San Diego Magazine - February 2003 - San Diego, California

Cover Story
The Learning Curve, Part I Public education in California is a $30 billion–plus industry, and taxpayers foot the bill. The end product is our next generation of workers and business leaders. Will we get what we’re...

Cover Story

The Learning Curve, Part I

Public education in California is a $30 billion–plus industry, and taxpayers foot the bill. The end product is our next generation of workers and business leaders. Will we get what we’re...

Features
	The Incredible Shrinking Woman San Diego Magazine's copy editor changed her life by undergoing a little-known weight-loss surgery. By Phyllis DeBlanche
Private Eyes (Watching San Diego) TV shows and movies glorify the occupation, but the reality is that private investigators are hard-working stiffs who prosper via persistence and perseverance. By Kevin Cox

Features

The Incredible Shrinking Woman

San Diego Magazine's copy editor changed her life by undergoing a little-known weight-loss surgery.

By Phyllis DeBlanche

Private Eyes (Watching San Diego)

TV shows and movies glorify the occupation, but the reality is that private investigators are hard-working stiffs who prosper via persistence and perseverance.

By Kevin Cox

Departments
Error, Padres	Archive »
By not keeping the public engaged on proposed changes to the Ballpark District, the Padres and their development company have whiffed in a big way. By Ron Donoho
Front Pages	Archive »
The city of San Diego ponders spending a quarter of a million bucks on a rainmaker to cure our drought. Plus: catercorner confusion in Gaslamp Quarter crosswalks; Michael Jackson’s brother Marlon... By Edited by Thomas K. Arnold
America's Rugby Warrior	Archive »
Not many of us get career advice from old ladies in the grocery store. But when you’re an American rugby player starring for a beloved Welsh team, it comes with the territory. By Alex Goff