A Sampling of Clips for
March 2 - 4, 2002
UCSD
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Argentine
ant is pesky immigrant
Houston
Chronicle,
Mar.3,
Pg. 50 – A team of UCSD researchers led by
biology
professor Ted Case concluded that the Argentine ant is
forcing the
horned lizard into extinction.
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Ants
flourish, lizards decline
Washington
Post,
Science notebook,
Mar.4
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Lizards’
woes linked to Argentine ants
Los
Angeles Times, Mar.4
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Japan
plan’s silver lining is hard to see
San
Diego Union Tribune, Mar.1,
Pg. C-1— The Japanese government’s
long-awaited economic plan
is announced.
The world’s second largest
economy has been in a
moderately severe debt/deflation spiral for several
years. (Quotes
UCSD economics
professor Takeo Hoshi).
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Manufacturing
recovering, says survey, but CEOs have
doubts
San
Diego Union Tribune,
Mar.2, Pg. C-1— If two separate industry surveys
are to be
believed, manufacturing made an amazing recovery in January and
February. Economists say that manufacturing’s awakening is
the final piece
of the puzzle that will end recession. (Quotes UCSD
economist Ross Starr).
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The
next web
Business
Week, Mar.4
– Tim Berners-Lee plans to replace today’s Work Wide
Web with
the Semantic Web – a smart network that will finally understand
human languages. (Quotes Chaitanya
Baru, assistant director of the San
Diego Supercomputer
Center, and Cal- (IT)2 director, Larry L. Smarr).
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Modern
maps represent centuries of refinement
Copley
News Service, Mar.4
– Article discusses the history of cartography
and the continued
diversification of maps including the map of the Earth’s
ocean
floor developed by Scripps
Institution of Oceanography’s researchers
and the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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From the mind of a musical adventurer
Los
Angeles Times, Mar.
3, Pg. 59 – The San Diego Muzik3 festival is profiled.
(Quotes UCSD
music professor Steven Schick, a member of the group Red
Fish Blue Fish that will perform at the festival).
Shaking
things up
San
Diego Union Tribune, Diane
Bell column,
Mar.2, Pg. B-1 –The slippage
of a chunk of La
Jolla’s rocky Cliffside on the day of the earthquake near
Calexico was attributed to normal wear and tear from waves,
according to
Scripps
Institution of Oceanography seismologist, Pete
Davis.
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The
actor’s life
San
Diego Union Tribune,
Pg.
F-1 – A group of nine local actors discuss
the state of the
actor’s profession in San Diego. (UCSD’s
theater training
program is mentioned).
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UCSD
revenues at $1.6 billion
San
Diego Business Journal, Feb.
18-24-- UCSD
attracted a total of $1.3
billion in outside investments for the
fiscal year 2001, which raised total
revenues to $1.6 billion.
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