A Sampling of Clips for 
November 02 - 04, 2002

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Two troubled minds
U.S. News & World Report, Nov. 4 – Psychologists are probing the mysteries of John Allen Muhammed and his teenage protégé. (Quotes UCSD professor of psychiatry J. Reid Meloy).
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/021104/usnews/4profile.htm

Seeing eye to eye with business
Business Week, Nov. 4 – Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the leader of the left-wing Workers Party and by all indications Brazil’s next President, met with ninety of the biggest names from Brazilian industry, banking, labor, and grassroots. Lula wants the maximum amount of debate on Brazil’s pressing economic and social problems. (Quotes Richard Feinberg, IR/PS professor at UCSD).
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UCSD to take part in study of schizophrenia
San Diego Union Tribune, Nov. 2 – UCSD researchers at the Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center are participating in a $10.9 million federal grant with nine other institutions to study schizophrenia. The funds enable the establishment of the General Clinical Research Center, a collaboration between UCSD and UC Irvine which establishes a way for researchers nationwide to share computerized brain images through high-speed Internet. (Quotes Gregory Brown, director of clinical neuroscience at UCSD’s Functional MRI center, and UCSD neuroscientist Mark Ellisman).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sat/metro/news_6m2images.html

Article also appeared in:
Copley News Service, Nov. 2

Scientists surprised at extent of dirty air
San Diego Union Tribune, Nov. 4 – A group of scientists that includes V. Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has found that the Mediterranean Sea has become a crossroads for polluted air from Europe, Asia and North America. The study, published in the journal Science, suggests that pollution is not just an urban problem; pollution occurs on regional and continental scales as well.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/mon/metro/news_1m4air.html

Article also appeared in:
Copley News Service, Nov. 4

Report calls for ecosystem focus on fishing management
San Diego Daily Transcript, Oct. 29 – The Pew Oceans Commission released a report by Scripps Institution of Oceanography professor Paul K. Dayton that calls for an immediate change to marine fisheries management and urges governments to establish vast no-kill reserves in the oceans to protect marine biodiversity.
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Disdain of credentials is the issue at UCSD, not poetry
San Diego Union Tribune, Letters to the Editor, Nov. 4 – Letters to the editor about UCSD literature professor Quincy Troupe.
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Crumbling Ethics
San Diego Union Tribune, Insight, Nov. 3 -- Editorial mentions the "deepening Quincy Troupe scandal" and questions whether lying and cheating have become second nature in our increasingly competitive culture. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/opinion/news_1e3bottom.html

Gray Davis Governor of California
San Diego Union Tribune, Nov. 3 -- In response to the question why voters should vote for him rather than Bill Simon, Gray Davis answers that he has kept his promises about education and health care, "thanks to programs designed at UC San Diego...we are training teachers through our professional development institutes...."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/opinion/news_1ed3davis.html

Chemicals, breast cancer: a strong link?
San Diego Union Tribune, Nov. 3, Pg. 1 -- Peter Rowe profiles Dani Grady and her battle with breast cancer. Grady is founder of "Cancer Survivorship: San Diego!" and the "Thrivers Network," a UCSD-sponsored program that pairs newly diagnosed cancer patients with veteran "guides" who are survivors of the same disease.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/currents/news_mz1c3cancer.html

History may favor Democrats, but math favors Republicans in House races
Associated Press, Nov. 2 – Some Republican leaders are predicting a gain of seats. Races still regarded as tossups by both Democrats and Republicans are seeing million-dollar advertising blitzes, personal attacks, and nonstop visits by national political leaders. (Quotes Gary Jacobson, a political scientist at UCSD).
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Collateral damage
San Diego Union Tribune, Nov. 3 -- Despite a boost in defense contracts war could have dire repercussions for a teetering economy. UCSD economics professor, ROSS STARR is quoted as saying that Wall Street could be one of the first casualties of the war. Article discusses how a war will mean more business for local military contractors such as SAIC, Titan Corp., General Atomics, Cubic Systems and Northrop Grumman.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/business/news_mz1b3damage.html

Climate action registry charter members
San Diego Daily Transcript, Oct. 25 – UCSD, Qualcomm and the city of San Diego were selected to be charter members of the California Climate Action Registry. Scripps Institution of Oceanography director Charles Kennel is a member of the registry’s board of directors.
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