MAGAZINE
August 5, 1990 | BILL STEIGERWALD, Bill Steigerwald, a former Sunday Calendar copy editor, is a reporter and columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
THE OLD SALEM COLLEGE tennis courts on Main Street, Tomo and his Japanese pals Oni and Kai methodically slam low base-line shots at each other over a sagging net. A Sony boom-box blares a Motley Crue tape. Six local teen-age girls stand around smoking cigarettes, drinking soda and talking to several other Japanese boys. As usual, an after-school circus of 25 or so bicyclists, basketball players, skateboarders and spectators swirls around. But Tomo, Oni and Kai don't notice.
BUSINESS
April 23, 1990 | CRISTINA LEE, TIMES STAFF WRITER
When it opens its new plum-colored biotechnology laboratory at UC Irvine today, Hitachi Ltd. will become the first Japanese corporation to locate a research facility at the heart of a U.S. university. The laboratory, called Plumwood House, marks a new approach for Japanese companies trying to tap into the latest technology spawned at American universities. Until now, the Japanese have taken a subtle approach, building research laboratories on the fringes of major U.S.
SPORTS
September 11, 1994 | TERRY FREI, THE SPORTING NEWS
Less than 72 hours before Auburn held on for a 22-17 road victory over Mississippi in the 1994 opener, Terry Bowden is wired up and waiting in an Auburn studio. Via satellite, he is about to do a live shot with WBMG-TV in Birmingham about 110 miles to the northwest. When the newscast goes to a commercial, Bowden greets sports director Doug Bell, and the news comes through Bowden's earpiece that Bell's 10-month-old son, Brooks, already is 28 inches long.