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Though he’d made prominent missteps, when Kobe Bryant’s helicopter fell from the sky Sunday, he was basketball’s most impressive ambassador. When he joined the LA Lakers at age 18 in ’96, he was the youngest NBA baller ever. He was always poised,...

The “VLA” isn't like a lot of other attractions you see in New Mexico. It says nothing about the history of Native Americans—or the Europeans who came here in 1598, but the Very Large Array definitely looks toward the past--it gazes so far back it...

Yoga's been female-dominated for decades. Of course, India formed yoga thousands of years ago, and men managed the whole shebang there, but in 1893, yoga came West and fell almost completely into women’s hands. In good capitalist mode, some pioneers...

Paperwork can kill a campaign. A political run is first born as a passing notion in the mind of an office-seeker, but its public birth is the paperwork-packed process of registering for candidacy. In past years, getting the state’s qualifying...

I always thought the god, Shiva, was the cool one:  Hanging out in Burning Man grunge, playa dust all over his bod, a snake bejeweling his neck, and unshaken by the goddess, Shakti’s, seductress dance. That said, I’m trying to get away from him. Away...