A Sampling of Clips for 
October 27, 2005

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Most Asthma Drugs OK During Pregnancy
ABC News, Oct. 27—With the exception of steroid pills, asthma medications taken during pregnancy do not appear to impair the growth of the unborn baby, UCSD researchers report. More

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Reuters, Oct. 26

Protection Time
Forbes, Oct. 6—You might not have paid much attention in April when President Bush signed a rewrite of personal bankruptcy laws long sought by credit card companies. (Refers to research by Michelle J. White, a professor of economics at UCSD.) More

Americans Contemplate War's Milestone
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 27—Around the country, many Americans paused Wednesday to ponder a war that on most days is little more than background noise in their lives. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a political science professor at UCSD.) More

Revisiting an Immigrant Family
PBS, Oct. 26—Now, the third of our reports marking our 30th anniversary, we're revisiting some of the stories we've covered over the years to see what's changed. Tonight, the subject is immigration. NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Kaye, of KCET-Los Angeles, looks at what's become of a Mexican-American family he first met in 1993. (Q & A with Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UCSD.) More

UCSD Researches Drug
Combo to Reduce Heart Attacks
Channel 10, San Diego, Oct. 26—A new two-drug combination may reduce your risk of a heart attack, according to researchers at the UCSD Medical Center. More

The Weekly 100
LA Weekly, Oct. 28—Now that his mind-boggling retrospective has been dismantled and packed away, Tim Hawkinson finally has time to move into his new studio. In the meantime, the public can now see the 360,000-pound Bear sculpture he created for UCSD, and rumors persist of an L.A. landing for his gargantuan Uberorgan sound sculpture in 2006. More

Haunting Visual Arts and Film
Voice of San Diego, Oct. 27—Not very many public events, particularly visual arts events, ask the audience to bring cell phones and laptops to the performances. But telecommunications media artist Adriene Jenik encourages you to do just that. Jenik, who is an associate professor at UCSD, will premiere her latest interactive, multimedia work titled "SPECFLIC" this Friday evening. More

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San Diego City Beat, Oct. 27

California Computer Scientists Double Volume of Data in NIH Biotech Repository
Innovations Report, Oct. 27—High-throughput sequencing of an individual’s DNA yields a map of genetic variation which can give clues to the genetic underpinning of human disease, according to UCSD researchers. More

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San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 27

Student Council at
UCSD Agrees to Ban TV Sex
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 27—UCSD student government leaders decided last night to temporarily ban nudity and sex on a student-run television station, stopping – for now – the controversial and sometimes pornographic Koala TV show. More

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NBC San Diego, Oct. 27
KFMB, Oct. 27

UCSD Scholarships for Athletics Tabled
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 27—A controversial proposal to create athletic scholarships at UCSD was tabled Tuesday and will be revisited by the Academic Senate once concerns are addressed. More

Study: Not Many Jobs Leaving State
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 27—When Buck Knives moved from El Cajon to Idaho last year, company executives made no secret that a key reason for leaving was the high cost of doing business in California. Yet despite this hyperbole, there's little evidence that employers left the state in significant numbers, according to a new study from the Public Policy Institute of California. (Quote by Ross Starr, an economist at UCSD.) More