A Sampling of Clips for
July 31, 2006
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A Primeval Tide of Toxins
Los Angeles Times, July 30 -- In many places — the atolls of the Pacific, the shrimp beds of the Eastern Seaboard, the fiords of Norway — some of the most advanced forms of ocean life are struggling to survive while the most primitive are thriving and spreading. Where this pattern is most pronounced, scientists evoke a scenario of evolution running in reverse, returning to the primeval seas of hundreds of millions of years ago. Jeremy B.C. Jackson, a marine ecologist and paleontologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, says we are witnessing "the rise of slime." More
Partisan Divide on Iraq
Exceeds Split on Vietnam
The New York Times, July 29 -- No military conflict in modern times has divided Americans on partisan lines more than the war in Iraq, scholars and pollsters say — not even Vietnam. And those divisions are likely to intensify in what is expected to be a contentious fall election campaign. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Gary Jacobson) More
Orange County
Supervisors Take Aim at Term Limits
Los Angeles Times, July 31 -- Orange County supervisors on Tuesday are poised to place a measure on the November ballot asking voters to let them keep their jobs for four additional years, as politicians increasingly challenge the term limits imposed on them in the 1990s. "There is a growing backlash" by politicians, said Thad Kousser, a political scientist at UCSD. "Across the country, and across California, we're seeing more action and more of a will by politicians to extend term limits than ever before." More
San Diego Participates In New
Cardiac Arrest, Trauma Treatments Study
10News, July 28 -- UCSD is among 300 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada that will coordinate clinical trials of promising new treatments for cardiac arrest and traumatic injury. More
UC Responds on Pay Packages
San Diego Union-Tribune, Letters to the Editor, July 29 -- I am writing regarding two stories, “UCSD's Fox to credit back $248,000 sabbatical pay” (A1, July 20) and “UC regents retroactively approve lucrative compensation packages” (News, July 21). Both were written as if the compensation that Chancellor Marye Anne Fox received for her earned sabbatical had intentionally circumvented a process or acted independently of the University of California Office of the President. This is not the case and the insinuations are blatantly false. (Written by Associate Vice Chancellor Stacie Spector) More
Time-Lapse Cam Shows Wildfire Grow
NBC San Diego, July 28 -- Time-lapse photography from a camera mounted on a backcountry peak shows the rapid development of the East County wildfire that has blackened 16,700 acres. The camera is one of several operated by the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD. Researchers have been using their network of remote cameras to help firefighters monitor fires since the deadly Cedar Fire in October 2003. More
Nicaragua Elections: What's at Stake
Latin Business Chronicle, July 31 -- In elections this November, Nicaraguan voters will make choices with big implications for their democratic institutions and economic policies – and with loud geopolitical reverberations for inter-American relations. (Written by Richard Feinberg, a professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UCSD and a former Latin America expert on President Clinton’s National Security Council) More
A Better Tijuana, One Home at a Time
Voice of San Diego, July 31 – Oscar Romo is now 58, showing gray around his temples, and working as the coastal training program coordinator for the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve. He is in Tijuana to meet with local planners about an effort to bring sewer service to a local neighborhood called San Bernardo. He teaches a class about sustainable development at UCSD. More
Ballot Measure
Endangers Labor-business Truce
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 30 -- A cease-fire between California business and labor groups that followed last year's contentious statewide special election is threatened by a November ballot proposition that would establish a system of public financing of state political campaigns. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Gary Jacobson) More
Scientists:
Global Warming Is Real but This Isn't It
North County Times, July 30 -- It's hotter than you know what outside, and the sizzling temperatures are the surest sign yet that the theory of global warming is for real, right? Well, no, not exactly, say climate scientists. (Quotes Nigella Hillgarth, executive director for the Birch Aquarium at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More
Regional Economy Prepared to Weather Residential Sales Slump, Says BofA Expert
San Diego Business Journal, July 31 -- While longer selling times for single-family homes are now clearly evident, the region is still far from the kind of recession that decimated the housing market in the early 1990s, says economist Lynn Reaser, speaking at UCSD’s School of Medicine recently. More
