A Sampling of Clips for
July 30, 2002
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These colors
don’t run, but they droop
New York Times, July 30, Pg. 1 – Latino owned
grocery stores, called bodegas may soon have their outward appearance
changed by replacing the red-and-yellow metal awnings with newer-style
awnings that would make them look modern and successful. (Quotes
UCSD economics professor James E. Rauch).
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Carbon
dioxide: Has friend become foe?
Sacramento Bee, July 29 – California became
the first state in the nation to adopt a law regulating greenhouse
gas emissions from vehicles. Carbon dioxide measurements by Scripps
Institution of Oceanography professor Charles Keeling
show that gas has risen in the atmosphere from 315 parts per million
in 1958 to over 370 ppm today.
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/v-print/story/3768418p-4793905c.html
First,
you market the disease…then you push the pills to treat it
The Guardian, July 30 – Murray Stein,
UCSD psychiatry professor and consultant for the pharmaceutical
firm SmithKline Beecham, is one of the experts who took part in
the social anxiety disorder campaign. SmithKline marketed the
disease, and then promoted the disease itself when FDA approval
for the drug Paxil’s new use was virtually guaranteed.
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Work
the mind, boost the memory
Copley News Service, July 29 – The “body
peg” technique, which teaches us to mentally associate things
we need to remember with a body part, is one of many little mind
games that can be used to jump-start the memory. (Quotes UCSD
neuropsychologist David Salmon and UCSD professor
of psychiatry and neurosciences Larry Squire).
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Cancer
– no magic bullet
Copley News Service, July 29 – A significant
and growing shift in the fight to conquer cancer focuses not on
physically removing cancer surgically or with massive doses of
chemotherapy, but on rewiring, disrupting or eliminating its lifelines.
(Quotes David Tarin, director of the Moores UCSD
Cancer Center and Thomas Kipps, an immunologist at the
Moores Cancer Center).
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