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October 18th, 2006
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Unraveling Alzheimer's
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 18 -- When UCSD neuroscientist Leon Thal first became interested in the puzzles of Alzheimer's disease 30 years ago, he didn't realize how tough they would be to solve. “This has turned out to be a much more difficult disease than anybody imagined,” said Thal, whose $150 million, 15-year federal project to study Alzheimer's received an additional $52 million yesterday from the National Institute on Aging. More
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Microfinancing: Transforming the World's Poor
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Oct. 18 -- The joint award of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank represents a coming of age for microfinance. The simple idea that poor people could use the social capital from their relationships as collateral for loans has proved transformative. (Written by Craig McIntosh, an assistant professor in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UCSD) More
Undocumented Workers Have Large impact on Local Economy
KPBS, Oct. 17 -- The availability of undocumented workers has been pivotal in fueling San Diego’s economic boom in the last 15 years. That’s according to UCSD immigration specialist Gordon Hanson, who says the boom this region has enjoyed has not been driven solely by biotech, telecom and other digital technologies. Workers in those industries were able to settle here because there was enough housing and cheap services. More
Illegal Entry a Hot Issue in Ohio
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 18 -- Candidates in such disparate states as Arizona, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Montana, Indiana, Georgia and Minnesota are focusing, with varying degrees of intensity, on immigration. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Gary Jacobson) More