LOS ANGELES -- By his own admission, Daniel Chong planned to spend April 20 like so many other college students: smoking marijuana with friends to celebrate an unofficial holiday devoted to the drug. But for Mr. Chong, the celebration ended in a Kafkaesque nightmare inside a San Diego Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell, where he said he...
In Los Angeles, a Wal-Mart building permit is getting a once-over. In New York, the City Council is investigating a possible land deal with the retailer's developer in Brooklyn. A state senator in California is pushing for a formal audit of a proposed Wal-Mart in San Diego. And in Boston and its suburbs, residents are pressuring politicians to...
WASHINGTON -- In a single week last April, 3 people were killed with guns in Philadelphia, 14 more were shot and wounded, 68 robberies were carried out at gunpoint and a total of 144 crimes involving firearms were reported. During that same week in San Diego, a city of roughly the same size with far fewer police officers, there were no gun-related...
San Diego er en havneby i det sydlige Californien ved Stillehavet, nær den mexicanske grænse.
Geografisk bredde: 32° 44´N; Geografisk længde: 117° 10´W; Højde over havet: 4 m;
San Diego havde ca. 2.644.000 indbyggere i 1995 og er næststørste by i Californien og syvende største by i USA.
San Diego er områdets center for kultur, uddannelse og hospitalsvæsen.
Fire universiteter er beliggende i området : University of California at San Diego, San Diego State University, United States International University og University of San Diego.
Industriproduktion omfatter primært store fly fabrikker, elektroniske- og biokemiske virksomheder.
Større flådebase, er beliggende i San Diego, hvor blandt andet grunduddannelsen til specialstyrken Navy SEALs foregår.
San Diego byder på mange turistattraktioner; blandt andet SeaWorld, San Diego Wild Animal Park, San Diego Zoo, Seaport Village, Old Town San Diego, Gaslamp Quarter og byen er hjemsted for NFL-holdet San Diego Chargers og MLS-holdet San Diego Padres. Derudover, er San Diego også hjemsted for utallige strande såsom; Coronado Beach, Ocean Beach, Mission Beach, Pacific Beach, La Jolla. Del Mar Beach Fold ud