Sam Earnshaw News Today

With so many breakfast options to choose from, it can be hard to decide where to go for that perfect omelet or bagel in downtown State College.

ONE definition of a consulting room is a place where one seeks information or advice from a professional, usually a doctor or a lawyer. Modern ones may be bereft of colour but with high tech electronics to the fore, their walls gleaming but bare, seating smart functional, the reception areas similar. Patients are assumed not to want any diversion from their symptoms or illness, being anxious, worried, in pain or scared stiff. My favourite one was surrounded by mountains in the remote villag...

Amigo Bob Cantisano, a ninth-generation Californian, put his life’s work into the state’s very soil — beginning, fittingly enough, on the first Earth Day in 1970. At an event at San Francisco State he listened to a speaker decry what pesticides introduced after World War II were doing to the environment, farmworkers and food. His course was set. Cantisano, a Bay Area native, joined a generation of largely urban youth who moved back to the land and began farming as a way to reform the foo...