A Sampling of Clips for
September 27th, 2007
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Candidates Collect Cash Using Variety of Methods
USA Today, Sept. 27 -- Presidential campaigns are employing a wide range of money-raising strategies as they race to fill coffers before Sunday's deadline for third-quarter donations. Though the first votes in the 2008 contest won't be cast for more than three months, the money totals are one measure of candidates' organizational strength and support among the party faithful. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Gary Jacobson) More
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Clear Thinker
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 27 -- In a darkened laboratory on the UCSD campus, Mark Thiemens peers intently into the blue flame of a blowtorch, directing its fierce, fusing heat at the glowing orange ends of two glass tubes, each a piece of a larger latticework of interconnected beakers, flasks and bulbs. More
UCSD Term Opens Today with Record Enrollment
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 27 -- A record 27,500 UCSD students are expected on campus this week as fall quarter classes begin today. Students will find several new buildings and some changes, including the $78 million East Campus Graduate Housing project, which accommodates 806 graduate students. A new $30 million Hopkins Parking Structure, with 1,406 spaces, has opened on the north end of campus. More
Vanishing Ice Worries West
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 27 -- The Arctic Ocean is more than 3,000 miles from Southern California, but the rapid disappearance of sea ice at the top of the world could be altering weather patterns down here. (Quotes Tim Barnett, a researcher at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More
Blue Whale Requiem
L.A. Weekly, Sept. 26 -- How does a blue whale — a mammal whose powers of echolocation allow it to accurately map an ocean — get struck by a ship whose propeller is so loud, says marine mammal expert Marsha Green, “you can hear it underwater when it’s still three days away”? (Mentions research by John Hildebrand and Sean Wiggins of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD) More
No Such Thing as Soft Debt
San Diego Reader, Sept. 26 -- Several experts worry that the City is going back to the dysfunctional days of yore. The City should consider all of its debt obligations as, essentially, hard debt -- something that has to be paid, no matter what. Thinking otherwise got the City in the big trouble it's now in. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Steve Erie) More