A Sampling of Clips for
October 30, 2002
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Oceans need
broader management perspective
Environmental News Service, Oct. 29
– Pew Oceans Commission released a report yesterday by
Scripps Institution of Oceanography professor
Paul K. Dayton that calls on an immediate change
to marine fisheries management and urges governments to establish
vast no-kill reserves in the oceans to protect marine biodiversity.
http://ens-news.com/ens/oct2002/2002-10-29-06.asp
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article appeared in:
San Diego Union
Tribune, Oct. 30
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/metro/news_7m30ocean.html
Copley News Service,
Oct. 30
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Questions
about the benefit of having an official state poet laureate
in light of recent controversies surrounding Amiri Baraka and
Quincy Troupe
NPR, Oct. 29 – Ward Connerly,
chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute and University
of California system regent, comments about the recent controversy
surrounding UCSD literature professor Quincy
Troupe.
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article appeared in:
San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 30
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/metro/news_2m30quincy.html
Parties
grabbing ‘soft money’
USA Today, Oct. 30 – The Republican
and Democratic parties are on a pace to raise a record amount
of the loosely regulated cash this year, before it is banned
Nov. 6 by a new campaign-finance law. The pace is being driven
by both parties’ efforts to cling to their power bases
in Congress. (Quotes UCSD political scientist
Gary Jacobson).
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002-10-29-softmoney-usat_x.htm
Fed may
act to cut rates, but when?
San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 30 –
The collapse of consumer confidence last month should jolt the
Federal Reserve into lowering short-term interest rates soon
and long rates should fall should also fall. The Conference
Board’s index of consumer confidence plunged to 79.4 this
month, the lowest level since November 1993. (Quotes UCSD
economist Ross Starr).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/business/news_1b30bauder.html
Truth is,
San Diego pupils are improving
San Diego Union Tribune, Neil Morgan
column, Oct. 30 -- Neil Morgan's column cautions people to avoid
the mudslinging in the school board elections and consider progress
that is being made through the Blueprint for Student Success.
(Quotes UCSD political scientist Sam
Popkin).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/metro/news_1m30morgan.html
Understanding
cloning
San Diego Union Tribune, Opinion,
Oct. 30 – Opinion piece written by Lawrence S.B.
Goldstein, professor in the department of Cellular
and Molecular Medicine at UCSD, explains the
use of embryonic stem cells in research.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/opinion/news_1030golds.html
