Power is derived from a 3.7-liter V-6 engine, which puts out a healthy 275 horsepower at 6250 rpm and 276 pounds-feet of torque at 4500 rpm. ...more

November 22, 2008

Olympic athletes devote their lives to sports, often sacrificing creature comforts and material desires in order to sharpen their bodies and talents for that one moment in front of the world where they stand atop a podium wearing a gold medal proving they are the best on the planet at what they do. ...more

August 20, 2008

Former Vice President Al Gore said on Thursday that Americans must abandon fossil fuels within a decade and rely on the sun, the wind and other environmentally friendly sources of power, or risk losing their national security as well as their creature comforts. ...more

July 18, 2008

There's no fast way of getting back to normal for soldiers who are deployed away from home for more than a year. Separation from loved ones and friends, along with an accustomed way of life, can be hard for even the toughest GI. ...more

July 16, 2008

Images of police with box cutters, slicing and discarding homeless people's tents as a fire and safety threat, cast a national spotlight on St. Petersburg's treatment of its neediest residents. ...more

November 2, 2007

As sunlight poked through the redwoods and a fiddler played 18th-century Scottish tunes, residents gathered recently for the Canyon Payphone Jubilee, a celebration that could occur, perhaps, only in this isolated, independent community on the eastern face of the Oakland hills. ...more

September 7, 2007