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Killer Smile

Flouride will brighten your smile. It may also kill you.

Probably the closest many of us have come to the 50-year controversy over America's favorite dental aid is the classic 1963 Stanley Kubrick movie, Dr. Strangelove-Or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the ...

Issues / 1997 / Aug 07

Natural Cycles

Owners of Granary Market say merger with Whole Foods is a natural change--not the death of a local institution.

After 25 years of independent service to the Monterey Peninsula, the Granary Market announced Tuesday it would merge with natural-foods giant Whole Foods Market of Austin, Texas. This issue of the Weekly was published in ...

A Crop of New Ideas

Conventional crops make way for ethnics at the marketplace.

Citing a growing sophistication in consumer palate and a corresponding willingness to spend more for dinner, a handful of growers are turning to exotic produce as a way of carving out a specialized niche in ...

Home on the Range

Housing emerges as the first big test of Ford Ord reuse

With the Ford Ord Reuse Authority (FORA) embarked on efforts to generate housing for the approximately 37,000 new residents expected to live on the former Army base by the year of 2015, concerns have emerged ...

FUM With Water

A Fair-Use Management (FUM) model would give us ample reason to conserve.

The "no-growth dam" proposal put forth by the California-American Water Company (Cal-Am) is an impossibility. If Cal-Am tries to build a new dam on the Carmel River independently, without low-interest municipal-bond funding, the cost (to ...

News Briefs: Pass It On

Pass It On

Area residents planning hikes and day trips into the Los Padres National Forest may need to acquire a new National Forest Adventure Pass before heading out into the wilderness. This issue of the Weekly was ...