San Francisco Chronicle

Working Woman magazine essayist Ellen Hopkins asks the profound question: ''Does your office say bad things about you?'' According to Hopkins, there are three approaches to office decor: - The...

If you`ve ever dreamed of owning your own submarine-taking a Sunday cruise along a tropical reef without having to lift a fin-you can now choose from three recreational underwater vehicles...

Indoor Trout Streams of Missoula, Mont., builds trout streams in Plexiglas tanks suitable for living rooms. Water is pumped in to create a constant current, and its temperature is maintained...

A firm that produced a sweet-smelling air freshener made of flower petals, spices and scented wood chips has been shut down by Tulare County on grounds that it was polluting...

Low-income renters who were denied federal aid after last October`s earthquake are going to get housing assistance under a landmark agreement with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. A preliminary agreement...

Put a trade deadline in front of Warriors coach/general manager Don Nelson and he`s no more likely to ignore it than a hungry trout would ignore a well-tied fly. Acting...

When Wayne Thiebaud was a boy, he used to copy his favorite comic strips. He figured it was good practice for a budding artist. But he never attempted so much...

When her relatives turned her out of their house in 1987, Myrnalene Nabih decided to leave Chicago and start over. She counted herself lucky to find a job driving a...

Lora Alexander is the best women`s basketball player at San Jose State. She is 25, about five years older than any of her teammates. She`s a full-time student, a major-college...

Monosodium glutamate, the controversial chemical best known as the cause of ''Chinese restaurant syndrome,'' contains a major amino acid that the human body makes on its own and that can...