A Sampling of Clips for 
June 7, 2006

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15 Ideas to Recharge America
Newsweek, June 12 -- Can the United States remain competitive in the changing global environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology, education and business to assess the challenges we face and to offer some solutions. (Leaders include San Diego Supercomputer Center Director Francine Berman) Main story, Berman's contribution

Angelides to Face
Schwarzenegger in November
Los Angeles Times, June 7 -- After months of vitriolic campaigning, state Treasurer Phil Angelides laid claim early today to the Democratic nomination for governor and pledged to turn his candidacy into a "fight for the California of our dreams." (Quotes UCSD political scientist Gary Jacobson) More

Electoral Earthquake
Could Begin in California
MSNBC, June 6 -- If you live in Atlanta or Denver, why should you care about a special election Tuesday in a congressional district in southern California? Answer: because the outcome tonight in California’s 50th congressional district will be the most significant indicator we’ve yet had as to whether Republicans can keep control of the House of Representatives this November. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Gary Jacobson) More

Peru Narrowly Avoids Electoral Disaster
San Diego Union-Tribune, Editorial, June 7 --
Peru narrowly dodged a bullet this past Sunday when centrist Alan García defeated Ollanta Humala, a radical anti-U.S. demagogue, by an uncomfortably narrow margin. Humala was threatening to pull Peru back from the global economy, install a more authoritarian regime and ally himself with Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez. (Editorial by Richard Feinberg, a professor at UCSD's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, who handled U.S.-Peruvian relations on President Bill Clinton's National Security Council) More

For New Ideas in Materials and
Engineering Solutions, Nature Fills the Bill
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 7 – Marc Meyers was a boy in Brazil when he first recognized the ingenuity of nature. Hiking with his father at the edge of a vast rain forest, he found the skeletal remains of a toucan and picked up its large beak. He was amazed at how light it was – and how strong. Today, the materials scientist at UCSD is studying what makes that beak, the product of millions of years of evolution, so exquisitely perfect for the tropical bird. The answers may someday lead to revolutionary designs for human innovation. More

Scientists Describe
Elaborate System of Gene Control
Triggered by Chemical Damage to DNA
News-Medical, June 5 – Scientists at UCSD and three other institutions have described for the first time a web of inter-related responses that cells use to avoid becoming diseased or cancerous after being exposed to a powerful chemical mutagen. More