Please e-mail any tips or comments to fernandez_jay@hotmail.com.. UNITED NATIONS Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon faced one of his first tests Monday when developing nations sent him back to the drawing board with his plan to restructure the U.N.’s peacekeeping department.The setback could foretell troubles for the new secretary-general, who faces the task of reforming [...]

I see things in a Western way.Q: You obviously write things in a Western way as well.A: A lot of people think that where they come from, there’s no poetry, and that they have to go to New York or Harvard or Paris to be a poet. Jose Luis Orozco, 27, a known gang member [...]

Profiteering on the graves of the dead will be included in the accounting.”Lord of War” may not be the best movie ever made, but it makes a point we all ought to be pondering in an age of blood and avarice.Al Martinez’s column appears Mondays and Fridays He can be reached at al.martinez.. The Treasury [...]

Black and green tea both contain polyphenols — substances thought to block cell damage that can lead to cancer.Previous studies on whether tea might help prevent various cancers have yielded conflicting results. I don’t understand.”Club members, praised by airport manager Bass for their cooperation and civic involvement, appear to have no appeal or alternative. The [...]

In 2004, law enforcement officials confiscated a record 133,936 marijuana plants, pushing the state to No 5 nationally in the number of domestic plants seized. A more likely scenario, which occurred last year, would be for the Legislature to work out its differences with Schwarzenegger and place alternative measures on the ballot. Finally the attendant [...]

This deprived the industry of sales and created a fleet of undocumented vehicles.To address this problem, the Mexican government in 1999 required immigrants to leave a cash deposit of $400 to $800 per car when re-entering the country. Instead of the standard footboard at the end of the bed, his line’s twin bed has a [...]