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Mission to Mars "Bush's Mars plan is an election-year strategy: a weapon of mass distraction designed to divert our attention from the economy." Gail Moore San Francisco...
...MARRIED. PHYLLIS LYON, 79, and DEL MARTIN, 83, founders of the U.S.'s first lesbian organization, 49 years ago; becoming the first to take advantage of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's instruction to the county clerk's office to begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses (in defiance of a Californian law); in San Francisco. Hundreds of couples have followed suit. Opponents of the licenses are seeking a restraining order to prevent the city from granting more...
...company that birthed the first jean took note of Calvin when she developed a dark, rigid denim finish inspired by vintage styles. Calvin, then 28, with no formal design training, began creating innovative finishes for the San Francisco--based Levi's in 1990. By the time she became the company's U.S. creative director in 2001, she had reinvigorated the brand throughout Europe by blending its rich heritage with a young, sexy edge. "Caroline knows how to take something old and modernize it into something no one's ever seen before," says Tony Carnot of Swift Denim in New York...
...doors opened there last fall, Roy, a South African based in New York City, was already much talked about for the supple and intricate design proposals she exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in Manhattan and in a one-woman show last year at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. One of them is for a spa on the Okavango River Delta in Botswana. And we do mean "on"--the open-air guesthouses would float atop man-made "lily pads." Another plan is for her ingenious cross-shaped extreme-skiing facility in Alaska's Chugach Mountains, from...
...replay, that glorious past. On the anniversary episode last month, a clip was shown of Edward R. Murrow, in 1951, instructing his director (Don Hewitt! - everyone was young once) to hook up the first ?live? coast-to-coast broadcast link, between WCBS in New York and KPIX in San Francisco. (Alas, that station now carries ?CBS SM? in less-than-prime 6 a.m. slot. But that?s OK. Old people can time-shift...