Collision Course

Remember the Beta vs. VHS wars over the best videotape standard? Now comes the battle over miniature floppy disks. Three firms are pushing different disks for digital cameras and cellular phones. They’re headed for a “collision,” says an engineer at Toshiba in Irvine.

Finding Dad

Before they can collect delinquent child-support payments, authorities must first establish a paternity connection. Last fiscal year, fathers who denied paternity were linked to 4,210 children. The figure was 8,482 kids this fiscal year.

Hunchback’s Home

“Cuddly” is used to describe Quasimodo, star of Disney’s “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” So where best at Disneyland to build an amphitheater for the “Hunchback” stage show-parade? The site of the old Thunder Mountain Ranch petting zoo.

School Menu

They’re called “cheeva,” “crip” and “ecstasy.” Translated: heroin, marijuana and an enhanced speed, all readily available at high schools, according to drug counselor Kate Pavich, above. Pavich hears what many parents never know--or would rather not know.