Glass Half-Empty: Addressing reservoir water waste

By Shreya Parjan Brown is the new green. Burgundy blotches cover Santa Clara county on drought watch maps. A hotline even allows you to report that pesky water-wasting neighbor. And so we forge ahead. Another year of drought. Another year of meeting the stringent county goals of water usage reduction. But what if, at the same time …

Looking for a cure

By Andrea Schlitt Cancer /ˈkansər/ noun: An abnormal growth of cells which tend to proliferate in an uncontrolled way and in some cases, spread A simple definition of a common word, and yet when a patient hears this word in their diagnosis it is anything but simple. It’s lifeless, almost surreal, as the magnanimity of the issue …