A Sampling of Clips for
September 17 - 19, 2005
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Q&A:
Marye Anne Fox; Chancellor of UCSD
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 18-Marye
Anne Fox became UCSD's seventh chancellor
in April 2004. A chemist with a distinguished academic record,
her previous posts include chancellor at North Carolina State
Univ. and as Waggoner Regents Chair in Chemistry and Vice President
for Research at the Univ. of Texas at Austin. Fox was interviewed
Sept. 2 by members of the San Diego Union-Tribune's editorial
board. More
Sustaining
the Planet's Future
Voice of San Diego, Opinion, Sept.
17-In the past half century, human beings have transformed Earth
as never before. In the next 50 years, human impact on the environment
will significantly expand due to the substantially increased
consumption of energy and other resources by the nine to 10
billion people expected to inhabit the planet, mostly in developing
countries. (Article written by Charles Kennel,
the ninth director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
More
N. Korea
Seeks End to U.N. Aid
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 19-The U.N.
World Food Program confirmed today that North Korea had asked
it to cease much of its food assistance by the end of November,
but the World Food Program declares its work is still needed.
A recently released report by the U.S. Committee for Human Rights
in North Korea estimated that 10% to 30% of aid is diverted
from the intended recipients. Stephan Haggard,
a professor at UCSD and one of the authors
of the report, said in an interview last week that the North
Koreans preferred aid from South Korea and China because they
do not have to account so closely for it. More
Where There's
Smoke, There's a Star
New York Times, Sept. 18-Images of
stars smoking off-screen were relatively rare five years ago,
but with the proliferation of celebrity magazines and the competition
for candid pictures, more shots of celebrities smoking are being
published and some antismoking groups are starting to voice
their concerns. (Quote by John P. Pierce, director
of the cancer prevention program at the Moores Cancer Center
at UCSD.) More
For Psychiatry,
a Cautionary Tale
Boston Globe, Book Review, Sept. 19-Andrew
Scull, a sociologist at the UCSD who
specializes in the history of psychiatry, has unearthed a Gothic
horror story of abuse in the early 1900s. More
Carnal Knowledge
| Penguin Sex? It's Rather Chilly
Philadelphia Inquirer, Opinion, Sept.
18-The stars of March of the Penguins seem to endure the worst
of all worlds: almost nonexistent sex lives that nonetheless
lead them to parenthood, total self-sacrifice, and endless suffering.
Yet several biologists confirmed what I suspected 15 minutes
into it. March of the Penguins is a fairy tale. (Quote by Gerald
Kooyman, a penguin expert from the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography.) More
UCSD Discovery
May Provide Novel Method to Generate Medically Useful Proteins
Innovations Report, Sept. 19-A team
led by UCSD biochemists has discovered the
mechanism by which a simple organism can produce 10 trillion
varieties of a single protein, a finding that provides a new
tool to develop novel drugs. More
