A Sampling of Clips
for September 12^th, 2008

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A Blueprint for Reforming Japan
Wall Street Journal, Sept. 12 -- Japan is poised to pick its third prime minister in three years. The hope that the "lost decade" of economic growth was over has been shattered as the economy has begun contracting again. Economic anxiety is the leading concern of the Japanese people. Politicians from both the ruling coalition and the opposition are going back to the old playbook and trying to address people's fears by limiting market competition and protecting inefficient sectors. To them economic anxiety is a result of the reform agenda of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's government, which introduced more competition into the economy. (Co-written by Takeo Hoshi, a professor at the UCSD School of International Relations and Pacific Studies) More

Tiny 'Ships' Sail Bloodstream to Destroy Cancer
Yahoo! News, Sept 12 -- Tiny ships loaded with a cargo that can identify and destroy cancerous tumors are being tested on mice and could one day ply the human bloodstream. "These mother ships are only 50 nanometers in diameter, or 1,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair, and are equipped with an array of molecules on their surfaces that enable them to find and penetrate tumor cells in the body," explained biochemist Michael Sailor at UCSD. More

Wholesale Prices Fall, but Shoppers Ain't Buying
MSN Money Central, Sept. 12 -- The US Labor Department says wholesale prices fell 0.9 percent in August, or nearly twice the 0.5 percent decline forecast by many economists. Core inflation, which excludes energy and food, rose 0.2 percent in August, meeting expectations, and below July’s 0.7 percent increase. The Federal Reserve has staked its policy on the belief that prices will moderate in 2008 as economic growth slows. (Mentions UCSD) More

Global Warming is Going to Shrink the World's Species
Yahoo News India, Sept. 12 -- Ecologists have warned that global warming might result in species shrinking in size. According to a report in New Scientist, Kaustuv Roy, a biologist at UCSD, believes that scientists need to think now about how they are going to preserve large species. More

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
KUSI, Sept. 11 -- The Dept. of Defense has awarded the UCSD School of Medicine a $60M grant to study post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Dr. Raul Coimbra of UCSD was in the KUSI studio to talk about the grant and how they plan to use it to study PTSD. More

Chargers' Site Search Entering Terminal Stage
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 11 -- The conceptual art shows a football stadium tucked unobtrusively in the northeast corner of an enormous bayfront platform, a project so stupendous that the cruise ships depicted at anchor could be bathtub toys. A new home for the Chargers or an unpublished excerpt from Sam Coleridge's opium dream? Xanadu or Xanadon't? Come November, you make the call. In denying the Port of San Diego's request for an immediate stay, the Fourth District Court of Appeal yesterday removed the last obstacle to a public vote on a massive waterfront makeover at the 10th Avenue Marine Terminal. (Quotes UCSD political science professor Steve Erie) More

Keeping Carbon Emission to 2005 Levels not Enough
The Times of India, Sept. 12 --Painting a grim picture, a new study shows that even if greenhouse gas emissions are fixed at 2005 levels, irreversible warming will lead to biodiversity loss and substantial glacial melt. The Earth will warm about 2.4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels even under extremely conservative greenhouse-gas emission scenarios and under the assumption that efforts to clean up particulate pollution continue to be successful, an new analysis by a pair of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography show. More

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Residents Trying to Create Arts Council
North County Times, Sept. 11 -- A small group of residents eager to infuse the city with more culture is trying to organize a community arts council that would plan and promote local cultural events and activities. John Lauer said Thursday that he and other arts lovers will meet Monday with representatives of the city's community services department to discuss potential bylaws and a nonprofit structure for the proposed panel. More free concerts like the successful chamber music performance the group organized earlier this year at City Hall, blues festivals and art shows are some of the cultural events the group envisions, he said. (Mentions UCSD) More

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