A Sampling of Clips for 
October 16 - 17, 2002

* UCSD faculty and staff may obtain a copy of an article by e-mailing the University Communications Office

Study finds supplement slows down Parkinson’s
Associated Press, Oct. 15 – According to a preliminary study led by UCSD neurologist Clifford Shults, the dietary supplement, coenzyme Q-10, dramatically reduces brain cell deterioration in patients with early Parkinson’s disease.
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Article also appeared in:
Washington Post, Oct. 15
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27283-2002Oct15.html

Similar articles appeared in:
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 15
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London Daily Telegraph, Oct. 15
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USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2002-10-14-parkinsons-usat_x.htm

Copley News Service, Oct. 15
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San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 15
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/tue/metro/news_1m15parkins.html

NewScientist, Oct. 14
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992920

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Oct. 15
http://home.postdispatch.com

National Public Radio, Oct. 14
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BBC News, Oct. 15
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2327449.stm

Miami Herald, Oct. 15
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/4286387.htm

HealthScout, Oct. 15
http://healthscout.com/template.asp?page=newsdetail&ap=1&id=509587

ABC-TV, Oct. 15
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/Q10_021015.html

United Press International, Oct. 14
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021013-085046-6912r

CNN, Oct. 14
http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/conditions/10/14/parkinsons.supplement.ap/index.html

Strike affects five UC campuses
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 16 – UC lecturers and other union members concluded a strike yesterday aimed at pressuring administrators to provide more job security and higher wages. (Mentions UCSD and quotes UCSD union president, Fred Lonidier).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/metro/news_1m16strike.html

UCSD picketers hold demonstration
San Diego Daily Transcript, Oct. 15 – Sixty UCSD union workers held an informational picketing demonstration on Tuesday morning protesting unfair bargaining practices in their attempts to renew contracts with the university.
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Students examine planet from space
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Oct. 16 – In 1994, UCSD physicist Sally Ride started a program called EarthKAM where students and educators can photograph and examine Earth from the International Space Station. These images are available at http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu
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Rocket puts gamma ray telescope into orbit
United Press International, Oct. 17 – The International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) now contains a key instrument, the spectrometer, which was omitted from the U.S. telescope due to budget cuts. (Quotes UCSD physicist Jim Matteson, a pioneering member of INTEGRAL’s science and engineering team).
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Jealous? Sexes wired differently psychologist claims
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 16 – Jealousy, according to evolutionary psychologists, evolved millions of years ago and programmed different emotional responses in men and women. A study focused on culture by UCSD psychologist Christine R. Harris, disputes this theory.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_1c16jealousy.html

Conference mixes science, philosophy: Carleton gathering carries on in tradition of Aristotle
CanWest Global Communications Corp., Oct. 16 – This weekend, at Carleton University, neuroscientists and philosophers will be mixing at a conference from which both fields hope to gain new knowledge. (Quotes UCSD’s Patricia Churchland).
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2002 Tularik Earnings Conference Call
CCBN, Oct. 16 – A discussion with the Chief Executive Officer of Tularik, a pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of gene altering drugs. UCSD Health Sciences Vice-Chancellor, Ed Holmes, is introduced as a new member of Tularik’s Board of Directors.
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