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Modeled after the groundbreaking feminist health manual Our Bodies, Ourselves, the book details the social, political and medical issues faced by transgender people.

More than 100 injured veterans from across the U.S. are in San Diego this week for the 6th National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic. They're learning life-changing skills through sports and recreational activities.

With a scarcity of jobs during the Depression, more than a million people of Mexican descent were sent to Mexico. Author Francisco Balderrama estimates that 60 percent were American citizens.

Cats of all sizes have a surprisingly elaborate way of drinking. Fluid mechanics scientists have learned that instead of scooping up water with their tongues, cats delicately flick them on the surface of the water, creating a jet they catch in their mouths.

Hundreds of San Diegans protested the decision by a Missouri grand jury not to charge white police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has called suicide an epidemic in the military. In September, the Navy will focus on efforts to prevent suicide within its ranks, by promoting intervention, communication, and better ways to navigate stress.

It's only been hours since Kmart announced its Black Friday plan -- to remain open for 41 hours in a row beginning early on Thanksgiving Day. But online critics are throwing a red light on the plan, with some calling the company a Grinch for its aggressive approach to the start of the Christmas shopping season.

Many couples who struggle with infertility say they would go to the ends of the earth to have a child. Some use surrogate mothers in the United States, but the high cost and legal complications keep that option out of reach for many families. So some Americans are going global --to countries like India- to make it happen.

Most sore throats aren't strep. But because strep bacteria can in rare cases cause rheumatic fever, people often feel like they should get tested for possible strep infection.

No one wants to return to the system of American apartheid. And public education, with its glaring inequities, is a reminder of all the work left undone.