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HOWARD LIPIN / Union-Tribune
On a day to remember those who died in combat, the family of Army Sgt. Michael J. Martinez gathered to pay tribute to the Chula Vista soldier who was killed in Iraq last year. Martinez's 2-year-old son, Landon, was joined by his mother, Natalie Gallardo, and his grandfather Manuel Martinez, the soldier's father, at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.
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Report: Iran hiding nuclear research
Watchdog suspects program may be focusing on weapons
By Elaine Sciolino
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
PARIS – The International Atomic Energy Agency, in an unusually blunt and detailed report, said yesterday that Iran's suspected research into the development of nuclear weapons remained “a matter of serious concern” and continued to need “substantial explanations.”
Housing skid leads to exodus of builders
Analysts: Many won't return when it's over
By Emmet Pierce
STAFF WRITER
The housing slump is downsizing San Diego County's home-building industry, as many of the large firms that helped create suburban communities scale back or close local operations. Companies that sold tens of thousands of homes during the recent housing boom are struggling to stay afloat until the downturn ends.
Court to hear insemination case
Lesbian's suit spurred by denial of treatment
By Greg Moran
STAFF WRITER
With its historic same-sex marriage ruling still reverberating across the state, the California Supreme Court this week will take up another case – with landmark potential – involving same-sex civil rights and religious freedom. The issue is whether fertility physicians at North Coast Women's Care in Vista discriminated against a lesbian couple from Oceanside when they cited religious beliefs in refusing to perform artificial insemination.
Bullets called ill-suited for close combat
Rounds lack lethal punch, experts say; Army unswayed
By Richard Lardner
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON – Strange as it sounds, nearly seven years into the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, bullets are a controversial subject for the United States. The smaller, steel-penetrating M855 rounds continue to be a weak spot in the U.S. arsenal.
1934 SYDNEY POLLACK 2008
Oscar-winning director was cinematic groundbreaker
By Michael Cieply
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
LOS ANGELES – Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay as director, producer and sometime actor whose star-laden movies such as “The Way We Were,” “Tootsie” and “Out of Africa” were among the most successful of the 1970s and 1980s, died yesterday at his home in Pacific Palisades. He was 73.
The cause was cancer, said publicist Leslee Dart, who spoke for his family.
