A Sampling of Clips for 
September 18 - 20, 2004

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MIT Honors Young UCSD Scientists
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 20-Three scientists at UCSD have been named among the world's 100 top young researchers by Technology Review, a national magazine published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The annual honor recognizes people under 35 who advance technology in biotechnology, medicine, computing, nanotechnology and other fields. The University of California, San Diego scientists are: Jamie Link, Lei Wang, and Serge Belongie. (Quote by UCSD's Chancellor, Marye Anne Fox.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040920-9999-1m20mit.html

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North County Times, Sept. 20
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/09/20/news/
sandiego/21_14_549_19_04.txt

Sextuplets Born in San Diego County
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 18-A 40-member team of doctors and nurses at UC San Diego Medical Center delivered sextuplets believed to be the first set in San Diego County and the 12th surviving set in the nation, the university said. (Quote by Leslie Franz, director of health sciences communications at UCSD.)
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Sextuplets Being Closely Monitored
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 18-The sextuplets born prematurely at UCSD Medical Center on Wednesday remained in stable condition yesterday, health officials said. (Quote by Neil Finer M.D., director of neonatology at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040918-9999-7m18briefs.html

Wireless World: 'Fiction' of Telecom Rules
United Press International, Sept. 17-Technology entrepreneurs are creating a continual array of new technologies, from wireless-fidelity networks to high-speed Internet, for mobile consumers and business people, none of which were envisioned only a decade ago. The problem is, the federal government's rules for telecom technology -- first written in the 1930s and revised about 10 years ago -- have not kept pace with these dramatic technological changes. One new innovation that debuted this past spring is Wi-Fi service for commuters at the University of California, San Diego, called the Cyber Shuttle, which gives travelers access to high-speed Internet while they ride to and from campus.
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/enews/articles/2004/09_20_wireless.asp

Scientists Shed Light on Mechanism Behind Beneficial Effects of Red Wine
Innovations Report, Sept. 19-Scientists are a step closer to understanding the health benefits of drinking red wine. Researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and affiliated with the Salk Institute in San Diego, Calif., have succeeded in converting chalcone synthase, a biosynthetic protein enzyme found in all higher plants, into an efficient resveratrol synthase. (Refers to research conducted by Michael Austin, a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/biowissenschaften_chemie/bericht-33733.html

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Medical News Today, Sept. 19
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=13615#

News-Medical, Sept. 19
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=4906

Copley News, Sept. 20
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/enews/articles/2004/09_20_nih.asp

Humans Not Irrational, Just Wary
Medical News Today, Sept. 18-Psychologists often conclude from research subjects' behavior in psychological experiments that humans are irrational. New research indicates that humans are in fact quite rational; they just do not trust what people in lab coats tell them. The research by Vanderbilt University computer scientist David Noelle and University of California, San Diego psychologists Craig McKenzie and John Wixted is published in the September issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=13622#

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News-Medical, Sept. 18
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=4890

Record Donation for Michigan School
Financial Times (London, England), Sept. 20-Yet another US business school has received a sizeable windfall. This time it is the turn of the University of Michigan Business School, which has been given a $100 million dollar donation by property developer Stephen Ross - the largest gift ever made to a US business school. Earlier this year several US schools were the recipients of large donations, including the University of California, San Diego, which received a donation of $30 million from Ernest Rady, a property investor.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/db8035ce-0aa1-11d9-a415-00000e2511c8.html

The Arctic: Earth's Early Warning System
Environment News Service, Sept. 19-An Arctic native leader offered a passionate plea to the U.S. government and its citizens Wednesday to aggressively combat climate change. Addressing a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on global warming, Inuit Circumpolar Conference Chair Sheila Watt-Cloutier said the Inuit are already suffering dramatic changes to their Arctic environment. (Refers to research conducted by Daniel Cayan, a research meteorologist with Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/19930/

Many Reasons Why San Diego Wired at No. 1
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 20-Yet another study has proclaimed San Diego as the most wired place in the country in terms of the number of Web surfers who use high-speed versus dial-up connections to the Internet. That finding came from Nielsen//NetRatings last week, and from comScore Networks last spring. (Mentions the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library website.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/choney/20040920-9999-mz1b20choney.html

'Oranges' Gets Juiced Up in an Avant-Garde Staging at Playhouse
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 19-Romanian guest artist Nona Ciobanu directs her fanciful production of Carlo Gozzi's fairy tale, "The Love of Three Oranges," at UCSD's La Jolla Playhouse.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040919-9999-1a19oranges.html

Dancing on the Edge
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 19-The University of California, San Diego is mentioned in Kevin Starr's latest book in a series about California history. The 20th century safely behind us, Kevin Starr's account of the 1990s represents a rueful reminder to how bad things were in California not so long ago.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040919/news_lz1v18coast.html