A Sampling of Clips for
May 21, 2002
UCSD
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There
are many reasons to get out and join the exercise crowd
Montreal
Gazette,
May
21, Pg. F4 – A UCSD
study found that when couch potatoes started exercising for 60
minutes three or four times a week, their sex life improved.
http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette
In
folding proteins, clues to many diseases
New
York Times, May
21 Pg. 1 – Researchers say people with Alzheimer’s,
Parkinson’s, and a wide array of other neurodegenerative
disorders, have problems with their body’s cellular machinery
for making proteins and recycling misshapen proteins. (Quotes Peter
Wolynes, chemistry and biochemistry professor and head
of UCSD’s
structural biology program).
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Do
we really need to sleep? And why?
Washington
Post, May
21, Pg. F01 – Researchers have differing opinions about how much
sleep people need to function well and remain healthy. Mentions
a sleep study led by UCSD
psychiatry professor Daniel
Kripke.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44855-2002May20.html
Take
a deep breath, order white wine
USA
Today, May
21, Pg. 9D – Researchers reported Monday that white wine beats
red at preserving aging lungs.
(Quotes UCSD medicine
and physiology professor Peter
Wagner).
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Roses
& raspberries
North
County Times, Editorial,
May 20 –Profile on Scripps
Institution of Oceanography professor Charles
David Keeling.
http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20020520/62324.html
Miss
Del Mar wins fairest of the fair
Union
Tribune, May
18 – Miss Del Mar, Kelly McPheters, a UCSD
graduate, won the Fairest of the Fair pageant and will represent
San Diego County in the Miss California contest.
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Stephen
Jay Gould, a leading evolutionary theorist, dies
San
Diego Union Tribune,
May
21 – Stephen Jay Gould, the evolutionary theorist at Harvard
University whose research, lectures and prolific output of essays
helped to reinvigorate the field of paleontology, died yesterday.
(Quotes UCSD biology
professor David Woodruff).
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