A Sampling of Clips for 
August 31, 2006

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Top Scientist Lured by US Riches
The Australian, Aug. 31 -- Marine chemist Tony Haymet, CSIRO science and policy director, has been appointed to a trio of prestigious positions at UCSD. Dr Haymet is expected to move to California in September where he'll become vice chancellor for Marine Sciences, director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and dean of the Graduate School of Marine Sciences. More

GOP Candidates Keep
Bush Out of the Picture
San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 31 -- President Bush has become the invisible man of the Republican Party's effort to keep control of the House and Senate in November's midterm elections. Bush's popularity has been weighed down by the war in Iraq, high gas prices, economic anxieties and lingering memories of last August's Hurricane Katrina. (Quotes Gary Jacobson, a political scientist at UCSD). More

Selection of School no Factor in Scores
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 31 -- Every year, thousands of parents in San Diego take advantage of programs in the public school system that allow them to hand-pick their child's campus. But as popular as choice programs are, they have little or no effect on test scores, according to a new study from the Public Policy Institute of California, an independent nonprofit research organization. (Quotes Julian Betts, an economics professor at UCSD) More

Did Somebody Say Recall?
San Diego CityBeat, Aug. 30 -- The U.S. Attorney has indicted five officials associated with the city’s employee-retirement system. But the City Council appears safe. Do San Diegans have any say here at all? Yep. For in the state of California, there can be recall elections, and someone’s considering forcing one here in town. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Steve Erie) More

Surf's Up -- and One
Coastal Microbe Has Adapted
Innovations Report, Aug. 31 -- In a study in this week's early online edition of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at The Institute for Genomic Research and Scripps Institution of Oceanography have sequenced the cyanobacterium's genome--and found that this coastal dweller has adapted to a turbulent environment by learning to use metals in ways that its open-ocean relatives cannot. More

University Puts Wireless
to Test in Mock Terrorist Attack
Network World, Aug. 30 -- UCSD researchers last week got a chance to test out a host of network technologies on something they hope it will never really have to be used for: a terrorist attack. Operation College Freedom drill involved a coordinated effort by the school and local emergency and law-enforcement officials to respond to a simulated terrorist attack. More

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