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Essay: The Problem with Venerating Aung San Suu Kyi
Are western policies failing Burma? And is our veneration of Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi partly to blame?
Transcript: Sharon Stone vs. the Komodo Dragon
Two weeks ago the foot of San Francisco Chronicle Executive Editor Phil Bronstein was severely damaged in an attack by a 10-foot Komodo dragon at the Los Angeles zoo.
TEXAS: Death of a Duke
In tiny San Diego , seat of Duval County in the heart of the south Texas triangle, a team of sheriffs, marshals, and Texas Rangers was closing in on its man. Then it spied the fugitive's 1969 Chrysler Imperial at the edge of a quiet pasture, and the search was over.
Women: A New Femininity
It was just a symposium at San Francisco's University of California Medical Center, but 1,200 students turned out for it, cramming the 500-capacity auditorium and spilling over into another building to follow the proceedings on closed-circuit television.
The Law: If Pot Were Legal
No qualms vexed John Kaplan eight years ago when, as an assistant U.S. attorney in San Francisco, he put drug pushers behind bars.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Legacy as Governor of California
Appropriately, the race to become the next governor of the richest state in the Union could well be a treatment for a Hollywood script: a multimillionaire taking on the wily scion of a political dynasty to succeed one of the biggest box-office stars of all time as governor of California. On Tuesday, Californians will decide if Democrat Jerry Brown, the current attorney general, a former governor himself and three-time presidential candidate, or Meg Whitman, the eBay billionaire who has spent a record $140+ million on her campaign, will succeed Arnold Schwarzenegger
Plagued by Prostitution, California’s Vallejo Fights Back
It’s Saturday night in Vallejo, Calif., a medium-size town 25 miles northeast of San Francisco, and the locals have hit the streets looking for prostitutes — not to do business with them, but to scare them off. Half a dozen members of a local neighborhood group called the Kentucky Street Watch Owls are out on patrol, walking the streets to discourage prostitutes and their customers from plying their trade in the community.
Education: Ginny and Gracie Go to School
Linguistic progress with the “idioglossia” twins “Pinit, putahtraletungay” “Nis, Poto?” “Liba Cabingoat, it” “la moa, Poto?” “Ya” For more than two years the chirpy little girls discussing potato salad so incomprehensibly in a language clinic at San Diego's Children's Hospital have been among the world's most celebrated twins. They have been tested and videotaped, charted phonetically, featured on television and offered contracts for the film rights to their curious story
Trying to Keep the Taps in California Running
Buildings may topple and lives may be lost if the Big One shakes the wrong part of California but another catastrophic consequence of an enormous earthquake in the San Francisco area may involve water. Two thirds of the state’s drinking water supply flows through the gigantic Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta region east of San Francisco Bay — and the levees that help direct the massive amounts of water south to farmlands and cities are so antiquated that many may simply collapse with a major temblor.