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Tom Deméré takes us to Mission Valley of 50 million years ago
J.David Dominelli's endless money and Nancy Hoover's skill at spending it, glimpses of TJ gardens, writers on their first day of school
More or less sudden mountains
- The rocks in and around San Diego have composed amazing, fiery stories for a very long time. An ancient ocean once covered this county; volcanoes used to spew here; and more or less sudden mountains rose and fell in San Diego more than once. This area is currently the most geologically active and diverse in the country.
- By Geoff Bouvier, Jan. 13, 2005
Nancy Hoover and J. David DominelliCaptain Money and the Golden Girl .
- He had a passion to do well. She had a passion to do good. Together, they touted his investment scheme, which bilked a thousand investors of $80 million. He has confessed to planning and running the swindle; her involvement is under investigation. From conception to collapse the scam was pathetically mismanaged — yet it wound up being one of the largest frauds of its kind in U.S. history.
- By Don Bauder, June 2, 2005
"All the men who work at Real del Mar have different names for the plants. One guy from one state will call a plant one thing, a guy from another state will call it something else."Tijuana gardens
- "Things began to change in 1993, 1994," Rodríguez told me as we sat in his living room. "When we paved the streets, the government paid for two-thirds [of the materials]; we paid for the rest. The changes came very rapidly. Electricity. Water. Sewage. There are older neighborhoods in Tijuana that don't have what we have."
- By Abe Opincar, June 23, 2005
The tears not yet dry, I walked up to a boy and asked, "Do you want to be friends?"When the loud bell rang – writers on the first day of school
- By Jangchup Phelygal, Laura Rhoton McNeal, Jim Morris, Rosa Colwin Jurjevics, Jennifer Ball, Rachel Kempster, Matthew Lickona, Jeannette De Wyze, Ollie, Geoff Bouvier, Sue Greenberg, Ernie Grimm, Joe Deegan, Tim Klepeis, Mary Grimm, Patrick Daugherty, Deirdre Lickona, Barbarella, Abe Opincar, John Brizzolara, Jeff Smith
- September 8, 2005