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NEWS, FEATURES & POLITICS

VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
Suicide Magnet: Bridge Attracts the Desperate
237 people have jumped to their deaths from the Coronado Bridge, but there's no public outcry. Why?
A special report
• Suicide Magnet II: No Barrier to Despair
• The Survivor: Wrong Place, Right Time
• The News Media: See No Suicide
• The Personal Story: Death from Above
• The Impact: Ravaged Bodies
• The Cop: Jumper Patrol

MEDICINE, SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

WIRED NEWS
Pop goes the science song
The Archies certainly never thought they'd inspire a song about energy production in muscle cells.

Mad-cow disease: Proteins gone wild

Regret is alien to UFO abductees
Chances are good that you know at least one person who claims to have been abducted by aliens.

CS MONITOR BOOK REVIEWS

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Spooks run amok: CIA's grim "Legacy of Ashes"

What's in a nerd? Plenty

Lincoln: A leader of grit and generosity

Pow! The 1950s and the comic-book menace

'Bait & Switch': How hard
can it be to find a job?

Joseph McCarthy's rise to power

MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

This week's North County Times radio column

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Superheroes spin web around red-blue divide

Historians strive to save old sounds

BUSINESS, HOME & PERSONAL FINANCE

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
Are you saving too much for retirement?
The idea that some workers are socking away more than they need is counterintuitive, but there may be something to it.

When resumes attack

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Who'd pass up 'free' money? Lots of folks

Pricey home,
dicey mortgage

Skeptics warn that homeowners are setting themselves up for a financial fall.

Lessons learned from city pension deficits

Branded in the workplace
Tattoos and piercings still aren't quite acceptable

Realtors engage in turf battle with discounters

ETCETERA

WIRED NEWS
Porn peddlers won't bare all

SALON.COM
The amputation fetish

For a New York psychoanalyst, the amputation of his right leg would be a dream come true. But the leg is fine. It's his brain that's broken