A Sampling of Clips for 
September 28, 2004

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$50 Oil Probably Won't Cause a Huge Economic Mess
USA Today, Sept. 28-Oil used to be the grim reaper of the economy: When prices spiked, recessions almost always followed. But while oil's passing the
$50 a barrel mark for the first time ever Monday is not exactly welcome news
for consumers and most businesses, high energy costs are no longer the
buzz-kill for the economy they once were. (Quote by James Hamilton, an economics professor at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2004-09-27-oil_x.htm

Artificial Blood
CBS News, Sept. 27-Under an FDA-approved test, in 10 American cities ambulances are carrying something called Polyheme, an artificial substitute for human blood. Normally, ambulances don't carry real blood because it easily spoils, and they use an intravenous saline solution, which restores blood pressure but doesn't carry oxygen. Polyheme does. (Quote by David Hoyt M.D., a professor of surgery at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/enews/articles/2004/09_28_artificial.asp

San Diego Success Stories Become a Challenge for the Midwest
Wisconsin Technology Network, Sept. 27-The Madison-area technology
business community has received a challenge to grow beyond itself. Mary Walshok, an associate vice chancellor with the University of California, San Diego, thinks the area has limitations that lie not with its resources or
industry, but with cultural barriers that encourage a low profile.
http://www.wistechnology.com/article.php?id=1216

Findings Have Implications for Understanding Psychiatric and Neurological Disease that Affect the Hippocampus
News-Medical, Sept. 27-Spatial memory is more vulnerable than object recognition memory when damage occurs in the brain's memory processing center, the hippocampus, according to memory specialists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. (Quote by study co-author Nicola J. Broadbent Ph.D., a post doctoral fellow in the UCSD Department of Psychiatry.) http://www.news-medical.net/?id=5091

Composite Metamaterials Enable 'Perfect Lens'
Electronic Engineering Times, Sept. 27-Composite metamaterials that exhibit
a negative index of refraction are being harnessed to enable a variety of hitherto impossible applications, promising to reduce size and cost while simultaneously increasing accuracy and range. (Refers to research conducted by the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=47902748