If you haven't driven through Boonville lately, it's time for a field trip. New buildings, old buildings with fresh paint and enticing facades, art galleries, an upscale "farm" store, the Hotel, and some good places to eat and taste wine line Boonville's "main street" along Highway 128.

Wine summit concludes with call for sustained wine industry leadership in green innovation, water management.

For the first time ever, all Bordeaux varietals are together. Yorkville Cellars holiday set is now only place on Earth with all Bordeaux wines in one boxed set, making the perfect wine gift.

guardian.co.uk | Mark Tran | Nov 24, 2009

Barack Obama is expected to send 34,000 more US troops to Afghanistan when he unveils his long-awaited strategy for the Afghan conflict next Tuesday, US media reports said today.

"When you look at the literature of human adaptation, what we know is that we are these amazingly exquisite communication instruments," says UC Berkeley psychology professor Dacher Keltner. He fears excessive dependence on technology is "depriving" humans the opportunity to properly develop communication skills.

Daily Californian | Chris Carrassi | 18 Nov, 2009

BERKELEY, California — Amid chants of "no cuts, no fees," about 50 union workers took up their signs on Sproul Plaza beginning at 5 a.m. to protest an expected 32 percent student fee hike at Wednesday's UC Board of Regents meeting.

Washington Post | John Amick | 15 Nov, 2009

Recognizing that the potential instability of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government remains a main obstacle to an effective American strategy in the region, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today touted broad accountability procedures in Afghanistan that will aim to combat corruption.