A Sampling of Clips for
September 26th, 2006
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Barriers Have Failed Before
Arizona Daily Star, Sept. 25 -- History offers little hope
for a nation attempting to seal its southern border. The government slowed illegal crossings to a trickle in targeted areas of El Paso and San Diego. So illegal entrants shifted their routes to Arizona and New Mexico. Now they're shifting back. Whatever officials have tried, the flow of illegal immigration has not stopped. Not even close. (Quotes Wayne Cornelius, head of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UCSD) More
Forest Was Easy Prey for Raging Tripod Fire
The Seattle Times, Sept. 24 -- This lookout offers a sobering vista of burned forests, stretching nearly 40 miles along the flanks and ridges of these northeast Washington mountains. Here, the Tripod Complex fire fed on timber baked dry in the summer heat. In some places, the flames whipped up fierce winds that uprooted whole tree trunks. (Story mentions Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More
Man-Made Volcanic Effect?
TCS Daily, Sept. 25 -- Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD has proposed one way to curb global warming (natural and/or man-made) is to purposely shoot sulfur into the atmosphere, in much the same way that major volcanic eruptions do. Injecting sulfur into the stratosphere would reflect more sunlight back to space and offset greenhouse gas warming, according to Crutzen. More
Protein Treatment Found for Hookworm
UPI, Sept. 25 -- U.S. researchers have discovered a natural protein is highly effective at treating hookworm infections in laboratory animals. UCSD and Yale University scientists say the protein is produced by Bacillus thuringiensis -- a bacterium sprayed on crops by organic farmers to reduce insect damage. More
Similar story in
San Diego Daily Transcript
Will El Niño Rain On Parades This Winter?
NBC San Diego, Sept. 25 -- Meteorologists are reporting that an El Niño may be on the way again this winter but it may not be the strong El Niño that leads to torrential rains and flooding like the one back in 1998. Scientists said there's evidence another is heating up waters in the central Pacific but Art Miller of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography said it looks to be mild-to-moderate in size. More
San Diego Wrestles with
Military Past as It Looks to Future
Voice of San Diego, Sept. 26 -- Back in 1850, when San Diego was a small village located at the mouth of Mission Valley, entrepreneur William Heath Davis set out to reestablish a new civic center closer to the bay. He bought
a 160-acre parcel of bayfront land in the heart of what would become modern downtown and, in hopes of attracting a permanent engine to drive commerce and attract settlers from Old Town, donated a swath of land to the U.S. Army. (Quotes Abe Shragge, a professor of history at UCSD) More