A Sampling of Clips for 
October 15 - 17, 2005

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The Defining Element
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 17-Researchers are learning more about testosterone -- hormone that first makes an embryo a boy, and then turns boys into men -- increasingly with an eye on the hormone's role in the aging body. (Refers to research by Dr. Franklin Gaylis, a La Mesa urologist and professor at UCSD.) More

Stem Cell Breakthrough?
Newsday, Oct. 17-Obtaining lines of coveted embryonic stem cells without destroying the embryo has been a "holy grail" of scientists, and now separate teams say they have found ways of addressing such a goal. (Quote by Larry Goldstein, a professor of cellular and molecular medicine at UCSD.) More

Prizes that Make you Go Hmm
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 17-There have always been things -- call them achievements -- that deserved some sort of official acknowledgment but were unlikely to get any. But for the inventor of karaoke, for the founder of the Association of Dead People, for the doctors who treated a man who pricked his finger and smelled putrid for five years, there was nothing before 1991, the year the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony was founded. (Mentions Hagop Akiskal, a professor of psychiatry at UCSD.) More

Thousands Turn to Programs of Vigorous
Exercise that Build, not just Soothe, the Muscles
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 17-Thousands of chronic back-pain sufferers have gotten better after participating in medically supervised exercise programs that have cropped up nationwide in the last decade. About 20 million Americans are sidelined by back pain every year, and 80% to 90% feel better within two months of the exercise programs. (Quote by Dr. Vert Mooney, an orthopedic surgeon at UCSD.) More

Get Storage Smarts
Information Week, Oct. 17-A UCSD portal has become a clearinghouse for storage education, user groups, research, and more. More

Scholarship on the Edge
Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 17-Marginalia - the physical record of a reader's encounter with a text, scrawled or jotted in margins and on endpapers and flyleaves - has become an academic genre of its own, albeit one that elicits mixed reactions. (Quote by R. Arvid Nelsen, who works at UCSD's Geisel Library.) More

In Politics of Trade Pacts,
Aid for Workers Falls Short of Promises
Kentucky Herald, Oct. 17-During the election campaign and again this summer as the Bush administration fought for a free-trade agreement with Caribbean countries, the White House regularly extolled its efforts on behalf of American workers who lose their jobs to foreign competition. (Quote by Lori Kletzer, an economics professor at UCSD.) More

Council Set to Vote on Pieces of Makeover
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 16-San Diego's elected leaders - at least those who haven't quit or been convicted during the past chaotic few months - are paving the way for a new kind of government. (Quote by Steve Erie, a UCSD political scientist and one of the forces behind the transition.) More