Americans abroad have been boasting for years about California wines, only to be greeted in most cases by polite disbelief—or worse.
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Behavior: Older Parents: Good for Kids?
“Put off today what you can do tomorrow” has long been the motto of many baby boomers. Until, that is, the biological clock began its inexorable countdown.
Golden Gate Bridge Suicide-Barrier Plan Inches Forward
It takes four seconds to fall the 220 feet from the Golden Gate Bridge to the waters of the San Francisco Bay below.
All in the Family
As the founder and owner of ComputerLand, William Millard, 53, built a billion-dollar business on an old-fashioned notion: it is better to be feared than loved.
Sport: Courting Eighth-Graders
Little kids still ring ryan Boatright’s doorbell, wondering if the future University of Southern California point guard can come outside to play.
Valley Fever
LORI CROWN THOUGHT she was doing the right thing last year when she moved to a dryer climate in Bakersfield, California, after being plagued by asthma attacks during her six years in Hawaii. A few months later, Crown, 35, was suffering from severe headaches, a prolonged fever of 102 degreesF, swollen feet and painful bumps on her hands and legs.
Technology: Putting Knowledge to Work
Although supercomputers are dazzling in their power and engineering virtuosity, hardware alone will only partly achieve the eventual goal of computer scientists: the creation of systems that can mimic the decision- making powers of human beings.
Time Archive: Where Are All the Fathers?
“I don’t have a dad,” says Megan, 8, a tiny blond child with a pixie nose who gazes up at a visitor and talks of her hunger. “Well, I do have a dad, ; but I don’t know his name
Sex, Lies, Arrogance: What Makes Powerful Men Behave So Badly?
When her husband Dominique Strauss-Kahn was preparing to run for President of France five years ago, Anne Sinclair told a Paris newspaper that she was “rather proud” of his reputation as a ladies’ man, a chaud lapin nicknamed the Great Seducer. “It’s important,” she said, “for a man in politics to be able to seduce.” Maybe it was pride that inspired French politicians and International Monetary Fund officials to look the other way as the rumors about “DSK” piled up, from the young journalist who says Strauss-Kahn tried to rip off her clothes when she went to interview him, to the female lawmaker who describes being groped and pawed and vowed never to be in a room alone with him again, to the economist who argued in a letter to IMF investigators that “I fear that this man has a problem that, perhaps, made him unfit to lead an institution where women work under his command.” Maybe it was the moral laziness and social coziness that impel elites to protect their own
Milestones: Nov. 11, 1929
Engaged. Helen Douglas Robinson, daughter of onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Mrs.