A Sampling of Clips for 
March 18, 2003

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Irwin, Joan Jacobs; Their many contributions keep on giving
San Diego Union-Tribune, EDITORIAL, Mar. 18 – Irwin and Joan Jacobs pledged $110 million to University of California, San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering. It's the largest gift in UCSD's history, and one of the largest individual gifts ever given to a school of engineering.
http://signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/tue/opinion/news_mz1ed18botto.html

To screen or not?
Baltimore Sun, Mar. 17 – The debate over whether healthy people should be screened for everything from abdominal aneurysms to cancer to heart disease has widened in recent years, as newer technologies and more tests have become available and as more research emerges on the benefits, harms and costs. (Quotes Dr. William G. Bradley, chairman of the radiology department at the University of California, San Diego).
http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.screenings17mar17.story

HIV's mutations keep body, drugs from beating virus
Scripps Howard News Service, Mar. 17 – HIV mutates to escape the body's own immune response "faster than anything we've seen before with drug resistance," according to a leading researcher on the virus that causes AIDS. Dr. Douglas Richman, a virologist and physician with the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System and a professor at the University of California, San Diego said that the immune system continues to respond to the virus that it sees, but it takes days and weeks for it to change targets, while the virus continually mutates with new variants daily to escape that response.
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Orange County Register, Mar. 18
http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=30485&section=NEWS&subsection=FOCUS_HEALTH&year=2003&month=3&day=18

Company develops anthrax drug, others try smallpox
Forbes, Mar. 18 – The U.S. government believes a biological attack is likely and that the threat will remain for years. A Maryland-based biotechnology company said it has developed a new drug that it believes can prevent anthrax infection, and treat someone already infected. Smallpox is also considered a likely biological agent and a team at the University of Alabama and the University of California, San Diego said they developed a new version of an existing vaccine in a form of a pill.
http://www.forbes.com/personalfinance/retirement/newswire/2003/03/18/rtr910202.html

UCSD Biologists Discover Key To Blocking Inflammation
ScienceDaily, Mar. 18 – Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that eliminating the ability of white blood cells to respond to low oxygen levels effectively blocks the development of inflammation in mice, an advance that could have widespread implications for the prevention of inflammation in humans. (Quotes Randall S. Johnson, an associate professor of biology, who headed the study at UCSD and mentions Yuji Yamanishi, Gary Firestein, Maripat Corr, and Victor Nizet of the UCSD School of Medicine).
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/03/030318074607.htm