A Band of Misfits
Major league baseball season is underway, and for San Francisco Giants fans it means thinking the unthinkable. Can their team possibly win a second World Series in a row? The story of Giants and their victory last year is captured in the new book, "A Band of Misfits: Tales of the 2010 San Francisco Giants."
A Band of Misfits
Major league baseball season is underway, and for San Francisco Giants fans it means thinking the unthinkable. Can their team possibly win a second World Series in a row? The story of Giants and their victory last year is captured in the new book, "A Band of Misfits: Tales of the 2010 San Francisco Giants."
Helping a Sister City in Sendai
Sister city relationships between the U.S. and other countries are meant to promote trade and tourism. They make everyone feel good, but they're sometimes criticized as junkets for city officials and their friends. But when a massive earthquake and tsunami slammed Japan last month, the city of Riverside launched a campaign to help its sister city of Sendai.
Effects of WWII Atomic Bomb Still Unknown
The crippled nuclear reactor in Japan is bringing back memories of another kind of disaster: the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The strikes helped end World War II, but killed more than 200,000 people. For the survivors, life has been a long waiting game to see if they'll fall victim to the health effects of radiation.
Psych Experiment Hones in on Heroism
This year marks the 40th anniversary of a notorious psychology experiment. The Stanford Prison Experiment showed that normal, well-adjusted people could be cruel, even sadistic under the right circumstances. Now, the scientist who led those experiments is wondering whether the opposite is true.