california dreamin'

NEWS -- http://www.uniontrib.com/uniontrib/20040818/26.html

* E. County tribes eye side-by-side casino plan
http://www.uniontrib.com/uniontrib/20040818/news_1n18casino.html

* Combination therapy shows promise against prostate cancer
http://www.uniontrib.com/uniontrib/20040818/news_1n18prostate.html
* Pact may give S.F. Bay Area tribe sole casino rights
http://www.uniontrib.com/uniontrib/20040818/news_1n18lytton.html

LOCAL NEWS --http://www.uniontrib.com/uniontrib/20040818/13.html

Profitable and entertaining
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CHULA VISTA -- Long before a seemingly endless line of carsmakes the slow crawl south on Interstate 805 to the Main Streetexit on the way in, and well after the last few fans have left,the crews at Coors Amphitheatre are hard at work.* Special needs on the brink
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* Scripps asked to pick new Fla. site
http://www.uniontrib.com/uniontrib/20040818/news_7m18scripps.html
* Suspicious roadside object detonated; I-15 closed twice
http://www.uniontrib.com/uniontrib/20040818/news_7m18fwybomb.html

OPINION -- http://www.uniontrib.com/uniontrib/20040818/27.html

‘Gut and amend'
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California students certainly won't find it in their civicstextbooks. Nor will the subject surface in most conversationsabout the way legislation is enacted. That's because politicalinsiders in Sacramento would just as soon keep quiet about thedisturbingly common practice of gutting and amending a bill inorder to slip it through at the very end of a legislativesession.
* Border visitors
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BUSINESS -- http://www.uniontrib.com/uniontrib/20040818/29.html

Real estate conundrum
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Housing prices in San Diego County set another record lastmonth, but there are signs of a real estate slowdown fed bygreedy sellers, wary buyers and confusion in the economicoutlook.

* Housing pushes up S.D. inflation
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* S.D.'s Leap Wireless now on road to recovery http://www.uniontrib.com/uniontrib/20040818/news_1b18leap.html

QUEST -- http://www.uniontrib.com/uniontrib/20040818/6.html

Odds & ends
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Back in the 1970s, Stephen Hawking, the renowned Englishphysicist who occupies the same professorial chair at Cambridgeonce held by Isaac Newton, declared that black holes consumedanything that fell into them.

* Mars teases rovers with subtle signs of a wet past http://www.uniontrib.com/uniontrib/20040818/news_1c18mars.html

FOOD -- http://www.uniontrib.com/uniontrib/20040818/49.html

In concert
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It's 9:15 a.m. and Chef Paul Murphy is sitting in the diningroom of Humphrey's by the Bay. The restaurant is about one-third full of hotel guests havingbreakfast, mostly at tables by the windows.

* A simple life, richly lived
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* Savoir-fare
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