A Sampling of Clips for
February 7th, 2007
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Reports on Global Warming Lag Behind the Science
The Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 7 -- The problem: Climate science is moving too quickly for the ponderous reporting system to keep up, they argue. Besides receiving a written consensus once every six years, policymakers need some form of interim report to keep abreast of the science of global warming and make important decisions, they add. (Quotes Richard Somerville, a theoretical meteorologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More
Billionaire Earnest Rady, Wife Attacked in Home Robbery
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 7 -- A gunman pretended to be making a delivery to the home of billionaire businessman Ernest Rady Tuesday only to then tie up the homeowners and a maid with duct tape and ransack the house, police said. Rady, a financial services and real estate magnate, made a $60 million donation last year to Children's Hospital, which then took on his name. He helped found Rady School of Management at UCSD in 2004 with a
$30 million donation. More
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Beyond the DNA: Chemical Signatures
Reveal Genetic Switches in the Genome
Innovations Report, Feb. 7 -- Investigators from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) and the UCSD School of Medicine have made a breakthrough in identifying functional elements in the human genome, according to a report published online today in Nature Genetics. MoreEarth's
Status Beyond Dire
The Detroit New, Feb. 7 -- A landmark report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released last week warned that there is so much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that even if concentrations could be held at current levels, the effects would continue for centuries. Stabilizing atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide would require reducing CO2 emissions 70 percent to 80 percent, said Richard Somerville, a theoretical meteorologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. More
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Defense Dollars Pack a Wallop in Region
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 7 -- Defense spending in San Diego County increased 49.3 percent in the three years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, pumping almost $11.7 billion into the local economy in 2004, according to a report released yesterday. The 54-page report was intended to quantify the military component of the local economy, said Ruben Barrales, chief executive of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, which commissioned the study. (Article mentions UCSD IR/PS graduate student-based consulting group) More
Drawing Lessons from California
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 7 -- Recently, a group of senior Australian politicians, editors, business and university leaders spent time at two of the great Californian research institutions: UC San Diego and Stanford University. The Australian delegation was visiting the West Coast as part of the annual Australia-America Leadership Dialogue. Inaugurated in 1993 but held this year for the first time outside Washington, D.C., the dialogue brings together in a bipartisan spirit senior policy-makers from both countries to discuss issues of mutual interest. More