A Sampling of Clips for 
February 16-20, 2002

Bone-drug study finds heart benefit
USA Today, Feb. 20 – UCSD professor Elizabeth Barrett-Connor was the 
principal investigator for a study that found that raloxifene, an estrogen alternative drug used to fight osteoporosis, also reduced the risk of a coronary event.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/healthscience/health/heart/2002-02-20-bone-drug.htm
Similar article appeared in:
Drug for osteoporosis found to reduce heart attack risk
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 20
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/wed/metro/news_7m20hormones.html 

Study links 8 hours’ sleep to shorter life span
The Washington Post, Feb. 15 – A study led by UCSD professor Daniel Kripke suggests that adults who sleep six or seven hours a night live longer, and those who sleep eight hours or more die younger. 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12305-2002Feb14.html 
Similar articles appeared in:
Study”  People who sleep less might live longer
USA Today, Feb 18
http://www.usatoday.com/news/healthscience/health/2002-02-15-ideal-sleep.htm

An explosive chip discovery
Information Week, Feb. 18 – UCSD scientists’ discovery may lead to 
self-destructing computers. (Quotes UCSD professor Michael Sailor and 
cites findings by UCSD researchers in the January issue of Advanced Materials, a scientific journal in Germany).
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Weather predictions are up in the air and in the sea
San Diego Union Tribune, Feb. 20 – Article discusses long-range weather 
forecasts. Quotes Dan Cyan director of the Climate Research Division of the 
Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_1c20weather.html

Science: Human ability not out front
Washington Post, Feb. 18 – In an article being published in the journal 
Nature Neuroscience,  Katerina Semendeferi of the University of California, San Diego and colleagues discuss brain scans conducted on 15 great apes, 
as compared to humans and other primates.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26150-2002Feb17.html

As if in the stars, ‘Tania’ merges with the news
San Diego Union Tribune, Feb. 17 Arts/Entertainment – Articles profiles the opera “Tania” composed by UCSD professor Anthony Davis.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/arts/news_1a17varga.html

Hollywood goes to college to woo editors
San Diego Union Tribune, Feb. 17 – Arts feature discusses Hollywood trend-
hiring college and university editors as movie consultants to reach college-age 
audiences.  Quotes UCSD Guardian editor Charlie Tan.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/arts/news_1a17college.html

China Emulates some U.S. values – good and bad
USA Today, Feb. 20 – Editorial written by UCSD professor of Sociology Richard Madsen.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/comment/2002/02/20/ncguest1.htm

A predator or a scavenger?  T. Rex exhibit lets you decide
San Diego Union Tribune, Feb. 16 -  In conjunction with a new interactive 
exhibit at the San Diego Natural History Museum, teams from SanDiego State 
University and UCSD will debate whether the T. Rex was a scavenger or a predator.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sat/metro/news_2m16trex.html

‘Star’ Shines in Solana Beach
San Diego Union Tribune, Feb 15 – ‘Star,’ a tiled sculpture created by La Jolla artist Niki de Saint Phalle, whose other works include the ‘Sun God’ at UCSD, was installed near the Solana Beach train station. The piece is on loan from its creator for the next two years.
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Captain C. A. Guthrie; a can-do force in museum expansion
San Diego Union Tribune, Feb 15 Obituary – Cancer claims UCSD Board of 
Overseers member Charles A. Guthrie.
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UCSD researcher learning the buzzwords of beespeak
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 18 – UCSD biologist James C. Nieh is cracking codes of stingless bees’ communication, reviving an area of scientific inquiry that had been dormant for some time: how the insects use a complex language of dance and sound.
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/mon/metro/news_1m18bees.html

An explosive chip discovery
North County Times, Feb. 17 – UCSD scientists’ discovery may lead to 
self-destructing computers. (Quotes UCSD professor Michael Sailor and sites 
findings by UCSD researchers in the January issue of Advanced Materials, a 
scientific journal in Germany).
http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20020217/61340.html

Giant underwater waves churn waters found off Hawaii
San Francisco Gate, Feb. 14 – Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers Daniel Rudnick and Robert Pinkel reported the latest studies of the Pacific at the annual Ocean Sciences meeting.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/02/14/state
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