A Sampling of Clips for 
September 5 - 8, 2003

* UCSD faculty and staff may obtain a copy of an article by e-mailing the University Communications Office

An In-Depth Look at Autism
CNN, Sept. 7-Autism is a brain development disorder that can range from moderate to severe and can cause children to have poor social skills, unusual styles of communication, and repetitive behaviors. As more and more children are being diagnosed with the disorder, doctors struggle to find a cure. Recent research conducted at University of California, San Diego, found that while children with autism have smaller heads at birth than normal children, accelerated growth within the first few months of life results in a far larger than normal brain size in 90 percent of autistic children.
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Homeownership 101 College Kids are Landlords, Thanks to Mom and Dad
USA Today, Sept. 8- Students with a little help from Mom and Dad -- are combining academics with the real-world responsibilities of mortgage payments and home repair. The houses -- sometimes called "kiddie condos" -- are turning college students into landlords who collect rent rather than pay it. At the University of California, San Diego, about 700 students -- 3% of the school's enrollment -- own their homes, a recent survey found.
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Cradle of Invention
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 6-Relying on advice from a how-to book, two UC San Diego scientists, Howard Birndorf and Ted Greene, started a company in the late 1970s called Hybritech Inc. -- and ignited a local biotech boom. Although their company no longer exists, it transformed the commerce of the San Diego region, which now ranks as the nation's third-largest biotech center, behind San Francisco and Boston.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-sdbiotech6sep06,1,3218188.story

GeneAlert ... from UPI
United Press International, Sept. 5-Researchers have discovered a second site for a gene or genes that cause Joubert syndrome. Investigators from the University of California, San Diego, identified the site on chromosome 11 after focusing on three Middle Eastern families whose relatives had intermarried and passed the genetic defect to several family members.
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New Clues to Lethal Strep Meningitis
United Press International, Sept. 3- A new study sheds light on the disease bacterial meningitis, an often deadly swelling of the brain from bacterial infection. Scientists at the University of California-San Diego discovered how strep bacteria are able to penetrate the defensive membrane -- called the "blood-brain" barrier -- around the brain, and how the resulting infection provoked acute swelling.
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GOP Hopeful Gains Notice in Recall Race
Associated Press, Sept. 5-Tom McClintock has always seethed with a passion for cutting government spending and limiting taxes and most feel his conservative positions aren't likely to be popular with most voters. But in a recent poll, McClintock is catching up with Bustamante and Schwarzenegger. (Quote by Daniel Hallin, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego.)
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News Summaries
City New Service, Sept. 3- UC San Diego physicians may be a step closer to prenatal diagnosis of a genetic disorder that affects an area of the brain controlling balance and coordination, the university said today. Doctors at UCSD's School of Medicine say they have identified a specific chromosome as a site for a gene or genes that cause Joubert syndrome, a disorder that affects one in 30,000 people.
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Cream Rising to Top as Injury Treatment
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 8- Transdermal anti-inflammatories in topical creams, directly delivered to the site of a sports injury or overused muscle, may represent the next generation of pain relief. A manufacturer-sponsored trial undertaken at UCSD and published in the July issue of the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine supports both the efficacy and safety of one of the new creams: ketoprofen.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/mon/currents/news_1c8fit.html

`Unknown' Governor Candidates Gather in Alameda
San Jose Mercury News, Aug. 30-A contingent of some of the more obscure names in the race for governor gathered in Alameda today for a day-long meeting to send a unified message to voters: Arnold isn't the only one. Some candidates, like Daniel Watts, a 21-year-old political science student at the University of California, San Diego, said they really have no chance of winning, but simply want to call attention to their concerns. A recent 30 percent spike in fees at his school prompted the South San Jose resident to run.
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/6658952.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

Technology, Cost Cutting Giving Scientists Options for Testing; Cell Cultures, Gene Chips, Databases Among Alternatives
San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 7-New technology and the drive to cut research costs could do as much to reduce animal testing in the United States as the intense animal-rights protests that hit Chiron this summer. The UC system reflects the gradual trend toward reduced animal use. Medical students starting at UC San Diego this fall are part of the first class whose core curriculum does not include training exercises on live dogs.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/07/MN140846.DTL

Scientists Spot 'Serengetis' of the Sea
United Press International, Sept. 5- Scientists who earlier exposed a 90-percent plunge in the world population of large ocean fish now have uncovered pockets of subtropical waters that still teem with diverse wildlife and may hold the solution to sustaining a healthy state of the seas. (Quote by Paul Dayton, a marine ecologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
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Forget Manufacturing Slump, America is Entering Creative Age
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 7- As some 3.3 million service jobs move out of the United States over the next 10 to 15 years, some economists believe that this will improve the profits and efficiency of American corporations and set the stage for the next big growth-generating breakthrough, the "Creative Age." Today, the demand for creativity has outpaced our nation's ability to create enough workers simply to meet our needs and many are looking for ways to produce more creative people, including UCSD whose new Sixth College will focus on art, culture and technology.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/opinion/news_mz1e7creativ.html

Overwhelmed and Under-Equipped; Latino Immigrants Whose Children Have Autism Struggle to Find Care and Support
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 7- Autism is a lifelong disability that is challenging to any family. But when that family is composed of immigrants -- many of whom don't speak English, are poor and lack education -- the burden is overwhelming. San Diego has become a hub for studying the disease, with research being conducted at the Center for Autism Research at Children's Hospital San Diego and at UCSD.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20030907-9999_1c7autism.html

Latinos Hail Signing of Driver License Bill
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 6-Latinos across the state yesterday celebrated as Gov. Gray Davis signed a law that will allow as many as 2 million illegal immigrants to obtain driver licenses. (Quote by Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sat/news/news_2n6license.html

UC Turns Away 1,500 Community College Applications
California Aggie, Sept. 8- The University of California will not consider the winter 2004 transfer applications of approximately 1,500 California community college students, nor the applications of 100 high school graduates. As a result, the university announced Tuesday that it will refund fees for each applicant. UC San Diego only accepted students with guaranteed transfers.
http://www.californiaaggie.com/_articles/7586.taf

How the Other Half Lives: Marine Microbes Capture the Limelight
Genome News Network, Sept. 5- Half of the world's oxygen supply is produced by tiny microbes that live in the sea, and researchers sequencing their genomes have turned up some surprising results. A group of researchers, led by Brian Palenik at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, sequenced a species, called Synechococcus WH8102, which was isolated about 25 years ago.
http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/09_03/ocean.shtml

San Diego Campuses Try to Stem File-Sharing Tide
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 8- The Recording Industry Association of America has made it clear that despite amnesty for some, it will continue to file lawsuits against individuals who illegally download and share copyrighted files. At UCSD, an estimated 6,500 undergrads living in resident housing will receive a letter about proper use of their university-sponsored Internet connections. (Quote by Anthony Wood, director of academic computing services at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/mon/business/news_mz1b8choney.html

Dean Rides Wave of Democrats' Anger; But Will Undertow Sink Party at the Polls?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Sept. 7-The rise of presidential prospect Howard Dean has made vivid the depth of anger over the Bush presidency among hard-core Democratic voters. It has also posed this question: Is that anger healthy or unhealthy for Democrats? (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego.)
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Woodpecker Loses a Level of Protection
St. Petersburg Times, Sept. 4-Despite objections from woodpecker experts and environmental activists, a sharply divided state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted Wednesday to ease protection for the bird. (Quote by Russell Lande, a biology professor at University of California at San Diego.)
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/index.html?ts=1063038628

Mister Apec?; A Secretary-General Could Guide Regional Forum to Make Quick
The Straits Times (Singapore), Sept. 6-Asia-Pacific economies need to make decisions and implement them fast. Very often, a simple decision is stalled for months by one dissident member economy. It is this lack of institutionalized mechanism that prompted Prof Feinberg, Director of the Apec Study Centre at the University of California, San Diego, to suggest that the grouping's secretariat be strengthened.
* No link available online.

Indians' College Numbers Grow by Degrees
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 8- For decades, American Indians have consistently composed the smallest fraction of college students in San Diego County and nationwide, usually less than 1 percent. At UCSD, American Indian undergraduate enrollment fell from 127 a decade ago to 91 last year. For American Indians, the long-term consequence of the low figures can be stifling, especially as they evolve and become more interactive with the outside world.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/mon/news/news_1n8native.html

Something 'From the Heart' to Mark 9/11
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 7- Less than two weeks before Sept. 11, 2001, dance maker and UCSD tenured professor Allyson Green had left New York, to take a faculty job at San Diego State University. Some friends were killed at the site of the World Trade Center, and like so many artists, Green felt compelled to choreograph something in response to the terrible events of that day.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/arts/news_1a7depoyen.html

Swimming with the Fishes
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 5- Sara Steinhoffer, who works in UCSD's public affairs department and has been a competitive swimmer from age 5, will squeeze into her cap and swim in Sunday's La Jolla Rough Water Swim, entering the women's 1-mile masters race.
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Family; For the Fridge
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 6- Monday marks the opening of the Etch-A-Sketch Exhibit at UCSD. Through Oct. 13, the exhibit cases on the lower level of Geisel Library will feature the '60s toy, still the most popular drawing toy made.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sat/currents/news_mz1c6fridge.html