A Sampling of Clips for 
August 11, 2006

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Will Oil History Repeat Itself?
The Wall Street Journal, August 10 -- The Online Journal asked energy economists James Hamilton, of UCSD, and Stephen Brown, of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, to discuss why high oil prices haven't choked off economic growth. More

At ZeroOne, Paintings Are So Last Century
The New York Times, August 6 -- The release of the homing pigeons is one of the most highly anticipated events scheduled for ZeroOne, a new weeklong citywide festival of exhibitions, interventions, performances and talks by artists working with technology. As with the pigeon blog, several of the artists are tapping into the power of cellular networks and phones to create highly mobile and interactive projects. (Quotes Adriene Jenik, who teaches computer and media arts at UCSD and is showing one of her works at the festival). More

Humble Ingredients for a Deadly Purpose
Los Angeles Times, August 11 -- It has been terrorists' dark pursuit for decades, requiring knowledge so accessible that a Google search turns up the necessary instructions. The government has spent more than $100 million researching ways to detect the myriad components of liquid explosives, but there is no equipment ready to deploy in airports. Some experts say there will never be a foolproof solution. (Mentions Marye Anne Fox, UCSD Chancellor) More

Nightly Nativism
The Nation, August 28 -- These days, CNN, the network once pilloried by conservatives as a leading voice of the "liberal media" is offering an expansive platform to the nation's leading spokesman for anti-immigration hardliners, Lou Dobbs. Night after night, under the rousing headline "Broken Borders," the distinguished-looking 61-year-old instructs his growing audience that illegal immigrants import deadly diseases, rampant crime and international terrorism; they live off welfare, destroy public schools and burden hospitals; what's more, most haven't even learned to speak English. (Quotes Wayne Cornelius, a political science professor and director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UCSD) More

Political Scientists' Renewed
Interest in the Workings of Power
Chronicle of Higher Education, August 11 -- This coming Labor Day weekend, at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia, some fraction of the 7,000 or so political scientists in attendance will respond to the conference theme of "Power Reconsidered." (Mentions research by UCSD’s Gary W. Cox and Mathew D. McCubbins) More

The Arts & Academe
Chronicle of Higher Education, August 11 -- When Jack L. Becker started Public Art Review in 1989, it was to promote a type of art that was paradoxically both ubiquitous and invisible. Public art was "all around us," he says, yet discussions of the best ways to make and display it were conspicuously absent from academe. The latest issue of Public Art Review, dedicated to "art on campus," shows that a lot can change in 17 years. (Mentions the Snake Path
at UCSD) More

Playhouse, Opera Get $1.3 Million in Grants
San Diego Union-Tribune, August 11 -- La Jolla Playhouse and San Diego Opera have received James Irvine Foundations grants totaling $1.3 million. The Playhouse's $700,000 award is to develop a production and an audience-development model for new theater work. The opera's $600,000 grant is to “engage new audiences and deepen the participation of traditional opera attendees through relationship marketing and enhanced theatricality.” More

Daughter's Death Sends Mother on Quest
San Diego Union-Tribune, August 11 -- Debbie Schimizu's painful loss motivated her lifetime of giving.  The Carmel Valley resident is one of the organizers and the driving force behind an annual golf tournament that raises money for mitochondrial disease research. The eighth annual UCSD Christini Fund Golf Tournament will be Sept. 25 at the
Del Mar Country Club. All proceeds benefit mitochondrial disease research. More

Researchers Look to
Sea Floor as Source of New Antibiotics
The Paramus Post, August 11 -- The bottom of the ocean
can be a dark, cold and muddy place, but this forbidding environment could hold life-saving antibiotics derived from organisms that scientists have never seen. Now UCSD will undertake an ambitious effort to fast-track the process of discovering new compounds from the sea floor to turn them into antibiotics. More

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