A Sampling of Clips for
September 18, 2002
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Tiny silicon spies
to sniff terror
NewsFactor
Network, Sept. 16 – Researchers at UCSD have
developed dust-sized chips of silicon that allow them to rapidly
and remotely detect a variety of biological and chemical agents,
including substances that a terrorist might dissolve in drinking
water or spray into the atmosphere. (Quotes UCSD professor
of chemistry Michael Sailor).
http://sci.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19325.html
San
Diego historians tell Congress they must vote if U.S. to attack
Iraq
Copley News Service, Sept. 17 – 1,200 college
historians are petitioning Congress to adhere to the constitutional
mandate that Congress must declare war if the United States is
going to attack Iraq. (Mentions UCSD historians Michael
Bernstein, Ross Frank, Rachel Klein, Michael Meranz, and Becky
Nicolaides).
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No link available online.
Monterey
Bay marine sanctuary celebrates a decade
San Jose Mercury News, Sept. 18 – Ten years
ago President Bush established the Monterey Bay National Marine
Sanctuary, creating the largest protected ocean areas in the United
States. Marine biologists
now call this area the “Monterey Research Crescent.”
(Mentions Scripps Institution of Oceanography).
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/4098162.htm
UCSD’s
engineering department hires 15 new faculty members
San Diego Daily Transcript, Sept. 16 – The
new hires, at UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering,
will strengthen efforts in nanotechnology and embedded systems,
optical networking and sensors, bioinformatics, data mining and
machine learning, computer graphics and network systems.
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Unplugged
U.
Wired Magazine, Oct. – Dartmouth, one of
the oldest colleges, has gone wireless by adding a campuswide
wireless network, with more than 500 Wi-Fi antennas, covering
roughly 200 acres. (Mentions UCSD).
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/dartmouth.html
Anti-smoking
group takes issue with pessimistic report
Global News Wire, Sept. 17 – A New Zealand’s
Quit Group anti-smoking organization, takes exception to a study
on nicotine gum and patches by UCSD researchers.
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Pooling
Funds helps wary Mexicans help themselves
The Houston Chronicle, Sept. 17 – Article discusses
the tanda or cundia system, a generations-old practice in Mexico
whereby friends, relatives, and co-workers participate in small-scale
savings plans by pooling their money, as an alternative to traditional
banks. (Quotes assistant director of UCSD’s Center
for U.S.–Mexican Studies Erik Lee).
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No link available online.
Democrats,
GOP agree to forgo costly California campaigns and do battle elsewhere
Associated
Press, Sept. 17 – Recent redistricting allows political
parties to spend less on their campaigns. (Quotes UCSD’s
political scientist Gary Jacobson).
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