A Sampling of Clips for 
UCSD E-Clips January 16 - 22, 2002
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Fountains and Bubbles: New Cosmic Mysteries
The New York Times, Jan. 15, F3 -- Two new discoveries described at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society last week in Washington underscored the growing and bewildering realization that planetary systems abound in the nearby universe and that they come in all shapes and sizes, bearing little apparent resemblance to the Sun's family of planets. (Quotes UCSD Dr. Sabine Frink).

New methods yield photos of objects beyond our solar system
The Dallas Morning News, Jan. 15, -- Astronomers may be only a few years away from photographing a planet in another solar system The team, led by Sabine Frink of UCSD, found the planet orbiting Iota Draconis, a star visible just east of the Big Dipper in the morning sky.

An Ear For Color
The Washington Post, Jan. 22, Pg. F01 -- Exploring the curious world of synesthesia, where senses merge in mysterious ways. (Quotes UCSD's director of the Center for Brain and Cognition V.S. Ramachandran).

Scientists find lowest spot on Earth - the Dead Sea - is sinking even lower
The Associated Press, Jan. 15, -- The Dead Sea, already the lowest point on Earth, is sinking even lower. (Quotes professor of geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, David Sandwell).

Self-frying chip may foil mobile thieves
The Guardian (London), Jan. 18, Pg. 6 -- UCSD Chemist Michael Sailor and colleagues stumbled on the Mission Impossible solution ("This message will self-destruct in 10 seconds") when one of them tried to divide a porous silicon chip treated with gadolinium nitrate. 

Exploding stolen computer chips to protect information
Marketplace (6:30 PM ET) - Syndicated - Jan. 18 -- (Laura Sydell interview with UCSD chemistry professor Michael Sailor).

Saggy mice offer clues to aging process
The Dallas Morning News, Jan. 15, -- Scientists have created mice that lack a key protein that makes certain cells and tissues of the body elastic. (Quotes Kenneth Chien of UCSD).

Under observation
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 16 -- Through a National Institutes of Health grant, the UCSD School of Medicine is working with Helix High School to study whether in-classroom lectures and exposure to the work done in labs and examination rooms will interest more of the students, especially underrepresented minorities, in health careers. (Quotes professor of medicine Gerry Boss).

$4.3 million earmarked for hospitals; County shares funds from tobacco suit
The San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 17, Pg. B-10 -- San Diego County government is providing $4.3 million to 19 area hospitals that are grappling with the rising costs of providing emergency medical services. (Lists UCSD Medical Center, UCSD Thornton Hospital).

All Talked Out Already?
Los Angeles Times, Jan. 22, -- People don't seem to be saying much about Sept. 11, but that doesn't mean it's not on their minds. (Quotes UCSD sociologist, Michael Schudson).

Computers try to outthink terrorists
Copley News Service, Jan. 21 -- New computer technology may help identify a needle that doesn't belong in the haystack in border and airport security. (Quotes UCSD professor of computer science Gary Cottrell).

Light or not, still a killer
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Jan. 15, Pg. 1E -- As the Omni cigarettes makes its debut, a new report warns that 'low-tar' cigarettes are no safer than the regular product. (Quotes UCSD, School of Medicine Dr. David Burns).

Forbidden fruit
The Times-Picayune (New Orleans), Jan. 21, Living Pg. 1 -- More than one-third of all food allergy-sufferers in the U.S. are children. For their parents, keeping them healthy requires constant vigilance and no small measure of will power. (Quotes UCSD co-director of the Allergy & Asthma Medical Group and Research Center, Dr. Michael Welch).

Smallpox scourge last swept through S.D. region in 1860s
The San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 14, Pg. B-1 -- More than 20 years after the World Health Organization declared smallpox officially stamped out, researchers in San Diego and elsewhere are scrambling to find ways to guard against what could become a fresh terrorist threat. (Quotes UCSD chemist Karl Hostetler).

Aguilar named chief of county education board
The San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 17, Pg. B-9 -- UCSD legal adviser and policy analyst Nick Aguilar is named chief of county education board.

Tech economy boom pays off for symphony, arts community
The San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 14, Pg. A-1 -- The $100 million donation to the San Diego Symphony by Joan and Irwin Jacobs is an example of how technology wealth is coming to local arts institutions. (Mentions Joan and Irwin Jacobs $15 million donation to UCSD).

Symphony director speaks honestly to accomplish things
The San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 20, Neil Morgan -- The $120 million package that Joan and Irwin Jacobs have bestowed ($100 million as endowment) has put the San Diego Symphony in headlines around the music world. A parallel may exist: A new university born in San Diego in 1962 (UCSD) from an equally inauspicious birthing bed, has already become, in every rating, one of the world's top 10 research universities.

Drinkable Bark That Lost Its Touch
The Times Higher Education Supplement, Jan. 18 -- UCSD Biology professor Christopher Wills reviews The Fever Trail: The Hunt for the Cure for Malaria written by Mark Honigsbaum Macmillan.