Weiner traveled all over the world — to Greece ... On the "sweet spot of friction" Freud was an outsider, he was a Jew, he was an immigrant and there was real tension in Freud's Vienna.

“There is a maximum “stickiness” that occurs between any two materials called the coefficient of static friction,” says Weiner. “Coefficients for most materials range between a value of ...

While Lurie plays for time, housing activists have a clear-cut ally in State Senator Scott Wiener, a Democrat who represents San Francisco and has long been an advocate for more housing development.