Johns Hopkins University

SF Librarians Bust Johns Hopkins for Removing ‘Abortion’ from Health Database

One World, Under Gorby (Part II)

Gorbachev foundation prez Jim Garrison has something special in mind for San Francisco in September, an international palaver at the Fairmont Hotel. After that, a seat for himself in the U.S. Senate. And then, who knows? Chancellor of the world?

Matmos find inspiration in the Armpit, USA

Gorbachev foundation prez Jim Garrison has something special in mind for San Francisco in September, an international palaver at the Fairmont Hotel. After that, a seat for himself in the U.S. Senate. And then, who knows? Chancellor of the world?

Whistleblower

By most accounts, David Kessler's four years as UCSF's medical school dean were a rip-roaring success. So why was he fired?

Onward, Christian Lawyers

Why lawsuits filed by anti-abortion activists may be a blessing in disguise for the California stem cell institute

Kees to the City

The mysterious obsession with Weldon Kees, poet, polymath, and icon of San Francisco bohemianism

What the Left Got Wrong About Iraq

Anti-war activists ignored Saddam Hussein's horrendous crimes against ordinary Iraqis. Do they have anything -- beyond anti-Bush demonstrations -- to offer the oppressed in Iran and Syria?

Enslaved in Palo Alto

A domestic worker from Kenya has accused her employer -- a prominent African journalist -- of human trafficking

The Past and Future Fraud

Yes, punch-card voting machines are error-prone. The touch-screen systems planned to replace them may be just as bad.

Cex Education

Rjyan Kidwell enters the school of hard rocks, leaving his electronica stardom behind

Unarmed Soldiers

Building a peace army, one person at a time

Sign o' the Times

Another film production company leaves the city. Can the Bay Area Film Alliance help?

Bad Vibes

Warning: Meditating may be hazardous to your health

Science of the Lambs

Buying Dolly the duplicated sheep has brought researchers at the Bay Area's Geron Corp. to the threshold of remarkable frontiers in transplants and cloning. Do we want to follow their lead?

Letters

Buying Dolly the duplicated sheep has brought researchers at the Bay Area's Geron Corp. to the threshold of remarkable frontiers in transplants and cloning. Do we want to follow their lead?

Perverted Justice?

Or is a new law that puts sexual predators in long-term psychiatric lock-up really -- and finally -- justice for perverts?

SFPD can't tell a lie: It still uses unreliable polygraph to screen recruits

Even though scientists have discredited the polygraph, the SFPD still relies on the flawed device to screen recruits.

Ibogaine has helped addicts kick meth and heroin. Is it the trip that does the trick?

Even though scientists have discredited the polygraph, the SFPD still relies on the flawed device to screen recruits.