WHERE WORK REALLY IS A ZOO
Read Published Article Howard Baskin admits that a few homeless cats have won his heart over the years, but saving abandoned and abused lions, lynxes, and leopards was by no means his dream, let alone his passion. When it came to giving to animal causes, he might write a modest check to the Humane Society […]
FROM HIGH TECH TO HIGH MINDED
Read Published Article Ah, family memories—1960s antiwar rallies in Berkeley and trailing farmworker activist César Chávez as an 11-year-old, with his socially progressive parents. Add the weekly trip to Peet’s Coffee to buy a bag of freshly roasted coffee beans with his father.
Barking up the Right Tree
A botanist and a pediatrician follow their noses to chocolate Read Published Article As a kid, Deborah Langsam used to stare in the windows of the bakeries in Brooklyn, N.Y., and dream of what delicacy she would buy if she had all the money in the world.
FROM ONE GRILLING TO ANOTHER
Read Published Article Alejandro Benes vividly remembers standing in front of the White House on Oct. 20, 1973, with a group of friends, after President Richard Nixon had ordered the firing of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Benes, then a college freshman, and friends simply “were watching as people were going in and […]
LEARNING LIFE’S LESSONS
Ex-mortgage banker Cliff Stevenson is back in the classroom Read Published Article It was the day of his ex-business partner’s funeral, and Cliff Stevenson found a flier stuck in his door advertising a teaching degree at a nearby college. It struck a nerve, reminding him of his first career choice, which he had bypassed decades […]
