A Sampling of Clips for 
November 27, 2002

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UN inspectors carry their own arsenal of high-tech tools
CBS Morning News, Nov. 26 – United Nations weapons inspectors in Iraq are better equipped than past UN missions to find Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. The inspectors will have access to a spy plane and satellite images as well as new airborne radars that can find hidden bunkers under the Iraqi desert. UCSD chemistry and biochemistry professor Michael Sailor explained the concept of smart dust, sensors the size of a grain of sand that will change colors when it detects chemical agents. Smart dust could be available for inspectors in less than a year.
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Diuretics a risk to kidney patients
Los Angeles Times, Nov 27 – Acute kidney failure patients treated with diuretics are up to three times more likely to die or suffer irreversible organ failure than patients who are not put on the drugs, according to a UCSD study led by UCSD professor of medicine Ravindra Mehta. The study is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Related articles appeared in:
Yahoo News, Nov. 27
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20021127/hl_nm/diuretics_kidneys_dc

Agence France Presse, Nov. 27
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Homeland defense 101
San Diego Daily Transcript, Nov. 27 – As part of the regional homeland security network, faculty members from SDSU and UCSD, along with businesses and the military, use their expertise to develop disaster preparedness strategies. (Quotes UCSD’s Ed Furtek, associate vice chancellor of science, technology and policy and Mark Thiemens, dean of physical sciences).
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Business 101
Orange County Register, Nov. 27 – American motorists are in an “arms race,” in the words of UCSD economist Michelle J. White, trading up from cars to SUVs, light trucks and even the military-inspired Hummer. White found that SUVs make roads safer but light trucks have the opposite effect.
http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=13407&section

UCSD in OptIPuter test
San Diego Union-Tribune, Technology Inc, Nov. 26 -- Cal-(IT)2 plans to use an optical router as the heart of a campus-wide supercomputer, with partners including IBM, Telcordia Technologies and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/20021126-9999_mz1b26ucsd.html

New War, New Allies
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 26 --The patented "smart armor" developed by UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering professors Kenneth Vecchio and Aashish Rohtagi was featured in a Technology cover story about how venture capitalists are helping the military spot promising inventions. Vecchio's armor, which can be manufactured to include embedded sensors, was selected by Pentagon officials as the most promising invention from Southern California.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/20021126-9999_mz1b26newwar.html

Science Briefs
San Diego Union Tribune, Nov. 27 – The emperor penguin colony at Cape Crozier in Antarctica is suffering due to two icebergs hitting the shoreline, creating ice fractures and buildup that have prevented some of the emperors from getting food for their young. Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers say the number of breeding pairs has sharply declined.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_1c27scibrief.html

Immigration reform will be slow, Powell tells Mexicans
Chicago Tribune, Nov. 26 – U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell embraced the notion of smoother and safer immigration for Mexican workers, calling for the regularization of the flow of undocumented immigrants into the United States but warning that any reforms will not come quickly. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Peter Smith).
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