A Sampling of Clips for
August 3, 2006
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Immigration Debate
KPBS, Aug. 2—The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee held a hearing on immigration Wednesday in San Diego. Wayne Cornelius, professor of political science and director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UCSD, speaks on KPBS-TV’s Full Focus about his testimony at the hearing. Cornelius expressed the view that efforts to enhance border controls against unauthorized immigrants would actually increase illegal crossings as migrants would resort to other techniques, including an increased use of smugglers, to avoid being caught. (Segment is 1:25 minutes into the program) More
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Statins Could Cause Legal Headaches
Business Week, Aug. 2 – Gerald Ward is one of 19 patients who filed lawsuits against Pfizer in June and July in New York's Supreme Court. The lawsuits allege that Pfizer failed to inform physicians and patients adequately of the risk that Lipitor can cause serious neurological side effects. (Quotes Dr. Beatrice A. Golomb, associate professor of medicine at UCSD and the lead investigator in a study tracking 1,000 patients taking cholesterol-lowering drugs) More
Losing Freedom Bit by Bit
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Aug. 3 -- Although the war in Lebanon and Gaza now dominates the attention of people here in the West Bank, recently while in the Palestinian village of Husan near Bethlehem, I was witness to another type of territorial conflict that in many ways lies at the foundation of the war gripping the region. Recent history has altered the conditions of farming for innumerable Palestinian farmers. (Written by Gary Fields, author of “Territories of Profit,” who teaches in the Department of Communication at UCSD. He is currently in the West Bank interviewing people for his upcoming book on The Wall) More
Weather a Suspect in Mass Sea Urchin
Deaths off Newport
Los Angeles Times, Aug. 3 -- Hundreds of dead or dying purple sea urchins washed up into the Little Corona Marine Life Refuge tide pools in recent days, a phenomenon some officials blame on warmer-than-usual waters. Warmer water also holds less oxygen, potentially causing marine life to suffocate, said Bob Burhans, curator of fish at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. More
Scripps Scientists Studying Global Warming
KFMB, Aug. 2 -- The heat wave across the nation is turning a lot of attention toward global warming. Some experts say it's one of the biggest issues we face. Local scientists are studying ways to reverse and stop the greenhouse effect. Scripps Institution of Oceanography biologist Dr. Nigella Hillgarth is cautious when linking our weather to global warming. More
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California, Britain Sign Climate Pact
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 1 -- Britain and California formed a partnership yesterday to address global warming, bypassing the Bush administration to explore ways to curb greenhouse gas emissions and promote clean-burning fuels. (Quotes Charles Kennel, director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD) More
In Search of the Big Picture
New Scientist, Aug. 5 -- There is nothing new about scientists trying to understand art. Yet there is a dazzling boldness in the ideas being put about today by some prominent neuroscientists. For example, Vilayanur Ramachandran, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at UCSD claims to have discovered "the key to understanding what art really is." More
New Work on Lou Gehrig's Disease
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 3 -- UCSD researchers have demonstrated in animals a new approach toward treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, suggesting that the deadly nervous system disease may someday be treated as a chronic but manageable illness. More
