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A Sampling of Clips for
September 5, 2006

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Toddlers Don't Always Outgrow Chubbiness
The New York Times, Sept. 5 -- Pudgy toddlers face a good chance of becoming overweight 12-year-olds, according to a government study, led by a UCSD researcher, that shoots down the notion that kids just naturally outgrow early chubbiness. More

Marie Tharp, 86; Pioneering Maps
Altered Views on Seafloor Geology
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 4 -- Marie Tharp, an oceanographic cartographer who drew pioneering maps of the world's oceans and whose observations from the late 1950s through the 1970s helped scientists reconsider the geology of the seafloor, has died. She was 86. (Quotes Robert Fisher, a research geologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD) More

Turkish Election Law
Challenged at Human Rights Court
Bloomberg, Sept. 5 -- Turkey's election system, which is being scrutinized as the country tries to join the European Union, came under attack today as a lawyer for two pro-Kurdish politicians argued in court that the rules were discriminatory. (Quotes Arend Lijphart, a professor emeritus at UCSD) More

An Intrepid Researcher
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 5 – Dr. Dennis Carson, the director of the Moores UCSD Cancer Center is a history and science buff and admits to being a “nut” for facts. Carson holds that practical, hands-on experience and basic research should be combined, and to that end the consummate physician-scientist has achieved what few ever do – a drug that can cure cancer. More

UCSD Fifth in Federal R&D Expenditures
North County Times, Sept. 2 -- UCSD ranked fifth among 600 universities in federal research and development expenditures for fiscal 2003-04, up 2 points from seventh in the previous ranking, according to figures from the National Science Foundation. The foundation says that UCSD spent $465.6 million in federal R&D funds in that period. More

Scripps Study Says Ocean Getting Noisier
North County Times, Sept. 2 -- John Hildebrand, a professor of oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD, and two other scientists announced a week ago that they had found, through a Navy-funded sound study conducted off one of the Channel Islands 160 miles west of San Diego, that the North Pacific is 10 times noisier than it was four decades ago. Hildebrand's partners were Sean Wiggins at Scripps and Mark McDonald, a former student who works as a consultant in Colorado. More

UC Davis Takes Stock of Its Own Air Impact
Sacramento Bee, Sept. 5 -- As one of the newest members of the California Climate Action Registry, UC Davis is in the midst of calculating its own emissions of greenhouse gases. To date, only two other UC campuses are part of the registry: UCSD, a charter member; and UC Santa Barbara. More

Global Warming Threatens Delta Islands, Water Supply
Contra Costa Times, Sept. 4 -- Warmer temperatures could cause a 1-foot sea level rise in the Delta by 2050, according to a new report by the state Department of Water Resources. Added to severe winter storm conditions, the report finds, this would likely overtop not just Sherman Island, but also Webb Tract and Jersey Island, nearby islands also considered vital to Delta water quality. (Quotes Dan Cayan, a climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD) More

Mahony, Others Are Standing Up for Immigrants
Los Angeles Daily News, Sept. 2 -- Immigration rights marches are planned for the Labor Day weekend and voter registration drives are ramping up. But with legislation stalled in Congress, it is likely that the polarizing immigration debate will continue. "It's very hard to concede that any piece of legislation is going to get passed," said Gordon Hanson, an immigration expert at UCSD. More

Undocumented Workers Carry Big Stick
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 5 – Economists say serious disruptions would be likely if the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants were forced to leave the country. Most have come from Mexico and Central America. (Quotes Wayne Cornelius, a professor of U.S.-Mexican relations at UCSD) More

Shakespeare at the Old Globe
KPBS, Sept. 4 -- Darko Tresnjak, who teaches in UCSD’s Department of Theatre and Dance and is the artistic director of the Summer Shakespeare Festival, talks about his creative approach. More

Scripps, UCSD Team Up
to Hunt for New Antibiotics on Ocean Floor
San Diego Business Journal, Sept. 4 -- Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD are taking the plunge. They want to see if they can discover antibiotics at the bottom of the ocean that can battle drug-resistant bacteria. The institution, UCSD’s School of Medicine, its Skaggs School of Pharmacy and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry are collaborating to pump up efforts to find new antibiotics, and get them to market. More

From Despair of Sisters, a House of Hope is Built
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 4 -- Eunime Por Tijuana, a program inspired by two sisters and their struggles, offers hope to infected children and their families. The aim, said founder Rosalva Vasquez, is to create a homey setting where families can both find and offer comfort. Vasquez is a family advocate at the Mother Child and Adolescent HIV Program at UCSD. More