A Sampling of Clips for
November 20th, 2006
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Nobel Laureates Pushing Bush to Act on Global Warming
Bloomberg, Nov. 20 -- Environmentalists concerned about global warming want the U.S. Supreme Court to turn up the heat on President George W. Bush. The justices, taking their first plunge into the debate over emissions that scientists blame for increasing the Earth's temperature, hear arguments Nov. 29 in a case brought by conservation groups and 12 states. The states have the support of 18 climate scientists, including Nobel Prize-winner Mario J. Molina of UCSD. More
Single-sex Classes on a Forward Course
Los Angeles Times, Nov. 20 -- Single-sex classes and schools — both public and private — are gaining favor across the nation as educators search for ways to boost test scores and students' self-esteem. In 1995, only three public schools in the nation offered a single-sex option, compared with more than 253 today, according to the National Assn. for Single Sex Public Education. Five percent of private schools are single-sex. (Mentions a study by researchers at the University of Toronto, UCSD and UC Berkeley) More
Netroots
The New York Times, Nov. 19 -- The word netroots has a left-of-center connotation. The earliest use I can find is in a Jan. 15, 1993, message from UCSD on an e-mail list of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. More
The Beautiful and the Bad
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 18 -- Orchids & Onions, San Diego's 30-year-old program promoting the best and dissing the bad in local architecture, returned after a three-year break last night, with top honors going to the Calit2 building at UCSD. More
New Treatment Could
Keep Eye Disease In Check
10News, Nov. 17 -- Wet macular degeneration is an eye disease that is the major cause of blindness in this country. Now, doctors are making enormous strides with new treatments and a novel imaging device, calle an OCT scan, that is giving doctors a more precise way to keep the disease in check. UCSD's Jacobs Retina Center is only one of two places in the world using the OCT scan. More
Volunteers Sweep
Popular Beaches for Garbage
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 19 -- They weren't there to party or frolic in the waves. They weren't even trying to get a tan. Instead, hundreds of college students, including UCSD, and volunteers descended on San Diego beaches yesterday to haul away the trash others left behind. More
Airport Authority Changes May Come
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 18 -- Air transportation planning in San Diego needs to become more regional, encompassing highways and transportation to Lindbergh Field, some speakers at a legislative hearing said yesterday. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Steve Erie) More
Fishing for Answers
North County Times, Opinion, Nov. 18 -- Alas, we may be loving seafood ---- fish ---- into extinction. That's the sad forecast offered earlier this month by some of the world's top marine scientists, including some from UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. More
Sino-American Trade Group Fosters Partnerships
San Diego Business Journal, Nov. 20 -- A growing life sciences trade organization has found its niche in promoting cross-Pacific partnerships. The Sino-American Biotechnology and Phramaceutical Professionals Association, or SABPA, held its second annual Pacific Forum on Life Science Alliances on Nov. 4 at UCSD. The event attracted around 200 attendees seeking information on trends in cross-Pacific partnering among life sciences firms. More