San Francisco Chronicle

In a stroke of good fortune for all concerned, Summer Sanders believes there`s more to the Olympics than just winning-or even medaling. She moves about the venue as the best...

Twelve-year-old Patrick Reid on Friday became the youngest swimmer to make the watery dash from the Bay Bridge to the Golden Gate Bridge. The swim covered 6 1/2 miles and...

M.F.K. Fisher, the writer and food essayist whose sensual, elegant prose prompted poet W.H. Auden to christen her the finest writer in the U.S., died Monday after a long battle...

Video rental stores may have to carve shelf space for Ross Perot alongside their Drama, Comedy, Children`s, Horror and Triple X porno categories. MPI Home Video`s ''A Conversation With Ross...

Interior designers can`t get enough of sisal. They are using it to cover floors in living rooms, bedrooms, stairways, hallways and libraries. Once used mainly in beach houses and country...

Kate Degnan and Paul Frassetto of San Francisco have an excuse for a long Friday lunch on the patio of Tra Vigne in St. Helena, Calif. They are to be...

You know the old joke about the woman who goes to her doctor to find out whether she has premenstrual syndrome and he says, ''The good news is that you...

They share the same page in the phone book: Wedding Services and Weight Loss Services, the directory`s little joke about married couples. You`ve seen it happen to friends. Perhaps you...

Genetically engineered pigs are yielding bounteous supplies of milk loaded with a human protein that prevents blood clotting, a promising advance in the quest for valuable pharmaceuticals to treat human...

For the first several years I messed around with horticulture, I thought that gardeners who planted seeds either had greenhouses or were too cheap to buy seedlings in handy-dandy, pop-out,...