From his sickbed, Garfield High legend is still deliveringJaime Escalante, 79, the math teacher who was the basis for the 1988 film 'Stand and Deliver,' is battling cancer. But he still has some lessons to impart. There was a time in East Los Angeles when el maestro's gruff voice bounced off his classroom walls. He roamed the aisles, he juggled oranges, he dressed in costumes, he punched the air; he called you names, he called your mom, he kicked you ...

NCDA prepares to battle mothsTideland News Writer Satellite populations of gypsy moths in Hammocks Beach State Park have the N.C. Department of Agriculture concerned. Currituck County and part of Dare County have already been quarantined due to the foliage-devouring moths, and Onslow County could well be next.

'Irish' food in Chicago isn't quite so in IrelandWhat, you may well ask, is Irish food? \"The Irish used to have a very rich, complex food culture, but that was hundreds of years ago,\" says writer Coleman Andrews. In The Country Cooking of Ireland (Chronicle Books, $50), he'scollected and refined more than 225 recipes, documenting both a historicand an emerging Irish cuisine. Both are pretty far from Chicago Irish fare.