In the age of the Internet and virtual communities, we're told that a new kind of physical isolation from one another, by way of digital interconnectivity, is becoming the norm. Like the traditional town square, coffee shops offer a space to commiserate, to people watch, to strike up conversations with friends as well as strangers and to engage in face-to-face communication. The men discuss the rescue efforts for a few minutes, agreeing that it's an impossible situation, now that rescuers...

Instead of making the water go away in a pipe, they suggested making the stream wider and sloping the banks to allow the water to come out on the banks. A portion of the stream has a dike with a 6-foot diameter pipe and during heavy rains the flow of water fills the pipe. It s not very attractive, and we ve talked about solutions for years. We ve put broken concrete on some of the bank to keep it from eroding. We ve sprayed the banks to keep the willows from spreading. Herman Dierks Park...

Pat Burrell homered and drove in three runs, and Moyer overcame one awful inning to remain unbeaten against Florida and lead Philadelphia to an 8-5 win over the Marlins on Sunday. Moyer beat the Marlins for the fourth time this season and improved his career mark to 7-0 against the worst team in the NL. Then, as suddenly as the soft-tossing lefty was retiring batters, he got battered in the sixth. Not turning some of these would-be blowouts into tight scores sure would help. Burrell's RBI...

POLITICS On titanium dioxide, the whitest of white pigments In the latest controversy surrounding land acquisition for corporate projects, the titanium dioxide plant, proposed to be set up by the Tata Group in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu, has run into rough weather, with the local population. The company is striving hard to propagate the need for. POLITICS On titanium dioxide, the whitest of white pigments In the latest controversy surrounding land acquisition for corporate...

One Altadena resident heard a neighbor's dog bark for 10 minutes in the middle of the night, then the bark turned into a growl. In order to preserve your right to comment, you must follow these guidelines: No comments that are obscene, vulgar, lewd, sexually-oriented, threatening, libelous or illegal. And with a record-setting drought causing deer to edge into suburban areas browsing for food, the lions are following. Dailybreeze.com reserves the right to remove postings deemed...

On any federal lands where construction or disturbance of an area that has any potential of having any historic or cultural items, this is a requirement, Goetsch said. Before the trail markers can be placed, federal law requires a review to inventory all the archaeological and historic resources in the area. The project should cost $992,000, according to a funding agreement approved by the commission in February. There s only half a dozen companies in the nation that have the capability to...

The people behind a new enterprise called How On Earth are investing in the idea of "food less-traveled" for SouthCoast in order to increase regional sustainability and reduce the fossil fuel it takes to bring goods to market. It also is where anyone can stop in to find tasty heirloom tomatoes, vegetables in season, artisan cheese, free-range eggs, grass-fed free-range beef, or goat's milk. They come from seeds with lineages that trace back at least 50 years, before long-distance...

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