A Sampling of Clips for 
March 24, 2004

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Local Hospitals Test Blood Substitute
NBC News, March 23-PolyHeme, a mixture of hemoglobin and saline, has already been approved for human use by the Food and Drug Administration. It will be introduced in emergency rooms at 20 hospitals around the country, including UCSD Medical Center and Scripps Mercy Hospital. It works like human blood to carry oxygen to the body's organs. http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/2943362/detail.html

Similar article appeared:
City News Service, March 23
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San Diego Donors Lead National List
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, March 24-San Diego philanthropists Joan Kroc and Joan and Irwin Jacobs made the two largest gifts in the nation in 2003, an unprecedented ranking for this region. Supporting a claim here on Sunday that the poor-man's-city alibi for San Diego is obsolete, Patricia Sinay relays new rankings from the respected Chronicle of Philanthropy. The journal, regarded as the primary news source among those in the field of philanthropy, says that Kroc, with four bequests totaling $360 million, was followed by the Jacobses, whose 2003 gifts included a $110 million pledge to UCSD.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/morgan/20040324-9999_1m24morgan.html

Putting Colleges in Charge of Schools
Los Angeles Daily News, Opinion, March 23-Higher education should play a greater role in California's public schools. It only makes sense. After all, the world's best colleges and universities reside right here in the Golden State -- particularly in our urban cities, where public school reform is so desperately needed. There are some early examples that show the potential of intertwining higher education with public schools. Six years ago, for example, in San Diego, a group of visionary educators created the Preuss School, a charter school on the campus of the University of California at San Diego for disadvantaged students whose parents lack a college degree.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~24781~2036634,00.html#

'One Nation' - But Under What?
Fresno Bee, March 24-When the nation's Founding Fathers declared their independence from England in 1776, they stressed that their actions were authorized by a higher authority than even the king himself. They based this revolutionary credo on their understanding "That all men are created equal," and "that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights." To those who signed the Declaration of Independence, these "truths" were self-evident. Now, 228 years later, the U.S. Supreme Court is at the center of a debate - over the Pledge of Allegiance - that suggests such views about the religious underpinnings of American government may no longer be self-evident. (Quote by Peter Irons, director of the Earl Warren Bill of Rights Project at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.fresnobee.com/24hour/nation/story/1236361p-8271546c.html

Same article appeared in:
Christian Science Monitor, March 24
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0324/p01s03-usju.html

Pennsylvania's Bankruptcy Rate Rose Slightly in 2003
Associated Press, March 23-Bankruptcies in Pennsylvania rose more than 8 percent last year, slightly higher than the previous year's rise of 5.5 percent, leaving the state in the 10th highest slot nationally for a second straight year. (Quote by Michelle J. White, a professor of economics at the University of California-San Diego.)
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Customs Chief Denies Link Between More Immigration Arrests and Bush plan
Copley News Service, March 23-The country's border security chief said that apprehensions of illegal immigrants along the Southwest border have increased steadily since Oct. 1, but he said it wasn't linked to President Bush's proposed guest-worker plan. (Quote by Wayne Cornelius, director of the center for comparative immigration studies at UC San Diego.)
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Bush Immigration Plan, Rise in Apprehensions Link Denied
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 24- The country's border security chief said the rise in apprehensions of illegal immigrants along the Southwest border since Oct. 1 is not linked to President Bush's proposed guest-worker plan. In a recent interview, Robert Bonner, commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, disputed allegations by Border Patrol union officials that increasing numbers of border crossers have been citing Bush's plan as a reason for coming. (Quote by Wayne Cornelius, director of the center for comparative immigration studies at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20040324-9999-news_1n24illegal.html

Undead Heads
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 24-Consciousness is one of the great and lingering mysteries of science. Francis Crick calls it "the major unsolved problem in biology." Crick, who has spent the last couple of decades at the Salk Institute in La Jolla conducting brain research, believes that all of the brain's behaviors, including consciousness, result from the brain's physical processes. For more than a decade, he and colleagues like Christof Koch, a neurobiologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, have argued that human self-awareness is essentially the consequence of countless neurons, sensory cells and other physiological systems interacting with the environment to create the intangible entity we know as our minds. (Quote by Larry Squire, a neuroscientist at UCSD and the San Diego VA Medical Center.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040324-9999-news_lz1c24zombie.html