Cover Stories
The wind picks up; here and there sand drifts across the blacktop like wisps of cloud. On either side of the highway the dunes extend to the horizon, tan, impassive giants with sparse scrub clinging …
Startled, you pull away from the hand that wakens you. Overhead your image balloons and stretches in the reflector of the operating light, merging into the gurney bed where you lie, into cabinets full of …
Baca says that Mexican-Americans have been “colonized,” severed from their culture, and dominated by a class that profits from them. Yet Baca himself doesn’t seem much damaged by this colonization, not outwardly at least.
The meeting was going fine, until someone said “beaner.” Aristeo and friends left the meeting. “When an American calls us beaner, that goes for every Mexican. So when our hatred comes out, it goes for every American. ”
I wondered if the professor was just a good storyteller. Deborah Szekely: “The spirit of what he says is true, but in that book many of the people’s names aren’t even correct.”
When tickets for the upcoming Rod Stewart concert at the San Diego Sports Arena went on sale two months ago in the gray light of an early Sunday morning, the scenario resembled one of those …
I might have forced the money on him, but the day was too young to be ruined, and we had a four-hour bus ride ahead of us. Dad always wins because it’s not only easier to give in, it’s cheaper.
There are more hens than there are people in all of San Diego County San Diego County is the third largest egg-producing county in the nation. The 114 poultry ranches in San Diego, with more …
Let me tell you how to write a magazine article. It’s not just a matter of spotting some brilliant story idea hidden away on page eight of the Los Angeles Times or the Washington Post, …
At some time, very late at night, somebody plays an old tape of Jim Morrison and the Doors. They turn it up so loud that it drowns everything else out.
Amtrak insists this is not a commuter train. “A commuter train run is not 128 miles in length,” the Amtrak spokesman in San Francisco says with an edge to his voice. You can almost see …
Jehl complains that this is where the environmental movement has gone wrong. “We get so terribly concerned with little dickey birds and snail darters and we lose sight of the big picture.”
Across the Sea, in the area called North Shore, the flooding problem isn’t so bad, since they 're a little higher. Nor is the wind quite as unrelenting. The realtors of North Shore call Salton City a “blow-sand area.”
Bodies arriving here are weighed and measured before they are put on stainless steel tables. The tables angle down to wash basins; grocery-store scales hanging over these basins are used to weigh each organ.
On display in bookstores around town is a flashy paperback entitled Somebody Else Is on the Moon, by George H. Leonard. The cover painting shows an astronaut coming upon huge tracks in the lunar soil, …
It’s like building a house or a bridge, insists Tihiro Ohkawa. He sits at a conference table in his office at General Atomic’s Torrey Pines complex, drawing from time to time on a briar pipe. …