A Sampling of Clips for
June 8 - 10, 2002
UCSD
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Tijuana’s
advocate for change brings hope to a restive city
Los
Angeles Times, June
9 – Profile on Tijuana’s Institute for Municipal Planning
director Carlos Graizbord. Graizbord,
with the help of UCSD
professor of urban planning Keith
Pezzoli, wants to launch a $5-million pilot project to
demonstrate how the city’s impoverished neighborhoods can be
improved.
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Cronkites
sail in on a Birch bark
San
Diego Union Tribune, June
9 – Feature on the third annual dinner dance to benefit Scripps
Institution of Oceanography’s Birch Aquarium.
Walter Cronkite, recent recipient of the Scripps
Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest,
and Betsy Cronkite were guests of honor. UCSD
Chancellor Robert
Dynes, Scripps director
Charles Kennel, and UCSD
professor Emeritus Walter
Munk were among the attendees.
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Safer
cigarettes appeal to some, but appall others
Los
Angeles Times,
June
10 – If a smoker cannot or will not quit, is puffing on a less
hazardous cigarette the next best alternative? New cigarette
products marketed as having fewer carcinogens are already on the
market. Many tobacco-control advocates are appalled by the
notion of a safer cigarette, saying there is no evidence that
smoking can be made safer. Other experts maintain that independent
research should be done to determine the effectiveness of the
product. (Quotes UCSD professor of medicine David
Burns).
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Signs
point to a dangerous fire season
Los
Angeles Times, June 9 – According to the U.S.
Forest Service, Southern California has the potential for a fire
season of historic proportions. (Quotes Scripps
Institution of Oceanography director of climate research Dan
Cayan).
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Fallout
from nuclear war in South Asia seen as unlikely to reach U.S.
San
Diego Union Tribune, June
10 – A nuclear war between India and Pakistan, if limited to the
nuclear arsenals they are thought to possess, poses little danger
of radioactive fallout reaching North America.
(Mentions a Scripps
Institution of Oceanography study on the migration of
haze in South Asia by Scripps atmospheric
and climate scientist V.
Ramanathan and quotes Scripps
climatologist Larry
Riddle).
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Researchers
say global warming may leave state short on water
North
County Times, June
6 -- Researchers at UC Santa Cruz say the state could see warmer
temperatures and a smaller snowpack during the next half-century
because of global warming, a change that could diminish water
supplies in a state already familiar with drought.
(Quotes U.S. Geological researcher and Scripps
Institution of Oceanography director of the Climate
Research Division Dan Cayan).
http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20020606/51445.html
Article
also appeared in:
AZCentral.com,
June
7
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0607globalwarming-ON.html
The
king was ‘half a joke, and half the real thing’
San
Diego Union Tribune, June
9 – UCSD music
professor Roger Reynolds
is among the experts answering the question, “Was Elvis Presley
the greatest rocker ever, a charlatan, or something in between?”
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Junked
Science: A look back at DNA
Copley
News Service, June
10 – Advances in technology and new research now suggests that
some junk DNA does serve a purpose. (Quotes UCSD
professor of medicine Bruce Hamilton).
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Newly
graduated doctor tested early
San
Diego Union Tribune, June
10 – Less than an hour after receiving her medical degree from UCSD
yesterday, Catherine Robertson started practicing medicine in Old
Town.
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Dark
side of technology
Montreal
Gazette,
Editorial,
June 8 – Opinion regarding the posting of the
Daniel Pearl murder video on the web site of the Boston Phoenix.
(Quotes UCSD
Communications Michael Schudson).
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