News Analysis (Nov. 7) -- Every few months, my wife and I visit certain friends for dinner. As coffee is served, our elderly host reaches into a nearby drawer, pulls out his stash, and rolls a joint. Given the chance, he would not have voted the way most retirees did on Nov. 2 when California's Proposition 19 to legalize marijuana was defeated. Fifty-three percent of the electorate voted against the measure, but among those 65 and over, 66 percent opposed it. The media made much of tho

(Nov. 4) -- A NASA spaceship ventured this morning to the dusty edge of a bizarre comet, snapping crystal-clear pictures of its strange shape and bright jets.  Scientists and engineers in the spacecraft's control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., oooed and burst into applause as the spacecraft beamed down the highly anticipated close-ups of Comet Hartley 2. Some exchanged hugs and gave each other high-fives after the arrival of the photos, three years in the maki

        Is our solar system about to enter a cosmic 'cloud', as part         of a 12,000 year cycle?  We present this obscure but popular 1981         article for you to decide.              People all over  the  world  are  grasping, reaching out for         little pieces o