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...Awards are named. (Ackerman won a 1953 Hugo as No. 1 fan.) Forry was hooked for life, as he would later hook so many others. Three years later the teenager found his stride. He had his first letter published in Science Wonder Quarterly; won a contest in the San Francisco Chronicle with a story about a voyage to Mars; and founded The Boys Scientifiction Club ("I would have included girls but at that time female fans were as rare as unicorns' horns."). His dream of bringing together the writers and readers of science fiction was starting to bloom. He brought...
...most marginalized of minorities in America. The greatest ambassador of this brand of disco, at least in my mind, is a now little known producer and composer named Arthur Russell. A pockmarked gay Iowa farmboy and classically trained cellist, Russell spent his youth between a Buddhist monastery, psychedelic San Francisco, and ultimately New York City, where he produced dance music with a singularity deserving of his improbable biography. This proto-disco he has come to stand for was marked by a graceful sense of levity, camp, and a fundamental belief in people’s ability to appreciate complexity...
...shows us how far we have come, but also how far we still have to go. Harvey Milk, played by Oscar winner Sean Penn, is a man disturbed by the discrimination he experiences after coming out of the closet in New York City. Milk moves to San Francisco with his boyfriend, Scott Smith (James Franco). In California, the two become politically active, enlivening and inspiring the gay community to speak out against injustice. Throughout the film, Milk is shown making a recording, which he says should be played only if he were to be assassinated. On the recording he says...
...lease an electric car. Lingle hailed the plan as a major step in curbing emissions and rising energy costs. The state needs to do something; it spends nearly $7 billion each year on imported oil. Better Place is seeking similar deals in Israel, Australia, Denmark and the San Francisco area...
...address the problem, Forest Ethics, a San Francisco--based environmental group, has launched a national Do Not Mail campaign, modeled on the successful Do Not Call Registry. So far, 19 states have debated Do Not Mail proposals. But none has passed--and who knows if any ever will. Will Craven, a spokesman for Forest Ethics, says that's partly because marketers pour millions of dollars--and lobbying savvy--into manipulating our mail: "We now have a runaway supply of junk in the face of shrinking and even resentful demand." (See TIME's special report on the environment...