A Sampling of Clips for 
September 04 - 07, 2004

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A New Approach to Fighting Lice
New York Times, Sept. 7-The start of school can also mean the start of head lice season, and the unpleasant choice of picking lice out or poisoning them. Now there is a new approach: a lotion that suffocates the bugs. According to a study released yesterday in the journal Pediatrics, the lotion rid 95 percent of a group of 133 children of their head lice. The study was conducted by the inventor of the lotion, Dr. Dale L. Pearlman of Family Medical Center in Menlo Park, Calif. (Quote by Howard Taras M.D., a professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/07/health/07trea.html

A Presidential Campaign Tinged With Rust
New York Times, Opinion, Sept. 5-The names must seem like mantras for schedulers on the Bush and Kerry campaigns: Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin. Those great swing states of the aging industrial heartland have become the tape loop of the 2004 campaign, linked by their Rust Belt tribulations and stodgy disavowal of permanent Red or Blue status. Having fallen behind economically, they have surged to the forefront politically this year on the wings of their industrial frailty. But if the candidates or their running mates seem to be in one of those states every other day -- which, in fact, they are, if not every day -- what has the focus on the Rust Belt meant for the rest of the union? Has the national debate been distorted by one region? (Quote by Richard Feinberg, an economist at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/05/weekinreview/05dao.html

Ports Load Up on High-Tech Gear
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 7-The technological advances at NYK Logistics' port yard near the posts of Los Angeles and Long Beach, are a window on the future. A decade after their Asian and European counterparts were forced to automate because their ports lacked the space to expand -- and almost two years after the California ports reached an agreement with unionized dockworkers to allow labor-saving technologies -- shipping lines on the Pacific seaboard are getting with it. (Quote by Steven P. Erie, a political science professor and director of the Urban Studies and Planning Program at UC San Diego.)
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-porttech7sep07,1,6053545.story

Science Seeks to Set Up 1st Digital Fish Library
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 6-Many of the things that make sharks such efficient killers - their keen sense of smell, their ability to track prey, their explosive speed - are hidden from view. For marine biologist Jeffrey Graham, who has studied the internal anatomy of sharks for years at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, lifting the veil has meant opening the animal up in laborious and destructive dissections. Now, in a newly proposed project at UCSD, Graham and other marine biologists from Scripps have joined with radiologists on campus to find another way. They have begun to scan fish with MRI machines, high-tech diagnostic tools typically used in medicine, and hope to expand their work in a formally funded program.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20040906-9999-7m6fishsub.html

Similar article appeared in:
Copley News Service, Sept. 6
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Upbeat Economists like Outlook as China and India Surge
Ottawa Citizen, Sept. 4-Economics, the so-called dismal science, is showing a sunnier aspect these days. This generalization, as well as some surprising observations, is based on a survey of a dozen economists, including UCSD professor emeritus Clive Granger, who have been awarded the Nobel Prize and on subsequent interviews with several others at a lakeside-gathering of the laureates in Lindau, Germany.
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Budget Change Leads to Admission for Some UCSD Hopefuls
KFMB News, Sept. 3-Because there's more money than anticipated in the state budget, 78 students who'd been denied enrollment at UC San Diego will get to enroll as freshmen, officials said Friday. After lawmakers indicated they would not provide funds in the state budget for 2004-05 enrollment growth, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger further proposed a 10 percent enrollment reduction, the students accepted a so-called Guaranteed Transfer Option, which meant they would be allowed to enroll at UCSD in two years.
http://www.kfmb.com/topstory28910.html

Similar article appeared in:
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 4
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040904/news_1n4uc.html

North County Times, Sept. 3
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/09/04/news/sandiego/21_41_169_3_04.txt

The Political Arts
Contra Costa Times, Sept. 4-Musicians and film directors use their celebrity to push for candidates, and most of them are supporting Kerry. (Quote by Michael Schudson, a professor of communications and sociology at University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/9598485.htm

Greater Output - Fewer Jobs?
Sacramento Bee, Sept. 6-Labor Day finds American workers more productive than ever - perhaps too productive for their own good. Following two consecutive months of disappointing employment numbers, the U.S. economy added 144,000 jobs last month, a performance that many economists regarded as good but not great. While hiring has clearly been curtailed by rising oil prices and general softness in the recovery, economists said improvements in productivity also have been a key reason. (Quote by Michael Bernstein, an economic historian at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/10648281p-11566971c.html

Desperate Trek in Desert
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 7-In the first six months of this year, Mexican border agents tallied 201,000 immigrants on the bruising, 50-mile dirt road from Altar through the desert to the Arizona border. And that was just between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., when they manned their sole checkpoint. In the decade since special operations such as Gatekeeper in San Diego County have been in place, the U.S. Border Patrol has choked off the illegal free-for-all through urban areas. (Quote by Wayne Cornelius, an immigration expert at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20040907-9999-1n7smuggle.html

City Hall Power Play Becoming Tug of War
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 5-The battle began brewing in July over a Nov. 2 ballot measure to give the San Diego mayor power over the budget and the hiring and firing of department heads. At the time, it seemed more like a boxing match than a brawl. In one corner stood Mayor Dick Murphy, and in the other, City Hall watchdog Mel Shapiro. Murphy drafted the measure with a small group of supporters, then found City Council support to put it on the ballot. Shapiro supplied $1,000 of seed money to an opposition committee he named Citizens Against One Man Rule. (Quote by Steve Erie, a political science professor at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics
/20040905-9999-1m5campaign.html

Aging is No Barrier to Learning
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 4-A new Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Cal State San Marcos has been created in the hopes of finding interesting, noncredit, college-level courses for older adults. The Osher Foundation began providing grants to colleges and universities for the creation of new programs or strengthening existing ones in lifelong learning. Now some 48 schools have benefited from this generosity, including UCSD which has been awarded $100,000 to expand the university's Institute for Continued Learning.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040904/news_1c4nelesen.html

Gardening Goes Native
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 4-Wild lilac and white sage, mustang mint and manzanita. They are rich in fragrance, have distinctive flowers and can create breathtaking additions to any garden. Naturalist Julie Schneider Ljubenkov will feature these and other plants in her class, "Gardening & Landscaping With California Native Plants," at MiraCosta College's San Elijo campus beginning Sept. 16. She currently teaches botanical watercolor at University of California, San Diego.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20040904-9999-m1m04clastxt.html

Surfing on the Fly
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 4-Chances are, Steve Piper, Norman Orida and Chuck Mitchell never would have crossed paths had it not been for their passion for fly-fishing in the surf. Piper is a researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he studies the effects of carbon dioxide on the environment. Orida, works for Optimer Pharmaceuticals Inc., and Mitchell is co-owner of O'Connor Sales Agency. They're as different as their careers and their personalized fishing gear and casting styles, but they have one common bond: Fly fishing.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040904/news_lz1s4surffly.html