A Sampling of Clips for 
September 07, 2005

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Red-Carpet Opening at Gompers Charter
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 7-Public schools across San Diego welcomed 135,000 students back to class yesterday, but perhaps nowhere was there a more grand reception than at Gompers Charter Middle School in Chollas View. There to welcome students included Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox. (Quote by Cecil Lytle, a professor at UCSD who helped found the Preuss School and sits on Gompers' board of directors.) More

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Should Labs Treat Chips More Like Humans?
National Geographic News, Sept. 6-The announcement last week that scientists have pieced together the genome sequence of the chimpanzee-and found that humans and chimps are 96 percent similar-has reignited a debate over the ethics of biological research using chimpanzees. In an article in the science journal Nature, Pascal Gagneux, a biologist and primate expert at UCSD, and his colleagues went so far as to recommend that studies using chimpanzees should follow ethical principles generally similar to those currently used in studies on human subjects who are unable to give informed consent. More

Dot-Com Inflation Creeping up Again
Los Angeles Daily News, Sept. 7-Venture capital, to be sure, is a sport played best by risk takers who understand that the cost of getting into a deal does not matter nearly as much as the price someone else -- whether a larger company or investors through an initial public offering -- is willing to pay at the exit. (Quote by Paul S. Kedrosky, a professor at UCSD.) More