COVER STORY -- The Good News: Tracy Smith with three vignettes of good news: A coal plant putting out clean energy, a distressed school that has turned itself around, and “The Romeos,” which stands for Retired Old Men Eating Out -- a group of seniors who gather for lunch and friendship.
Editor’s Note: The writer has received a New America Media Ethnic Media Award for 2006 for his feature story profiling Latinos opposed to illegal immigration, reprinted here. NAM recognized outstanding ethnic media reporters this week in Washington, D.C.
AUSTIN -- Jill Sterkel says her dad would have accepted the honor of having the hardwood court for the University of Southern California's basketball team named after him with a modesty that might have belied his 6-foot, 7-inch frame.
North American television channel Spike TV has announced that Blizzard will debut the two-minute opening cinematic movie from WoW: The Burning Crusade, its hotly anticipated expansion for World of Warcraft, during the upcoming 4th annual VGA Video Game Awards. The event will be held on Friday, December 8 at the University of Southern California's Galen Center in Los Angeles, and will be hosted
Students, faculty and staff at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will have access to what is thought to be the world's largest visual history this month, when the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) deploys a 5.5-terabyte digital media cache of testimonies from the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archive.
Children and teens who smoke cigarettes have nearly four times the risk of developing asthma in their teens compared to children and teens who do not smoke, researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) report.Lead researcher Frank Gilliland, M.D., Ph.D. [click link for full article]
STEUBENVILLE — Franciscan University of Steubenville will be honoring “christ-like” charity in others during the 57th-annual Founders’ Association Dinner.
BERKELEY - Once Terry Doran moved to Berkeley from Southern California, he never looked back. He began his education career at the University of California at Berkeley, completing a degree in history and economics in 1965 before taking a job to teach at Berkeley High School in September of 1966.
