A Sampling of Clips for 
September 05, 2002

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Fewer blacks go to med schools
San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 5, Pg. 3 – African Americans have been gradually thinned from the ranks of California’s medical schools. The five UC medical schools – UCSF, UC Davis, UCSD, UCLA and UC Irvine -- enrolled 20 blacks in 2001, according to state records, down from 27 five years ago.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/09/05/MN173119.DTL

Technology worth watching: Detector for warfare agents
Financial Times, (London), Sept. 5, Pg. 11 – UCSD scientists have developed an “intelligent dust” that could be used as a remote detection system to warn of chemical or biological warfare agents. The report was published online in Nature Materials.
http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=020905000564&query=warfare+agents

Put on a sweater for the cold facts
San Diego Union Tribune, Weather Watch, Sept. 5 – Paul Jamason, an earthquake researcher at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, provided observations about San Diego’s climate to Weather Watch.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_1c4weather.html

Martin D. Kamen, 89, a discoverer of radioactive carbon-14
New York Times, Pg. 21 – Martin D. Kamen, an emeritus professor of chemistry at UCSD and co-discoverer of carbon-14, an isotope he used and developed as a tracer atom in one of the most powerful and frequently used tools of modern science, died on August 31 in Santa Barbara. He was 89.
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