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...have still been half-asleep but I distinctly remember him saying ‘San Diego is burning to the ground,’” recollects Poage, a native of Tierrasanta, a suburb in inland San Diego County...

Author: By Shayak Sarkar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: California Students Feel Heat of Wildfires | 10/30/2003 | See Source »

That message stirred up parents in the Twin Cities suburb of Wayzata, Minn., when Doherty lectured there five years ago. His talk sparked a communitywide initiative called Putting Family First. One project: a book, written by Doherty and coalition organizer Barbara Carlson, filled with such advice as making family vacations a priority and strategies for finding time to talk with kids about their day. The group also launched a website and published a Consumer Reports--style guide to local after-school activities, providing analyses of the time and travel demands involved in pursuing each undertaking--not exactly a laid-back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready, Set, Relax! | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...again or move on to others. "I considered it the most important thing I could do because it would bring an end to the war sooner," al-Timman says. On April 7 he milled with bystanders as rescuers dug through the rubble of several destroyed houses in the Baghdad suburb of al-Mansur. The Pentagon, thinking Saddam was inside, had struck the buildings. But the rescuers told al-Timman that Saddam had just been there briefly to inspect the damage and offer condolences for those killed. Al-Timman made sure that Saddam's body was not among those retrieved, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Collaborators | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

Growing up in Whitefish Bay, a suburb of Milwaukee, Wis., Lambert never even considered crew, nor did she have much of an opportunity to do so. “There’s no rowing there,” she says with a laugh, adding...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: English Major is Poetry in Motion | 10/17/2003 | See Source »

CNBC went off-line this weekend as they suburb-hopped into a new headquarters in New Jersey. Thankfully, a pastime more commonly regarded as a spectator sport was heating up, providing me with another way to fill my free time and saving me from a weekend of cigarettes and the shakes. The playoffs were my methadone clinic...

Author: By Philip Sherrill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: News You Can't Really Use | 10/16/2003 | See Source »

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