A Sampling of Clips for 
September 09, 2004

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America and the Future of Iraq
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Sept. 9-It is presidential campaign season and the biggest issue concerning Americans and the world remains undiscussed. The occupation of Iraq has been, in the words of the president, a "catastrophic success." It is catastrophic in its cost in Iraqi and American lives, money, and American international prestige and credibility. Where do we go from here? What does the future hold for the United States and Iraq? Who will decide? (Article written by Michael Provence, an assistant professor of modern Middle East history at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040909/news_lz1e9provence.html

Pollution Harms Children's Lungs, Says USC Study
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 9-Children who breathe heavily polluted air have stunted lung development compared with those exposed to cleaner air, a finding with worrisome implications for later lung and heart disease, according to a study released today. "We now have the evidence: Pollution is harming children's lungs," said W. James Gauderman, associate professor at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and the report's lead author. (Quote by Douglas Conrad M.D., a lung expert at UCSD Medical Center.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/health/20040909-9999-1n9pollute.html

Alternative Guest: Attendance
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 9-Ambitious and visionary as always, Sledgehammer has connected with the displaced arts posse from Sushi Performance & Visual Art to feed the alternative scene machine. Dance collective Lower Left, Sushi's resident dance group, will fill Sledgehammer Theatre's 2004 "Alternative Guest" spot, an annual wild-card production included in each season. Scheduled to join Lower Left are percussionist and UCSD professor Steven Schick, poet/activist Bennie Herron, vocalist Molly Wilmot and Sledgehammer artists Jessa Watson, Laura Lee Juliano and Ruff Yeager, among others. http://entertainment.signonsandiego.com/profile/272683?cslink=cs_generic_1_0

Undergraduates, Overachiever UCSD Students Vet Research in Scientific Journal
San Diego Daily Transcript, Sept. 8-It's a peer-review scientific journal with a following of several thousand researchers. Articles run the gamut, from neuroligin-induced vesicle clustering to ciliary ganglia neurons. While the end result can be likened to Cell or Nature, the process of compiling the newly minted Saltman Quarterly is a product of its unique environment. The Saltman Quarterly is produced by undergraduate students in the Division of Biological Sciences at University of California, San Diego. While other UCSD departments -- and even other reputable universities such as Harvard, Berkeley and Stanford -- have undergraduate scientific journals, this is a first for UCSD's biology department.
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