A Sampling of Clips for September 14^th, 2009

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Is Happiness Catching?
New York Times Magazine, Sept. 10 – Eileen Belloli keeps very good track of her friends. Belloli, who is 74, was born in Framingham, Mass., which is where she met her future husband, Joseph, when they were both toddlers. (“I tripped her and made her cry,” recalls Joseph, a laconic and beanpole-tall 76-year-old.) (Quotes UCSD political Science professor James Fowler) More

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Groundbreaking Planned for Two Research Facilities
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 14 -- Top federal officials will attend a groundbreaking ceremony tomorrow for two research facilities at UCSD. U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke will be a guest at the event, which will mark the official start of construction for the Southwest Fisheries Science Center Laboratory and the Marine Ecosystem Sensing, Observation and Modeling Laboratory. More

U.S. Cost-Saving Policy Forces New Kidney Transplant
New York Times, Sept. 13 -- Melissa J. Whitaker has one very compelling reason to keep up with the health care legislation being written in Washington: her second transplanted kidney. The story of Ms. Whitaker’s two organ donations — the first from her mother and the second from her boyfriend — sheds light on a Medicare policy that is widely regarded as pound-foolish. Although the government regularly pays $100,000 or more for kidney transplants, it stops paying for anti-rejection drugs after only 36 months. (Mentions UCSD) More

Hitting Where it Hurts
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 14 -- Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Alan Bersin — the so-called “Border Czar” — was back in the old neighborhood last week to visit the U.S.-Mexico border and address an audience at the Institute of the Americas at UCSD. The former United States attorney in San Diego played a big role in increasing border security in the 1990s by helping to implement “Operation Gatekeeper” along the U.S.-Mexico border. More

Cullom Does it Again in La Jolla
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 14 -- Unlike last year, defending champion Deni Cullom faced especially choppy conditions and a field augmented by a world record holder in the 79th La Jolla Rough Water Swim. Just like last year, the Dana Point teenager scored a victory for youth in the three-mile Gatorman race, prevailing by five seconds over five-time champ Alex Kostich in an encore 1-2 finish off La Jolla Cove yesterday. (Quotes Corrie Falcon, an assistant swim coach at UCSD) More

NASA Astronaut Returns to Her Mountain View High School for Rally, Talks
Santa Cruz Sentinel, Sept. 11 -- At noon on Friday a couple dozen students sat in the gym at Saint Francis High School in Mountain View. Some talked quietly as they waited for NASA astronaut Megan McArthur to arrive for a Q&A session, but several girls could barely contain themselves. McArthur holds a Ph.D in oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD. More

$115 Million Project Aims to Catalog Microbes
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 14 -- Scientists are beginning a large-scale effort to identify and analyze the vast majority of cells in or on your body that aren't of human origin. Only about 10 percent of the trillions of cells that make up a person are truly human, researchers say. The other 90 percent are bacteria, viruses and other microbes swarming in your gut and on your skin. (Mentions UCSD) More

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