Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.

I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.

Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's.

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.

Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're going to change the world we live in, they - and all of us - have to be able to think about a world that works differently.

Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.

Cancer cells have had so many other things go wrong with them, genetic, non-genetic changes, that those cells, one of the things they then get selected for is that they have lots of telomerase because now the telomeres in those cells get maintained.

Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.