Nowhere Near the Edge

If you always wanted to be a pilot but were put off by the bus-driver mentality ... if you always wanted to be an international spy ... if y...

We spent the evening watching a news program on CCTV International, a Chinese-based television network. The perspective on world events was...

The kids are well into their sports seasons now. After one practice and one practice game (which her "Penn State" team won), Kell...

The attention that the St. Mary's basketball team has brought to itself by its run to the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA tournament reminds ...

One of the unique features of our area is the very sharp delineation between prosperity and poverty. Our three little contiguous communities...

The NCAA men's basketball tournament kicks off again this morning, with a few items of local interest. The most prominent media story is...

The first space shuttle, the Enterprise, will be moved soon from its current home at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum Annex near ...

In preparation for our trip to China, I found myself at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco twice this week. On my first visit, I learne...

After a wet winter that played havoc with the practice schedule, the Moraga Baseball Association held its opening day ceremonies and first g...

The Boeing 747 . Bigger than expected, but versatile, and usually makes people happy when they see it. Yeah, that's sounds about right.

The part of the world that turned "google" into a verb, and gave the world the means to carry out that action, may be on the cusp ...

Cataclysmic seismic events have obvious local consequences. They also can have much more far-reaching consequences that are not visible to m...

Olympic athletes represent the pinnacle of human physical ability (except, perhaps, for curlers). "Faster, higher, stronger" is a...

Due to some technical glitch, I was without e-mail or Internet access for six hours yesterday. That was the day, of course, that I also left...

The sport of basketball, and especially its collegiate variant, is particularly vulnerable to influence by gamblers. Although it is a team g...

As the news industry turns its focus to economy's struggle to survive under its own weight and the intensified war in Afganistan, let...

File this under the category "Dog Bites Man": "Man on 'bad trip' found hugging tree in Santa Cruz." A 23 year ol...

As the eastern seaboard hunkers down under record snowfalls, Los Angeles is bidding farewell to its latest bout with crummy weather. The un...

Two months from now, we'll be on the biggest adventure of our lives. We will be taking a trip, over the kids' spring break, to carry...

It is common knowledge that elite athletes become so through a combination of God-given talent and sheer hard work. At the youth level, ther...