A Sampling of Clips for
April
17, 2002
UCSD
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Office
Enzyme
halts muscle wasting in animal study of childhood muscular
dystrophy
Medical
Industry Today, April
17 – The muscle destruction associated with Duchenne muscular
dystrophy was inhibited after a UCSD
team, led by senior author Paul
Martin, added
an enzyme to skeletal muscles in mice bred to develop DMD.
The results are published in the journal Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences.
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state officials blast panel’s decision on San Diego sewage
Los
Angeles Times, April
17, Pg 7 – Two officials of the Davis administration blasted the
California Coastal Commission’s decision to oppose San Diego’s
bid for a waiver extension from the federal Clean Water Act.
(Mentions Scripps Institution
of Oceanography).
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-000027461apr17.story
County
recommends outside audit of trauma system
North
County Times, April
16 – San Diego County supervisors consider hiring an outside
company to audit the county’s six trauma centers, including the UCSD
Medical Center.
http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20020416/53608.html
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article appeared in:
San
Diego Daily Transcript, April
17
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Derelict board
San
Diego Union Tribune, Opinion,
April 17 – Opinion on the Board of Supervisors
environmental study of its land-use plan for 250,000 acres of
private agricultural land. (Quotes UCSD
biology professor Ted
Case).
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/wed/opinion/news_1ed17top.html
UCSD
student shares her story of Israel
KFMB.com,
April
12 – Feature on Yael Schwarz,
a UCSD student who
participated in the education abroad program in Israel.
http://www.kfmb.com/results.php?storyID=7822&is=y
A
world of connections
San
Diego Union Tribune, April
17 – UCSD students
are tutoring Pala Indian Reservation children with the help of a
high-speed Internet system that connects the outreach
communication center with a computer lab at the Pala Learning
Center. (Quotes director of UCSD’s
early academic outreach program Rafael
Hernandez and university spokesman Michael
Dabney).
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