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by Tom Emch On May 11, at San Francisco International, shortly before the scheduled departure time of 6 p.m., a man will board British Airwa...

by Tom Emch Last passenger to board, a middle-aged Chinese, hurries across the ramp and into the plane. Stewardess Jacque Stallman closes t...

by Ambrose Blake (Tom Emch) The Grand Ballroom of the St. Francis Hotel is a large room. It's so large that you could set up tasting t...

by Ambrose Blake (Tom Emch) Now that we're back on Daylight Savings Time and the sun is coming up later and you're going to work ear...

by Tom Emch Dry snow, the kind the powder-hounds love, began falling early Monday at Alpine Meadows, the flakes landing noiselessly on a cru...

by Ambrose Blake (Tom Emch) Chili, also spelled chilli and chile, is a term used to describe, usually, the international dish chili con carn...

Staff writer Tom Emch likes to get away from the magazine to act out his favorite Walter Mitty foreign correspondent's fantasy. And th...