From race riots to "Chocolate Cities"
                                  PULSE. Plus: Take our quiz! How do you measure up on views toward homosexuality? By Kelly Yamanouchi.

                Eight letters between old lovers
                                   Poetry serial, part eight of eight. By Daniel Wolff.

                Straight-and-white TV
                                   Today's plain-vanilla programming gives us a skewed picture of reality. By Harry Mok.