A Sampling of Clips for 
September 22, 2004

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Trial Gives Hope to Alzheimer's Sufferers
The Times (London), Sept. 22-The first patient trial of a gene therapy for Alzheimer's disease has begun in the United States, raising hopes of a cure. Scientists at Rush University Medical Centre in Chicago have injected their first patient with the experimental drug in a study that will test the safety and tolerability, rather than efficacy, of the new technique. A similar technique, in which genetically modified skin cells carrying NGF were implanted into the brain, has already been tested at the University of California, San Diego.
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/enews/articles/2004/09_22_trial.asp

NSF Announces Two Cybersecurity Centers To Study Internet Epidemiology and "Ecology
Innovations-Report, Sept. 22-The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced 33 new projects from its $30 million Cyber Trust program, including two new cybersecurity research centers that will focus on eliminating plagues of Internet worms and viruses and on building better security defenses through a deeper understanding of Internet "ecology." One of the centers, the Center for Internet Epidemiology and Defenses, will be led by Stefan Savage of the University of California, San Diego, and Vern Paxson of the International Computer Science Institute, affiliated with UC Berkeley.
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/informationstechnologie/bericht-33846.html

Similar article appeared in:
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 22
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/
20040922-9999-1b22cyber.html

UC Officials Tell What it Takes to Be Admitted
Modesto Bee, Sept. 22-Counselors from area high schools and community colleges met Tuesday with representatives of University of California campuses, including UC Merced, to review ways of helping students win admission. Officials from UC San Diego were among the speakers.
http://www.modbee.com/local/story/9180850p-10080740c.html

San Diego Immigration Raids Target Naval Station Contractors
Contra Costa Times, Sept. 22-More than two dozen illegal immigrants were picked up for deportation as part of an immigration sweep targeting companies that work as contractors with North Island Naval Air Station in Coronado. (Quote by Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego.)
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Similar articles appeared in:
Associated Press, Aug. 22
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/enews/articles/2004/09_22_immigration.asp

San Jose Mercury News, Sept. 22
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/
local/states/california/northern_california/9727602.htm

San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 22
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20040922-9999-7m22workers.html