Word: calif
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hughes for declaring himself a skeptic who saw only Goyaesque fantasies and nothing supernatural or divine when he was near death. Inundated as we are by the current wave of religiosity, it is refreshing to hear from an honest and rational man. JEAN AND JACK BROOKHART Huntington Beach, Calif...
...roots of De la Rocha's rage are in his hometown of Irvine, Calif. He went to a mostly white high school where, as a Chicano, he seethed at racist comments about "wetbacks" made by students and teachers alike. At age 17, he saw a show by the black punk group Bad Brains, and it was "a personal revolution." De la Rocha, Morello, drummer Brad Wilk and bassist Tim Commerford formed Rage...
...risks. While both corneaplasty and corneal surgery are treatments for refractive errors, neither is a cure for myopia. You cannot treat myopia comprehensively just by altering the shape of the cornea. High tech may be glamorous, but it is not always the best medicine. JULIE RALLS, M.D. Newport Beach, Calif...
Richard Parker loves to work from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. A member of the Home Depot night staff, he restocks merchandise and serves customers at the vast Marina del Rey, Calif., store, where 6,000 customers visit each 24-hour day. Parker, 28, views his team as "a tight-knit family. We are the gears, not the outcasts," he says...
...often does around this time, Bob Martin, 47, is standing on his head. Martin has just finished another frenzied day as a patent attorney at Hewlett-Packard's Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters, but instead of plunging into rush-hour traffic, he has descended one flight of stairs to the company's yoga studio. Soft music flutes through the room as half a dozen practitioners, high heels and neckties stowed in nearby lockers, bend and breathe to their instructor's directions. "It's wonderful," Martin says, rolling back to his feet. "I come down here and I let everything that...