Passing by the Shasta County town of Platina at almost 450 million miles per hour, there’s no time to stop and visit its gas-and-groceries store, its solid-waste transfer station (capable of handling 25 tons a day), or its couple hundred residents, including the brothers at the nearby St. Herman of Alaska Monastery. This trip […]
Sean J. Kearns
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Bouncing Sonar Off the Public
With the high seas awash in piracy, enemy submarines and unpredictably swirling geopolitical currents, the U.S. Navy wants its fleets ready to meet any potential threat. Readiness, it says, requires extensive training exercises on and under the ocean’s surface and in the air above it — with missiles, explosives and sonar. The Navy says caution, […]
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School Bus Breakdown
A staccato rain hits the metal roof, the heater hums, the engine idles in a rhythmic rumble, and the driver chitchats. For now, this school bus aside the curb at South Fork High School in Miranda is almost quiet, an empty-seated cavern of calmness on a Friday afternoon. Then … the door swings open and […]