San Francisco Chronicle

So now baseball's OK again. Cool, even. It's not too old-fashioned or too slow or too boring. The people who play it aren't the horrible ingrates they used to be,...

The Well, the on-line discussion group that pioneered the notion of cyber-communities, is in hot water. Membership, which peaked at 10,000 two years ago, has slumped to 7,000, and sources...

The Girl Scouts are spending about $100,000 to find out why they are best known for selling cookies. The $100,000 is going to hire a New York image consulting firm...

During the siege of Khe Sanh, the Vietnam War's longest and bloodiest battle, artillery and airstrikes pounded the U.S. Marine base day and night. The smell of rotting corpses and...

An unlikely coalition including Sen. Barbara Boxer, a liberal California Democrat, and Phyllis Schlafly, president of the conservative Eagle Forum, are joining to battle the Clinton administration over computer privacy....

The warning signal went off 21 years ago in Sidney Lumet's landmark film "Network." It's been ringing ever since -- although rarely as loudly as in "Mad City," a new...

Isn't it odd that the only time John Madden hasn't said "boom" to describe something is when there was an actual boom to describe? That would be during last month's...

In Dallas, they refer to the red zone, that area inside the opponent's 20-yard line, as the green zone--emphatically so. "When you play offense it's called the green zone--it's go,...

James A. Stehr, 54, started planning for retirement just a few years ago after an investment went sour and he lost his $20,000 nest egg. "Abject terror is what motivated...

For actors, turning 60 used to mean playing grumpy grandpas with canes or frail grandmas in sensible shoes. Think of Lionel Barrymore as the crusty banker in "It's a Wonderful...