A Sampling of Clips for October 13^th, 2009

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Lying to Kids Isn't So Rare
USA Today, Oct. 13 -- Mom and Dad may say honesty is the best policy, but it is not a policy they always follow, according to a study in The Journal of Moral Education. Parents strongly discourage their children from lying, but they often lie to influence the behavior and emotions of their kids, write authors Gail Heyman and Diem Luu of UCSD and Kan Lee of the University of Toronto. More

Myriad Details on Water Fix Divide Calif Lawmakers
San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 12 -- Figuring out a way to update California's water system has vexed governors and lawmakers for decades, a record of inaction Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger hopes to reverse through a special legislative session this fall. Even after days of negotiations, it is unclear whether the pressure Schwarzenegger is placing on the legislative leaders of the Assembly and Senate will result in the type of consensus that has eluded generations of political leaders. "I think the jury is still out," said Steve Erie, a political science professor at UCSD, who said Democrats and Republicans set aside their differences decades ago to make sure the state had a reliable water supply for farms and cities. "But now even water projects are in the partisan crosshairs in Sacramento." More

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It’s Time to Sideline Players with Head Injuries
Boston Globe, Oct. 13 -- In a perfect world of public health, millions of parents would blitz football fields with the Hall of Fame fury of Ray Nitschke and Dick Butkus, storming sidelines to haul their precious babies away from bone-crunching tragedy. That is what should have happened after the National Football League’s own study found retired players age 30 to 49 have dementia at a rate 19 times that of normal men that age. Retirees 50 and older were five times more likely to have memory-related disease. (Quotes Michael Levy, a pediatric neurosurgeon at UCSD) More

UCSD Makes the Grade as Green College Campus
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 13 -- UCSD is among the 26 greenest — or environmentally friendly — college campuses in the nation, according to a new analysis by greenreportcard.org UCSD was the only school in the county and the only one in the UC system to make the list. Its grade was an A-, putting it on par with highly touted institutions such as Yale University and lesser-known campuses, including Pacific Lutheran University. The high ranking “is a testament to the innovative and ceaseless efforts of our students, faculty and staff,” said Russell Thackston, assistant vice chancellor of Auxiliary and Plant Services at UCSD. “We will continue to aggressively pursue our goal to be among the world's greenest campuses.” More

Researchers Determining the Costs of Climate Change
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 13 -- In an effort to pin down the costs of global climate change, one of the world's largest insurers announced yesterday that its research network is joining with San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to study the effect of changes in the weather and sea level. Under the arrangement, Scripps will provide climate research to the Willis Group of London and its clients in the insurance industry, which could use the data to assess their exposure to financial risks from rising sea levels or weather-related catastrophes. More

A Celebration of Culture:
Chicano History Mural to be Officially Unveiled UCSD Campus
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 13 -- Nearly 50 years after its founding, UCSD is about to display its first mural depicting Chicano history. The work includes the likenesses of Chicano civil rights leaders Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, along with a San Diego landmark — the pyramid-inspired band shell at the center of Chicano Park. More

Global Warming Can Be Delayed Four Decades, Study Finds
North County Times, Oct. 13 -- Abrupt and potentially deadly climate change can be delayed about 40 years without the need for enormously costly cuts in carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new study by a team including scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Cutting back on non-CO2 contributors to climate change will push back the threshold for reaching a dangerous level of global warming, stated the study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Its authors include Mario Molina and Veerabhadran Ramanathan of the institution, part of UCSD. More

Region Gears Up for Possible $260M in Solar Power Projects:
Application Effort for Stimulus Funds Involves
Multiple Organizations and UCSD Students
San Diego Business Journal, Oct. 12 -- A joint effort coordinated by nonprofit CleanTech San Diego has a good chance of bringing $260 million worth of federal stimulus funding for photovoltaic solar power production to various municipalities in the region. (Quotes Byron Washom, UCSD's director of strategic energy initiatives) More

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