A Sampling of Clips for 
September 23, 2003

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Studies Tie Disease to Gulf War Vets Lou Gehrig's Disease, a Lethal Legacy of '91 War
USA Today, Sept. 23- Veterans of the 1991 Gulf War appear to have a significantly higher risk of the neuromuscular disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease, according to two new studies. The findings, published today in the journal Neurology, found that the fatal disease occurred roughly twice as often in Gulf War veterans compared to civilians and military personnel not deployed to the Persian Gulf. (Quote by Dr. Beatrice Golomb, assistant professor of medicine at UC San Diego.)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-09-22-gulf-war-als_x.htm

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Los Angeles Times, Sept. 23
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-als23sep23,1,1420239.story

Solid 'At Work' is a Reminder of the Power of Agitprop
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 21-"At Work: The Art of California Labor," a traveling exhibit of various labor-themed artworks during the past century, debuted this month at San Francisco's California Historical Society and at San Francisco State University. The exhibit includes the controversial poster about immigrants in California created 15 years ago that was posted on 100 buses during the Super Bowl. The three local artists who created the poster, including Louis Hock, a professor of visual arts at UCSD, will have other work featured as well.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/arts/news_1a21pincus.html

Similar articles appeared in:
North County Times, Sept. 21
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2003/09/22/news/inland/9_21_0322_41_26.txt

La Prensa San Diego, Sept. 12
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Sea Change in Industry
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 23- With more than 5,000 people registered, organizers have billed this week's Oceans 2003 convention as the largest event of its kind - an "umbrella conference" for technical societies focused on ocean sciences and technology. (Quote by John Orcutt, deputy director of UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20030923-9999_1b23oceans.html

Victims of Capgras Syndrome Often Cannot Recognize Their Own Image
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 23-"Mirror self-misidentification" is a rare disease in which someone recognizes an object but feels no connection with it. The strange disorders demonstrates that it's not enough for us to recognize ourselves in a mirror -- we have to feel emotionally attached to our image before we think it is our own reflection. In his book "Phantoms in the Brain," Dr. V.S. Ramachandran, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego, wrote about one such patient who thought his poodle has been replaced by an identical but different dog.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03266/224822.stm