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July 26, 2006

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One Man's Spam Is Another's Art
The New York Times, July 25 -- Most people see Viagra ads and Nigerian scams as simply more e-mail to delete. Alex Dragulescu sees art. For the last several years, the Romanian-born computer artist has applied techniques in computational modeling and information visualization to invent a new form of artistic expression. (Dragulescu is manager of the Experimental Game Lab, a research lab at the Center For Research in Computing and the Arts at UCSD) More

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Mideast War
Closes Colleges in Lebanon and Israel
The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 28 -- The evacuation of American students, professors, and other citizens from Lebanon began in earnest last Tuesday, as several hundred Americans, including a group of students, left the war-torn country by sea and by air. But the exodus of foreigners from Lebanon has not been easy, as Israeli airstrikes have been focused on the country's bridges, roads, seaports, and airports. (Quotes Michael Provence, a historian at UCSD) More

At Risk: America's National Parks
KLTV, July 25 -- Glaciers, wildlife and forests could disappear entirely from Western national parks because of what a new report by environmental advocacy groups calls the single greatest threat: global warming. “The snow is melting earlier in the year at very regular intervals now, and we're getting much longer fire seasons," said scientist Anthony Westerling of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. "It dries out much more than before." More

Radiation May Offer
Better Way to Make Vaccines
Reuters, July 25 -- Vaccines made with bacteria killed by gamma rays may be more effective than those made using standard heat or chemical inactivation, U.S. government researchers said on Wednesday. Such vaccines do not have to be kept cold, the team at the UCSD School of Medicine reported in the journal Immunity. More