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The gritty realism of the film Precious is even more intense in the novel Push, upon which the film is based. Author Sapphire discusses the inspiration for her work — and her initial reluctance to allow her work to become a film.

Memorial Honoring War's Unsung Heroes in the Works

France's Albert Fert and German Peter Gruenberg will share the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics for a discovery that has allowed a radical reduction in the size and increase in the capacity of computer hard drives.

Drug companies are working to develop a pure, more powerful version of the nation's second most-abused medicine, which has addiction experts worried that it could spur a new wave of abuse.

While mob violence like the attack on CBS' Lara Logan is not the norm, sexual harassment in Cairo is an everyday occurrence — and most women have their own personal stories to tell. But Egyptian women hope the revolution will change all that.

Homeless Veteran Population Growing at Alarming Rate

These are local Vietnamese oriented organizations in the San Diego area.

The Great Poker Face on the Big Screen

On the evening Oct. 16, 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a raid he hoped would ignite a nationwide uprising against slavery. Tony Horwitz tells the story of how Brown's defeat helped spark the Civil War, in Midnight Rising.

Squash has traditionally been a prep-school sport. But some inner-city San Diego kids are getting a taste for the game.