A Sampling of Clips for
July 27, 2006
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Hot? Yes. Global Warming? Maybe.
Los Angeles Times, July 26 -- The extreme temperatures of this year's heat wave have been so intense that they have created a sense of fundamental change — that somehow Los Angeles is on the verge of a searing future. Climate experts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla cautioned Tuesday that no single event — no matter how unusual — could be directly attributed to global warming and the effects of pollution. More
Border Arrests Decline by Half
NBC Nightly News, July 27 -- It first began in early summer, National Guard troops arriving to help protect the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona, Texas, New Mexico and California. Now, the first indications the added effort may be working: the number of illegal immigrants caught trying to sneak in the U.S. has dropped almost by half. (Quotes Wayne Cornelius, a political science professor at UCSD) More
Puzzling Out the Truth
The Economist, July 27 -- At the moment, 4.5m Americans have Alzheimer's. By 2050, if nothing changes, that number will have tripled. But if a treatment that delayed the disease's onset by seven years were to be available by the end of the decade, the number of sufferers would decline by 40% by the middle of the century. Hence the importance of understanding how Alzheimer's works, the better to devise a treatment. (Quotes Larry Goldstein, professor of cellular and molecular medicine at UCSD) More
The Policy Debate
KPCC, July 24 – Host Patt Morrison looks at the state of the US-Mexico border debate with Peter Nunez, a professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at USD and Monica W. Varsanyi, a visiting research fellow at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UCSD. More
UW Loses Top Chemistry Researcher
NBC 15, Madison, Wisconsin, July 24 -- The UW is losing another world class researcher. Dr. Arthur Ellis was regarded as one of Wisconsin's best chemistry researchers. He is now heading to UCSD, where he will become their vice chancellor of research. More
Institute in Chula Vista
Is Geared to Class of 2011
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 27 -- GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) aims to help students from low-income families make it to college and then succeed. Over the next five years, students will have the benefit of more highly trained teachers, the chance to attend science classes at a university, live tutoring from UCSD students via a Web cam, and university student ambassadors who will visit their campuses to advise them on college requirements. More
Experimental Treatment
Holds Promise for ALS
Ivanhoe.com, July 27 -- A new study conducted in rats reveals it may be possible to deliver therapeutic agents to the brains of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, via the cerebrospinal fluid. In the study, investigators from UCSD were able to deliver effective doses of antisense oligonucleotides to the brains and, subsequently, throughout the central nervous systems, of mice with an inherited form of ALS. More
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