A Sampling of Clips for 
October 31, 2002

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Suit ties whale deaths to research cruise
Science, Oct. 25 – An environmental group asked a federal judge to suspend a National Science Foundation funded sea-floor mapping expedition off Mexico that it claims led to the deaths of two whales. The incident has curtailed an expensive international mapping project and reignited controversy over the impact of noise on marine mammals. (Quotes Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s marine physical laboratory professor John Hildebrand).
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Local Scene
San Diego Metropolitan Magazine, Daily Business Report, Oct. 30 -- John Proakis, adjunct professor at UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering, will accept an education award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers at a conference in Boston in early November.
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Officials consider need for smallpox vaccinations
San Diego Business Journal, Oct. 14-20 Issue – James Dunford, director of emergency medicine at UCSD's Medical Center, who directs San Diego’s emergency response teams, supports small pox vaccinations of all emergency health care workers as recommended by the federal government.
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