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The Twenty Years' War is (almost) over

Barack Obama said: "The American combat mission in Iraq has ended" -- seven years after George W. Bush said the same thing. Mike Pilewski comments.

Surprise! Your behavior is on record

Mike Pilewski describes how employers in the U.S. are looking at bank and police records kept on people looking for jobs.

The mosque at Ground Zero

"Should there be a law against bad taste?" Mike Pilewski on plans to build a mosque near the former World Trade Center site.

Diji Shoyinka works out on Muscle Beach. Photo: Jan Stuermann

Muscle Beach is just south of the Santa Monica Pier. Its role in the culture of bodybuilding dates back to the 1930's. If offers a free gymnastics training area equipped with chinning bars, parallel bars and a small jungle gym for children.

The University of California, Berkeley, California

Get your degree (online) from the University of California

The University of California plans to become the first major US college to offer an online bachelor's degree comparable in quality to its campus qualification. The university will soon begin delivering its most popular courses over the internet.

The one thing America cannot do

"Do you know how many ounces are in a pound?": Mike Pilewski looks at America's slowness to adopt the measures the rest of the world uses.

A roller skater exercises on Pier 14 in downtown San Francisco. Photo: Jan Stuermann

Roller skating in San Francisco

The first recorded use of roller skates was in 1743 in London. Since then, roller skating has become a fitness hobby, a sport and a way of getting around cities. Today, skates come in two basic varieties: quad rollers and inline blades.

Nationality or citizenship?

Mike Pilewski asks: "Can you travel if no one recognizes your passport?" A Native American sports team found out the answer recently.

Ah, the sounds of summer!

There are better places to spend the summer than in a noisy German industrial park, says Mike Pilewski. What does an American city sound like? Learn some sonic vocabulary.

True or not, these legends inspire us

Mike Pilewski says artificial legends, like the one about the giant Paul Bunyan, are a testament to the American spirit.

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