UCSC Review Magazine
Winter 2003

 

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Two faculty members, Gregory Gilbert and Ingrid Parker, have waged a relentless battle against a mysterious disease that is threatening Panama's coconut palms--and the life and livelihood of a little-known indigenous community, the people of the Kuna Yala. Read more.

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What's Killing Panama's Coconut Palms?

Two faculty members, Gregory Gilbert and Ingrid Parker, have waged a relentless battle against a mysterious disease that is threatening Panama's coconut palms--and the life and livelihood of a little-known indigenous community, the people of the Kuna Yala.

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  Gilbert & Parker
     

Time and the River

Historian Mark Cioc's new book is a chilling environmental tale about the Rhine, the world-famous river that, in less than 200 years of economic service to humans, was transformed from the "romantic Rhine" to "Europe's romantic sewer."

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  Mark Cioc
     

Adventures in Organic Chemistry

For almost 30 years, Phil Crews has studied sponges, creatures that have lived in our oceans for more than 500 million years and--because of their disease-fighting potential--have attracted the attention of medical researchers and pharmaceutical companies.

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Live from New York, it's . . . Maya Rudolph!

UCSC alumna Maya Rudoph, fulfilling a lifelong dream of becoming a cast member on Saturday Night Live, treats TV viewers each week to her eclectic mix of fictional and real-life characters, including over-the-top fashion designer Donatella Versace.

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