Laying down the law at work … and at home (Affiliate Program)
Laying down the law at work … and at home
THE police force is very different today than it was when Caroline Scott joined in 1979. JOAN McFADDEN discovers how Scott balances her career and five children
Martin Kruskal, 81; mathematician’s wave research rippled through sciences
Martin Kruskal, the prolific Princeton mathematician whose work provided a theoretical underpinning for a new form of fiber-optic communications, controlled thermonuclear fusion and the study of black holes, died Dec. 26 at his home in Princeton, N.J., after a series of strokes. He was 81.
Superstitions work for Raiders Von Ahsen
When Williamsburg basketball player Tiffany Von Ahsen finds something that works, she sticks to it.
Bird deaths mystify Texas capital
Public health officials were scratching their heads over what killed more than 60 grackles, pigeons and sparrows found dead along Congress Avenue near the state Capitol on Monday morning, prompting a downtown lockdown that scrambled traffic and kept thousands of employees home from work.
Defending the death penalty all in a day’s work
When Dane Gillette goes to work each morning in the California attorney general’s office, he is greeted by death. He is California’s leading defender of the death penalty, the man most responsible for making sure death sentences are upheld in the courts and carried out at San Quentin.
Basketball Rainbows looking for wins, edge at home
The start of the spring semester on the University of Hawaii’s Manoa campus meant a day off from practice for the Rainbow Warrior basketball team yesterday.