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Pronunciation maven Charles Harrington Elster is a longtime resident of Kensington and was my original co-host on KPBS’s “A Way With Words.” Charlie, the nation’s
Our world-renowned San Diego Zoo started with a roar — literally. On a warm September 16 in 1916, a century and a day ago, Dr.
Teachers change lives one lesson at a time and one child at a time. What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never
With Labor Day coming up, I’ve decided to share with you my checkered workplace history: My first job was working in an orange juice factory,
Much in the news these days is the spirited debate about nativism vs. “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe
At the nearly completed Rio De Janeiro Olympic Games, Usain (pronounced Yoo-sane) Bolt, the jet-propelled Jamaican dash man, retained his title as the fastest man
Starting with only a handful of animals in 1916, our world-famous San Diego Zoo is now home to more than 4,000 creatures representing 800 species.
Sometimes it seems that almost all Americans either play sports or watch them. Because competition occupies such a central place in American life and imagination,
You know that a bunch of sheep crowded together is a flock, a group of antelope loping together is a herd, a cluster of fish