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In October, Grant Barrett asked readers of VoiceofSanDiego to suggest books he could read to quickly get acquainted with San Diego, his new home. He received dozens of suggestions and he shares some of them with us.

Psychiatrist Dr. Gary Small's latest book is a journey through his most unusual and bizarre cases, from naked headstands to hysterical blindness to fainting schoolgirls. Small writes about his challenges helping these patients over the years.

While diversity has traditionally referred to categories like race and gender, companies and diversity experts are increasingly considering a wide range of factors from age and sexual preference to disabilities and even weight.

No other journalist in memory saw as much history as Daniel Schorr. He was born the year before the Russian Revolution and lived to see the digital revolution. He was there before the Berlin Wall went up and there a generation later when it came down. He was born before people had radio in their homes but pioneered the use of radio, television, satellites and then the Web to report the news.

A small-time Florida pastor says he has canceled his plans to burn Qurans on Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. But that and other recent high-profile stories have helped reveal a growing anti-Muslim strain.

Wes Anderson Gets Animated

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday that politics did not influence the decision to spend millions of dollars in stimulus money on little-used border checkpoints while passing over higher-priority projects.

Oil has gushed into the Gulf of Mexico for more than a month, and public anger at BP has taken the form of a nascent but growing campaign to boycott its products. But such efforts might not put a dent in company coffers. Experts say boycotts can be "a very loaded tactic."

The opening of a formal criminal investigation into the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes raises uncertainty over the future of the congressional investigation into the same issue. The House Intelligence Committee plans a hearing on Jan. 16.

The 3rd Battalion of the 5th Marine Regiment is preparing to come home from Helmand Province in Afghanistan. They have been there for seven months in searing heat and freezing temperatures and have seen more casualties than any other similar sized battalion in the 10-year-war.