A Sampling of Clips for December 20 - 21, 2001
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Alarm at spread of drug-resistant Aids
The Guardian (London) Dec. 20, Pg. 6 -- More than three-quarters of US patients with the Aids virus may be developing resistance to one or more of their drugs within three years of starting treatment, new research says. (Comments by Douglas Richman, of the Veteran's Administration hospital and University of California, San Diego).

Searching for the building blocks of life
The San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 20, Pg. A8 -- Of all the scenarios for the origins of life on Earth, one of the most persuasive is the theory that many of the chemicals essential for living organisms came here aboard asteroids or comets crashing in from distant space when the planet was young. (Mentions research by University of California at San Diego led by Jeffrey Bada and Daniel Glavin).

Sugar compounds found in meteorites
The Associated Press, Dec. 20 -- (Quotes Jeffrey Bada, a professor at the University of California at San Diego).

Sugar found on meteorites that hit the Earth
National Public Radio (NPR), Dec. 19 -- Interview with Jeffrey Bada, a professor at the University of California at San Diego

Why California students can't flunk science
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 21 -- Editorial by Mark H. Thiemens dean of the Division of Physical Sciences at the University of California San Diego.

CA18: Pellosi Withdraws Support For Condit
The Bulletin's Frontrunner, Dec. 20 -- Rep. Nancy Pelosi.withdrew her endorsement Thursday of embattled Rep. Gary Condit's re-election bid. (Comments by Gary Jacobson, a political scientist and elections specialist at the University of California, San Diego).

If Condit loses primary, he'll be in rare company
Scripps Howard News Service, Dec. 19 -- (Comments by Gary Jacobson, a political scientist and elections specialist at the University of California, San Diego).

Lab test developed
San Diego Daily Transcript, Dec.18 -- Researchers in University of California, San Diego's School of Medicine and VA San Diego Healthcare System have reportedly developed a laboratory test that measures the molecular components involved when HIV infects a normal cell.

Advisory panel appointed
San Diego Daily Transcript, Dec.18 -- Three San Diego executives have reportedly been named to the state Food Biotechnology Advisory Committee. (One of them is Maarten Chrispeels, of UCSD's Center for Molecular Agriculture).

UCSD Wins Approval for Medical Marijuana Studies
San Diego Business Journal, Dec. 10-16 -- UCSD recently won Drug Enforcement Administration approval to start two clinical studies evaluating smoked marijuana as a pain-management treatment for HIV and multiple sclerosis patients.

Here comes the rain
New Scientist, Dec. 22, Pg. 11 -- Even just a degree or two of greenhouse warming will have a dramatic impact on water resources across western North America. (Cites Iris Stewart, a climate researcher at the University of California, San Diego).

For superstitious Asians, number four really can cause death
Agence France Presse, Dec. 21 -- Sociologists and mathematicians at the University of California at San Diego found that among Chinese- and Japanese-Americans with chronic heart disease, there is up to a 50-percent higher risk of dying on the fourth day of the month than on other days.

San Diegans should hold themselves in awe these days
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 21, Neil Morgan -- When epochal successes abound among us, as they do now, on San Diego campuses and in laboratories and think tanks around this county, we seem too often to be the last to notice or understand them. (Mentions Inder Verma, Bob Dynes and UCSD).