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Mention Girl Scouting and you picture girls earning merit badges, selling cookies and doing good deeds. There are three troops here in San Diego whose members do all those things, but they may not fit

A pilot program at Orlando International Airport allows passengers to speed through security checkpoints -- if they first submit to a detailed background check. The Bush administration is trying to decide whether to expand such "registered traveler" programs.

Wallace and Gromit employ their latest inventions to rid her estate of rabbits. But then Wallace has an idea. What if they brainwashed the bunnies into not wanting to eat vegetables? Then the creatures could be freed and wouldnt pose a threat to the local gardeners. Right about now you should envision Gromit shaking his head, knowing full well that something will undoubtedly go wrong.

In an op-ed in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times, former U.S. adviser Aaron David Miller argues that rather than giving birth to a new and better Middle East, the United States may help unleash an even messier and nastier one.

The San Diego Unified School District is getting a jumpstart on recruiting top-notch teachers for a new kind of high school. The revived Lincoln High School in southeast San Diego will actually house

Michela Wrong, author of I Didn't Do it For You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation, talks with Scott Simon about this cautionary tale cataloguing the disastrous interference of foreign powers.

College football's national championship will be decided Wednesday when Texas faces defending champion Southern California in the Rose Bowl. Six games on Monday offered a wild series of warmups, while in a final preliminary on Tuesday night, Penn State and Florida State meet in the Orange Bowl.

Hou Hsiao Hsien is quite simply one of the world's premier filmmakers yet his films are lucky to play a few festival dates here in the U.S. The San Diego International Film Festival used to champion his work and Madstone Theaters brought in Hou's

The Other Side of the Rainbow

The Land Has Eyes is the first Fijian film to be submitted for nomination for an Oscar. Linda Wertheimer speaks with its director, Vilsoni Hereniko.