If commercial fisheries maintain business-as-usual catches on the high seas, the world’s major seafood stocks will collapse by the middle of the 21st century.

A widely used diabetes pill raises the risk of heart attacks and possibly death, according to a scientific analysis that reveals what some experts are calling another Vioxx-like example of the government failing to protect the public from an unsafe drug.

Not long after I was hired at Napa Valley College to teach political science, I received a friendly invitation to speak at the Napa Rotary Club. After a warm welcome and pleasant lunch, I gave a presentation in which I argued that the way in which the social sciences are taught would change once the baby boom generation began to exit academia. I reasoned that, whereas many of that generation view college as a center for activating students to go out and solve society’s many “problems,” later generations see the college as an institution through which students are given the analytical tools to discover for themselves what society’s “problems” may be. It is the difference between activation and education.

WASHINGTON — The research is persuasive: When drugs don’t completely control epilepsy, surgery often can — and the sooner it’s tried, the better.

“This fight depends on securing the population, which must understand that we — not our enemies — occupy the moral high ground.” — Gen. David Petraeus, May 10, 2007

Army Pvt. Daniel Gilbert graduated from basic infantry training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga.

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I've been looking forward to having our semi-monthly chat, and counting my blessings that I live in senior-friendly, beautiful Napa Valley.

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