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Living Literate and ‘Happy’

In the witty and charming way she seems to say and do everything, Annabelle Palacios refrains from disclosing her age, saying that she “no longer lies” and thus, cannot provide any concrete information that may give away how old she is. One is left to wonder, as one is left to d

Living for the Future

The Coalition for Environmental Health and Justice-Communities Against the 710 Expansion is demanding there be no freeway expansion until current air quality is improved and policy changes are made.

Design, Dating and Disillusionment: If Only She Had Told Me She Could Work Me Like a Ball-Peen Hammer!

Dating should be easy in the land of beautiful people. Blame it on what you will—the sprawl, an obsession with perfection or an excess of egomaniacs—most of us know that it’s not. Two lucky strangers were sent on a blind date to document the explosion that resulted.

Magical: Menudo Herbal Mysteries of Mexican Healing

Traditional Mexican-American medicine is un rico menudo, a rich stew, with a long list of ingredients including 16th-century Arab and European herbal medicines, ideas that date back to Hippocrates, 20th-century patent medicines, plant medications from Africa, and herbal wisdom from North American native tribes. But the key ingredient is as old as Mesoamerica—the living legacy of the Aztecs, remnants of a vast treasury of herbal knowledge tha...