On the hot, breathless, soft, fragrant afternoon of my graduation from Princeton it seemed that everything good was note merely latant but unavoidable, folded and in the bag. I’d worked like a Turk those past …
May 9, 1996
News & Stories
I wanted to get as far as I could from my father in La Jolla
Debris of an early spring garden in San Diego
Last year I pulled bucketful after bucketful of radishes from the ground. I sat on the patio and scrubbed them clean. I ate a few, but most times I’d forget to bring them inside.
May 9, 1996
How something can be reduced 2 1/2 times
Matmail: How can anything be reduced more than one time? Like in today’s U-T food section, rats given low fat got 2 1/2 times less incidence of cancer. I’ve asked financial experts (who use the …
May 9, 1996
Dead men can vote by absentee ballot
Dear Matthew Alice: What would happen if somebody filed an absentee ballot but then died before election day? Would their vote count? — E.B., Serra Mesa If you’re lively enough to actually get the ballot …
May 9, 1996
One out of four adults, regardless of sex, national origin, IQ, or mental stability, is a nail-biter
Why do so many people bite their nails? — Michelle, San Diego It's been studied scientifically, so there are a few reliable things we can say about onychopagia. Unfortunately, "why" isn't one of them. Every …
May 9, 1996
A precise account of the business from Donut Touch on Mira Mesa Boulevard
I buy a shortening they have designed only for frying donuts —100 percent vegetable oil. A mix of cottonseed and soybean. Nobody uses lard anymore. Shortening ranges from $15 for a 50-pound box to $22.
May 9, 1996
Peckerwood — white-supremacist high schoolers in Lancaster-Palmdale area,
Have you ever heard of a prison group called Peckerwood? I'm curious to know if this association is similar to the Aryan Nation or worse. — Brent, La Jolla A few of them have ended …
May 9, 1996