Like many newly married couples, Cristen and Jeffry Hays wanted to get pregnant soon after their wedding in 1992 but felt it best to wait. They used birth control until Jeffry finished three years of …
March 23, 2000
News & Stories
The down side of in vitro fertilization at UCSD
Learn how you can ascend San Jacinto Peak from base to top, an elevation gain of more than 10,000 feet.
Did you know that the trail hike with the greatest elevation gain in all of America lies only a hundred miles from San Diego? The starting point is the west end of Ramon Road in …
March 23, 2000
Jack got a much bigger present than he thought
“Room for another baby” came into my head like someone whispering over my shoulder.
March 23, 2000
Punk Danish
I once walked into a dermatologist’s office with a nasty, unnatural-colored inflammation around my fingertips. Right off, I thought it was leprosy. The doctor looked at it in a cursory way, not too interested, and …
March 23, 2000
Art of Glass
For the past 25 years, Peter Dreher, an artist from Freiburg, Germany, has painted the same 100-year-old, half-liter glass 3200 times. Dreher's method is simple: in either day or night, in either artificial or natural …
March 23, 2000
Legalize It!
As you'd expect of an architect, Héctor Osuna Jaime explains what he means by drawing on his paper napkin. Two football teams. "This is them. The narco-traffickers. They know everybody on their side is on …
March 23, 2000
Mobbed Up
The Brooklyn native with ties to the mob (busted here two years ago by U.S. Marshals as he attempted to flee from his posh Pacific Beach hideout) has been convicted of attempted murder and obstruction …
March 23, 2000
What is the Yellow Rose seen from Highway 94 about?
Hello, Matt: Thanks for taking my call. First-time caller; long-time listener. What's the story on the sculpture of a large, single yellow rose on the western outskirts of Lemon Grove? The sculpture in question is …
March 23, 2000