A Sampling of Clips for 
August 28, 2006

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Marine Mystery at Shore
Philadelphia Inquirer, Aug. 27 -- Biologists say it is a mystery as to exactly why dozens of marine mammals, some sick and starving, have beached along the mid-Atlantic shoreline this summer in areas opposite where they would normally be found. (Mentions research by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD). More

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A Bumpy Tenure
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 27 -- A member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, University of California President Robert Dynes routinely has described himself as a physicist who happens to be the UC president. But in May, the UC board of regents, which governs UC under the authority of the state constitution, reaffirmed its support for Dynes. (Mentions UCSD). More

Water Signs
San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 27 -- Some scientists look at the interactions between insects and high-elevation plants, others monitor stream flows or study tree rings for clues to how plants responded to previous climate change. Such work adds up to one of the most ambitious scientific undertakings in California's history: an attempt to understand how greenhouse gas emissions are affecting John Muir's beloved Range of Light. (Quotes Michael Dettinger, a climate specialist at the U.S. Geological Survey and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD). More

Money Can Mean a Wealth of Worries
Dallas Morning News, Aug. 27 -- Is more money the key to more happiness? Most of us would like to think so. But researchers say it's not necessarily so. "The belief that high income is associated with good mood is widespread but mostly illusory," researchers at Princeton University, UCSD, the University of Michigan and Stony Brook University wrote for the journal Science. More

Still Awash in Doubt
Sacramento Bee, Aug. 28 -- On New Year's weekend, Barbara Flores went three days without sleep, and not because she was partying. Flores and other anxious residents of Sherman Island, on the western edge of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, spent the opening days of 2006 battling one of the biggest storms they'd ever seen. Waters rose to the crest of the island's levees. Wind-whipped spray from crashing waves blew over the levee in a stinging fusillade, threatening to flood the island. (Quotes Dan Cayan, a climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography). More

UCSD Students Put Together
High-Tech Soda Machine
10News, Aug. 26 -- Inside a secure room on the UCSD campus is a highly sophisticated biometric system -- or what some may refer to as a soda machine. More

Hiring Headache
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 27 -- The use of the H-1B visa to import high-level technology expertise from other countries is an overlooked part of the current immigration debate, lumped together as it is with the issues of low-skilled workers and those who enter the United States illegally. But increasing demand for H-1B visas may push them into the limelight. (Quotes Michael Hindi, director of international students and scholars at UCSD). More