The assassins spotted Dalton Lee in the Miami airport. Later after it was all over, he'd remember that moment when they locked eyes and he smiled like he smiled at everyone. Often he would doubt …
September 8, 1994
News & Stories
Dalton's Luck: A San Diego Mystery
Who Juan de Fuca Straits was named after
Dear Mr. Alice: I’ve sailed the Straits often enough to know most of the snags and shallows. I also spent some time in La Casa de Contratacion de Sevilla poring through Columbus reliquiae to gain …
September 8, 1994
San Diegans' first cars: Susan Golding, Nick Reynolds, Sandy Dijkstra, Bob Dale
For me, first car was my parents’ car, a 1958 Hilman Lynx. This thing was a squat, 35-horsepower English import the size of a VW bug, except square. It had the aerodynamics of a grocery …
September 8, 1994
D-Day and eggplant
Dear Matthew Alice: A question and a puzzlement: What does the D in D-Day stand for? Why is the eggplant called an eggplant when it has neither the shape nor the color of any egg …
September 8, 1994
Everything you always dreaded to know about nursing
The father who abandoned Rashaad and his mother when Rashaad was three months old was watching that channel in a neighborhood bar. Hours later, Melvin Green showed up in the pediatric intensive care unit.
September 8, 1994