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In recent years, many big cities have suffered epidemics of fatal heat stroke, and scientists predict more-frequent heat waves. But global warming isn't the only factor. Big cities also create their own heat.

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Voters in the county’s second-largest city placed incumbent mayor Steve Padilla in a distant second place behind Chula Vista School Board member Cheryl Cox in a June primary. Reporter Amita Sharma ex

Modern sinus surgery is a lot less brutal than it was 30 years ago. And a lot more people -- around 300,000 a year -- are getting it. It's not a cure, but it could improve a patient's quality of life.

A San Diego theater stages a play about an outsider artist, reminding me of one who lives close by in the California desert. This is the story of our trip to meet Leonard Knight and climb his Salvation Mountain.

San Diego's largest book fair boasts readings by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Rae Armantrout and by the fair's founders, local professors Jim Miller and Kelly Mayhew, each of whom have new books.

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus is set to unveil the Obama's administration plans to restore the Gulf Coast and build it back better than it was before. Leaders in Louisiana, which is losing the equivalent of a football field of wetland every 50 minutes, say they need the federal government's help -- now.

More than a dozen Roman Catholic women in the U.S. who claim to have been ordained as priests during a ceremony on July 31 are now facing the threat of ex-communication and public condemnation. Critics say the women are not only breaking church law, they're undermining the women's movement in the church.

The death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko -- attributed to poisoning with radioactive Polonium-210 -- continues to perplex authorities in London. Did he have blood on his own hands? David Wise, who writes about international espionage, discusses Litvinenko with Scott Simon.

Women right's advocates have made some strides in recent decades. But most of the world's poorest are female, fewer girls than boys attend school and women are still vastly underrepresented in leadership positions. Former Ireland President Mary Robinson, the World Bank's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and columnist Nicholas Kristof explain the challenges of improving women's lives worldwide.