A Sampling of Clips for
April
27 - 29, 2002
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Weather
forecast: Wait
Los
Angeles Times, Science
File, April
29, Pg. 14 – A mild El Nino is predicted for the coming winter
and next spring according to David
Pierce, a programmer analyst at the Climate Research
division at the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-000030414apr29.story
On
a mission to heal Baja’s poor
San
Diego Union Tribune, April
28 – Samuel Autman profiles the Flying Samaritans, a group of UCSD
students who travel to Ensenada to provide free medical care.
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Subatomic
physicist Oreste Piccioni
Washington
Post, April
29, Pg. B04 – Oreste Piccioni,
a retired UCSD
physics professor renowned for his pioneering research in the
elementary constituents of matter, died April 13 at the age of 86.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64808-2002Apr28.html
Similar
article appeared in:
New
York Times, April
27
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Technologists
question I.B.M. move
New
York Times, April
29 – Technologists question I.B.M.’s selling much of its
magnetic disk data storage to Hitachi. (Quotes UCSD
Information Storage Industry Center project scientist David
Mckendrick).
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San
Diego is stuck on the wings of a dilemma
Los
Angeles Times, April
27, Pg. 1 –San Diego County Regional Airport Authority officials
are working to find a new airport location to either replace or
supplement Lindbergh Field. (Quotes UCSD political
scientist Steve Erie).
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-000029872apr27.story
Change
comes to revived City Heights
San
Diego Union Tribune, Richard
Louv column, April 28 – Richard Louv discusses UCSD
doctoral candidate Maria
Martinez-Cosio’s study
of the City Heights redevelopment effort.
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Tribal
Transformation
San
Diego Union Tribune, April 28 – Several Southern
California Indian reservations now have high-speed Internet
hookups thanks to several grant-funded projects. UCSD’s San
Diego Supercomputer Center is linked to three North County
reservations.
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It’s
a shame fine UCSD actors must leave
San
Diego Union Tribune, Theater
Scene, April 28, Pg. F-5 –Feature on the UCSD
New Play Festival. (Mentions UCSD
theatre professor Kyle Donnelly).
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Tailor
diet, exercise to metabolism
Copley
News Service, April
29 – Feature on fitness expert Philip Goglia. (Quotes Annamarie
Bezzerides,
associate director of development at UCSD).
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Powell
smashes U.S. discus record in meet at UCSD
San
Diego Union Tribune, April
28 – UCSD discus
thrower Suzy Powell obliterated
the 16-year-old American record at Saturday’s UCSD
Invitational.
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