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No. 1 seed Stanford rolls past UC Riverside, wins ... Read »»No repeat here of 1998, when Stanford was last a No. 1 seed and lost to Harvard to become the only top seed in the men's or women's tournament to lose to the 16th seed.
Help File: Laptop battery life spans; a damaged US... Read »»
Q: When I lost power last weekend, my six-year-old laptop shut down abruptly, even though its battery supposedly had a full charge good for three hours. Does the battery have a problem?
Bus gets a gentile push (New York Post)... Read »»
Oy. A goy's driving my bus. The city is looking for a new operator for a private bus company that caters to ultra-Orthodox Jews traveling from the kosher enclaves of Borough Park to the Hasidic haven of Williamsburg. Some Hasidim fear a gentile company could take over the line...
A Happy Meal is forever (New York Post)... Read »»
McDonald's food not only tastes like plastic, it lasts as long as plastic. A Denver nutritionist kept a Happy Meal out for a whole year just to see what would happen, and was shocked when the popular fast-food item hardly changed at all. Instead of decomposing like normal leftovers...
Living on the edge: A settler's story of W. Bank s... Read »»
Yonaton Behar, 49, moved to a West Bank set tlement 23 years ago. The Stuyvesant HS graduate works as a fund-raiser and spokesman for the settlement's yeshiva and, with his wife, Jackie, has six children. He shares what it's like to live in the line of fire --...
'T.A.M.I. Show' finally on DVD (Detroit Free Press... Read »»
Filled to the brim with a truly impressive array of musicians, "The T.A.M.I. Show" (stands for Teenage Awards Music International) has always been the Holy Grail of rock movies. Perhaps you were lucky enough to see the legendary 1964 concert film during its initial theatrical run or during a rare TV screening. The film never had an official home video release, and that makes the long-awaited ...
Qns. murder-scene lawsuit is a bloody mess (New Yo... Read »»
It's bad enough when a man is murdered in your backyard. It's worse when the city leaves you to mop up the mess. That's the lament of three Queens women suing the city for failing to clean up a crime scene or keeping a promise to advise...
Dooky Chase's Restaurant in New Orleans is a class... Read »»
NEW ORLEANS - In a not-at-all-scientific poll of New Orleans friends, I recently posed the question, "What's your favorite thing about Dooky Chase Restaurant?"
A jagged peak, a measuring road (San Francisco Chr... Read »»
Good environmental art works not only on its own, it sharpens our sense of perception. This steep spike in the Presidio is assembled from 37 cypresses felled as part of the national park's ongoing reforestation, a carefully arranged bundle lodged in concrete...
A bow to Merce Cunningham (San Francisco Chronicle... Read »»
Today's cover story is a tribute to Merce Cunningham, one of the world's greatest choreographers, who died at age 90 in July. Read about him and his company, which performs this week at Zellerbach Hall, in Allan Ulrich's stories, beginning on Page 16. There's...