Quiksilver in Snowboard Park Biz LESLIE EARNEST, Leslie Earnest covers retail businesses for The Times. She can be reached at (714) 966-7832 and at leslie.earnest@latimes.com
Greg Noll Oceanwear Set to Splash LESLIE EARNEST, Leslie Earnest covers retail businesses for The Times. She can be reached at (714) 966-7832 and at leslie.earnest@latimes.com
A Three-C Day CAROL FARLEY, * Carol Farley has written many books and magazine stories for young people. She says her eight grandchildren can have cranky, crabby and cross days, but they don't last very long
Real Cost of AIDS Is Humanity CALLISTO MADAVO and PETER PIOT, Callisto Madavo is vice president, Africa region, for the World Bank. Peter Piot is executive director of the U.N. AIDS program
Popular Support for Reform Inoculates L.A. Politics By RAPHAEL J. SONENSHEIN, Raphael J. Sonenshein, a political scientist at Cal State Fullerton, is the author of "Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles" (Princeton University Press, 1993)