A Sampling of Clips for 
October 11, 2002

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Jealous? Maybe it’s genetic. Maybe not
New York Times, Health, Oct. 8 – Two new papers, including one written by UCSD psychologist Christine R. Harris, question the evidence assembled by evolutionary psychologists for the notion that jealousy evolved differently in men than in women. Harris’ critique is to be published next year in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Review.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/08/health/psychology/08JEAL.html?ex=

Article also appeared in:
Toronto Star, Oct. 11

Discovery raises hope for effective eczema treatment
San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 10 – Richard Gallo, associate professor of medicine at UCSD, and other researchers found that people who suffer from eczema infections appear to lack two naturally occurring proteins. Gallo’s findings are published in Thursday’s edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, with colleagues Takaaki Ohtake and Corinne Brandt of UCSD and Tomas Ganz of UCLA.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/thu/metro/news_7m10rash.html

Supercomputer to be linked to 4 others in powerful grid
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Oct. 11, Pg. 4 – The National Science Board approved spending $35 million to connect the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s powerful Terascale computer with four supercomputers in Illinois and California, creating what will be called the TeraGrid. Four of the sites, including the San Diego Supercomputer Center, are linked together.
http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20021011gridsci2p2.asp

Student group’s Web site may keep its link to suspected terrorist organizations
Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 11 – UCSD has withdrawn demands that a student group, the Che Café Collective, remove from its Web page Internet links to the sites of suspected terrorist organizations. (Quotes Joseph Watson, UCSD’s vice chancellor for student affairs).
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/10/2002101003t.htm

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San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 11
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/metro/news_2m11ucsd.html

Copley News Service, Oct. 11
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Visiting Scripps scientists a winner
San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 10, Front page – Swiss scientist Kurt Wuthrich, a visiting professor at The Scripps Research Institute, is a winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Wuthrich will join the Scripps faculty full time in 2004. (Quotes UCSD physics professor Jose Onuchic).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/thu/news/news_1n10nobel.html

Japan society honors Jonishi, Monk
San Diego Daily Transcript, Oct.10 – Scripps Institution of Oceanography geophysicist Walter Munk received the Reischauer educator award from The Japan Society of San Diego and Tijuana.
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