A Sampling of Clips for
October 12th, 2007
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AIDS Drugs May Protect Brain
U.S. News & World Report, Oct 11 -- Preliminary research suggests that potent AIDS drugs might stop the brain damage that afflicts many people infected with HIV. (Quotes Dr. Stuart Lipton, a neurologist with the Burnham Institute for Medical Research and UCSD) More
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After Hu
The Wall Street Journal, Opinion, Oct. 12 -- When the Chinese Communist Party's 17th National Congress opens on Monday, President Hu Jintao is certain to receive another five-year term as Party head. But the real nail-biter isn't Mr. Hu's tenure, but who will be positioned to succeed him in 2012. (Written by Susan Shirk, a professor of political science at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UCSD) More
Apocalypse Now?
The Nation, Oct. 11 -- Is there anything historically unprecedented about the Bush Administration's military adventurism, intense secrecy and fearmongering? Chalmers Johnson, a former Navy man, cold war consultant to the CIA and emeritus professor at UCSD helps us unravel this mystery by breathing new life into an old myth. More
Boeing, Bush Pressed to Fix Glitches in Electronic Border Fence
Bloomberg, Oct. 12 -- President George W. Bush's vision of securing the U.S.'s southwestern border with a system of sensors and cameras faces a crucial field test this month as Boeing Co. tries to fix problems that have delayed the $8 billion project. (Quotes Mohan Trivedi, director of the Computer Vision and Robotics Research Laboratory at UCSD) More
Police Issue Report Cards to Motorists
NBC San Diego, Oct. 11 -- The San Diego Police Department has joined forces with the UCSD campus police in an innovative effort to curtail the spiking number of thefts and arsons towards vehicles in the area, officials said Thursday. More
Pediatric Cold Medicines Being Taken Off Shelves
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 12 -- Chicken soup, saline nose drops and a vaporizer may sound like Grandma's favorite antidotes. But such back-to-basic remedies are what parents likely will have to use to treat tiny cold sufferers, because drug makers voluntarily pulled many kids' cold medicines off the market yesterday. (Quotes Dr. Howard Taras, a pediatrician with the Community Pediatrics division of the UCSD School of Medicine) More
Knot a Problem
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 11 -- The subject may not rank up there with, say, dark matter or the origins of life, but scientists remain puzzled by knots. Science, it seems, can't yet explain why garden hoses and Christmas lights invariably seem to get tangled. But if the why remains a mystery, some new research at UCSD offers clues to the how. More
Science Program Launched
North County Times, Oct. 10 -- UCSD expanded a hands-on science program that links university scientists to underserved high schools today at Lincoln High School. The program, Biobridge, has already taught nearly 100 high school teachers in Sweetwater, San Diego, Poway and Grossmont Unified school districts to use cutting-edge techniques in school labs, and brought new programs to 10 San Diego Unified classrooms. Biobridge originated in the laboratory of UCSD pharmacologist Dr. Roger Tsien, and is supported by both federal and private funding. More