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	Airport Screeners Pick Up Final Paychecks Federal injunction may change law By May Chow AsianWeek Staff Writer Beleaguered airport screeners who received pink slips and notices of impending layoffs because of their nationality got a welcome break Friday, Nov. 15, when a federal judge issued an injunction against a section of the Homeland Security Act which prohibited non-citizens from being employed as security checkpoint workers nationwide. U.S. District Judge Robert Takasugi ruled that the portion of the Homeland Security Act which enforced the anti-terrorism Aviation and Transportation Security Act was unconstitutional. The injunction will hold until a court hears a civil rights lawsuit brought by nine screeners from Los Angeles and San Francisco. No trial date has been set... COMPLETE STORY...		A New Nightmare: Cambodian American Deportation Carries History’s Weight (Feature) Local and National Reports Document Sept. 11 Backlash (in National News) Airport Screeners Pick Up Final Paychecks (in Bay Area News) Ultimate Diversions: Inside the Twilight Zone (in Business) Mark Chung: American Soccer’s Coolest Man (in Sports) ‘Bollywood/Hollywood’ Celebrates Double Vision (in A&E) Emil Amok: APA Judge Grants Screeners Temporary Victory (in Opinion)

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Ground Breaking HIV/AIDS Conference Brings Asians Together By Ji Hyun Lim AsianWeek Staff Writer The American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR) collaborated with San Francisco’s Asian Pacific Islander Wellness Center on a three-day conference called Asian and Pacific Islander Summit on HIV/AIDS Research (A&PI SHARE) at the Oakland Marriott, Nov. 15 to 17. This conference was slated to introduce and re-familiarize the Asian Pacific American community to the growing need for HIV/AIDS research care and prevention, both here, and in developing countries...

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