, Dr. Daniel Blanchard said that cardiologists are starting to use the sirolimus stents, and many patients are demanding them.
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Scores and UC Admissions
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 11-A reader writes in about her daughter who was turned down this year for admission to UCLA and UC San Diego on what appear to be grounds other than poor test scores or grades.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-le-infante11oct11,1,870667.story

A Mixed Bag for Strikes
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 11- Yesterday, the 70,000-strong UFCW was poised to enter a bitter battle affecting supermarkets across Southern California. As the union considered a strike, the situation begged the question: Is history on the side of labor or industry? (Quote by Abe Shragge, a historian and an adjunct professor at the University of California San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20031011-9999_1b11history.html

County Kicks Off Flu Vaccination Campaign
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 13- San Diego County will kick off the season's flu shot campaign today to remind high-risk individuals that they should get vaccinated soon to protect themselves this winter. Between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. at Martin Luther King Park in Encanto, health workers will give about 200 flu shots for a donation of $2 per person for those who meet the definition of high risk. Several physicians, including UCSD pediatrics professor Dr. Mark H. Sawyer will speak at the event.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20031013-9999_1m13flu.html

Schwarzenegger Fame Means Clout -- but That Will Get Him Only So Far
San Jose Mercury News, Oct. 13-Arnold Schwarzenegger's movie career may be on hold, but the fame he gained from years as a Hollywood superstar should continue paying dividends for him as governor -- at least for a while. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a political scientist at University of California-San Diego.)
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/7001918.htm

Everything Fell Into Place for Schwarzenegger
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Oct. 12- Californians, those who voted for Schwarzenegger and those who didn't, still have little idea what their new "governator" will do. But with the sort of name recognition that no amount of campaign commercials could buy, Schwarzenegger simply "rode the wave" and landed upright in the governor's office. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, political science professor at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03285/230177.stm

Doctors Search for a Way to Breach Barrier
Copley News Service, Oct. 13- Many people greatly underestimate the importance and influence of the blood-brain barrier, or BBB. Not only does it generally fend off the vast horde of neurological threats, it also keeps out many of the drugs and medicines that could help when the brain or central nervous system (CNS) does fall ill. (Quote by Victor Nizet, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of California at San Diego.)
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Scientists from Scripps Research Institute Will Establish New Biotech Center in Palm Beach County
South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Oct. 12- The announcement last week from Gov. Jeb Bush and Scripps Research Institute officials that the research center would establish an East Coast branch in Florida generated a rush of excitement in what could turn Palm Beach County into a world mecca for biomedical research. News of the Scripps Florida venture reverberated through Southern California, where other research giants such as the University of California, San Diego, serve as a nucleus for the nation's largest concentration of biotech companies.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pscripps12oct12,0,7278318.story?coll=sfla-news-palm