For my nine-year-old, choosing a vocation is all about the gear. Now it's an astronaut, now a cowboy, now a fireman -- whatever equipment strikes him as cool that day. Last week while we were at Point ...

Nearly 10,000 boats bob on the calm waters of picturesque Newport Bay. But underneath the surface, 50,000 pounds of copper seep from their hulls into the bay waters each year, slowly killing marine ...