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c6fd9ad2761d0e8a14860c9859da4d7d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-01-et-preston1-story.html | Retiree kept art hidden to the end | Retiree kept art hidden to the end
LONDON -- Jean Preston could have bought a lot of frozen dinners with the proceeds of two Fra Angelico altarpieces. But she preferred to keep the paintings in her spare room.
Preston, a retired curator, lived off her pension and ate frozen dinners in a small Oxford home until she died... |
9f9619ad651ad76bcec929251faa12bd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-01-fg-cluster1-story.html | Israel criticized for cluster bombs | Israel criticized for cluster bombs
In a rare internal critique of Israel’s use of cluster bombs, a government-appointed commission has found a lack of “operational discipline, control and oversight” in the army’s deployment of the weapons in civilian areas.
The panel’s statement, buried in an exhaustive report on Isra... |
2fcfb1ec69a51bb4f7472558c361dfd5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-01-me-beef1-story.html | State urges schools ban suspect beef | State urges schools ban suspect beef
The California Department of Education on Thursday urged school districts throughout the state to stop serving all but a few beef products after allegations that a Chino-based meat supplier butchered and distributed weak or ill cattle.
In an alert issued Thursday afternoon, the Cali... |
295a40c9b541e52ba66eb108d890ca03 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-01-me-maciel1-story.html | Catholic order’s founder was rebuked for sex abuse | Catholic order’s founder was rebuked for sex abuse
The Rev. Marcial Maciel, the Mexican founder of an ultraconservative Catholic order who later became the highest-ranking priest sanctioned by the Vatican for sexual abuse, has died. He was 87.
Members of the Legion of Christ said Maciel died Wednesday of natural causes... |
0dd93038bc72bd05976abc937c12aaad | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-02-et-artsbudget2-story.html | Arts budget boost dies in committee | Arts budget boost dies in committee
The latest bid to get California’s semi-starved state arts-granting agency off its five-year subsistence diet has died in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
Backers said the bill would have secured $30 million or more each year for the California Arts Council, which has operated ... |
cc5632d9755b37b77fb7b453f632e3ef | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-02-et-debate2-story.html | Obama, Clinton nail their parts | Obama, Clinton nail their parts
Forget Super Tuesday for the moment, my political couch potato friends. The delegate jackpot divvy will be here soon enough. In the meantime, there’s something else to consider about Thursday’s California Democratic presidential debate at the Kodak Theatre: The candidates’ road show fina... |
b98363d13b101695dc43130aeb5514cd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-03-bk-rifkind3-story.html | One times one | One times one
“I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning.”
Meg Rosoff’s third novel is not about old age, despite its narrator’s advanced years, and it’s not really about youth, although it recounts that narrator’s first teenage love. It is a book about the fluidity of ident... |
b10eb2df13359e00eeaaa2f36547b79d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-03-ca-davies3-story.html | It’s him behind ‘Doctor Who’ | It’s him behind ‘Doctor Who’
It was a damp and windy afternoon in Cardiff, and Russell T. Davies had a cold. Also, he had been crying. He had just watched the latest cut of a new “Doctor Who” episode, and one scene really moved him. “I’m going to look really stupid,” he later admitted to worrying. “But it was so beauti... |
a3c2e1f4906595c3003f981e0879eb69 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-03-fg-khabab3-story.html | Al Qaeda is said to focus again on WMD | Al Qaeda is said to focus again on WMD
After a U.S. airstrike leveled a small compound in Pakistan’s lawless tribal regions in January 2006, President Pervez Musharraf and his intelligence officials announced that several senior Al Qaeda operatives had been killed, and that the top prize was an elusive Egyptian who was... |
d6e7d52ce1cf14501f082043f786aaf5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-03-me-strike3-story.html | Writers, studios outline a deal | Writers, studios outline a deal
Hollywood’s striking writers and major studios have reached the outlines of a new employment contract, resolving key sticking points over how much writers should be paid for work that is distributed over the Internet, people familiar with the negotiations said Saturday.
A final contract ... |
538b6659574671475101a68af43ef430 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-03-na-olympics3-story.html | GOP spat began with Olympics | GOP spat began with Olympics
On Sept. 19, 2000, John McCain rose in the Senate to rail against what he called the “staggering” sums that the federal government planned to spend to help Salt Lake City stage the 2002 Winter Olympics.
“The American taxpayer is being shaken down to the tune of nearly a billion and a half d... |
2bbf2976281928da29e95fc1ee70e9ce | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-04-fi-colawars4-story.html | Cola makers target Mideast | Cola makers target Mideast
In one commercial, Arab pop star Nancy Ajram hands bottles of Coca-Cola to a young couple quarreling, and instantly, the two lovers make up as colorful hearts and flowers flood out from the bottles.
In another, Haifa Wehbe, a model-turned-singer and Arab world sex symbol, turns heads as she w... |
7f1ccfca748030e230ab4236feed07f4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-04-fi-online4-story.html | Online house calls click with doctors | Online house calls click with doctors
Consulting your family physician is finally moving into the 21st century and out of the doctor’s office.
Since the dawn of e-mail, patients have been pleading for more doctors to offer medical advice online. No traffic jams, no long waits, no germ-infested offices with outdated mag... |
cd0c74df8a6aca04167b9180e52bbbef | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-04-na-maria4-story.html | State’s first lady is for Obama | State’s first lady is for Obama
California First Lady Maria Shriver delivered a surprise endorsement of Barack Obama on Sunday, overcoming qualms about going public because, she said, the Illinois senator was the presidential candidate able to unify the country across racial, ethnic and other lines of division.
“He’s n... |
8884e0ca995e98ac5d18913c5c374840 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-06-et-obama6-story.html | Obama song taps the Web’s energy | Obama song taps the Web’s energy
The Barack Obama-boosting music video “Yes We Can” hit the Net on Friday and by Super Tuesday it had been streamed a staggering 10 million times on YouTube and the website www.yeswecansong .com.
Produced by multi-platinum-selling rapper-producer will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, the ele... |
afc60f7223898a4fa6edb36b389fdecc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-07-fg-rwanda7-story.html | Spain indicts 40 Rwandan officers | Spain indicts 40 Rwandan officers
A Spanish judge Wednesday indicted 40 Rwandan army officers on charges of mass murder and crimes against humanity in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwanda genocide, asserting a concept of justice championed by his nation known as “universal jurisdiction.”
Judge Fernando Andreu of Spain’s Na... |
f745075e2124e7a6f89d7ce06e087062 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-07-me-britney7-story.html | Spears is released from UCLA hospital psychiatric ward | Spears is released from UCLA hospital psychiatric ward
Singer Britney Spears was released from a psychiatric ward at the UCLA Medical Center on Wednesday after nearly a week of treatment and later checked briefly into the Beverly Hills Hotel, trailed by a parade of paparazzi, authorities said.
The release prompted an a... |
99601527ef85855bdc390ae7cbc1894d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-07-me-calif7-story.html | How the voting shook both parties | How the voting shook both parties
In the end, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s California campaign was carried to victory by voters like Maria Hernandez of Boyle Heights, who cast her first vote for Bill Clinton and returned Tuesday to do the same for his wife.
Clinton’s victory -- a romp compared with some of the predictions ... |
58fcf0680e9a1d2190beffb6106d9799 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-07-na-movie7-story.html | Anti-Clinton film group challenges funding law | Anti-Clinton film group challenges funding law
Television ads promoting movies are not the normal business of politics or the courts, but they are this month because conservative activists are seeking a wide audience for “Hillary: The Movie.”
David N. Bossie, who made a name for himself as a relentless investigator of ... |
6158e9278c9db2c7ccfd1b6543792a41 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-08-me-craigs8-story.html | Craigslist ad linked to alleged plot to kill rival | Craigslist ad linked to alleged plot to kill rival
It was a Craigslist ad to die for.
A federal grand jury here has accused a 48-year-old woman of taking out an ad on the website to try to hire someone to kill her lover’s wife for $5,000.
Ann Marie Linscott, a Rockford, Mich., mother of two teenagers who has been marri... |
4ba49df3aec03e712c12d55783aa7e86 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-08-me-profiles8-story.html | Officer’s work was a calling | Officer’s work was a calling
Patrolling Watts one day years ago, Los Angeles Police Capt. James Craig spotted a van in the street with a crowd of children gathered around.
The van’s occupant looked familiar. It was his former partner, Officer Randal Simmons, a rising star, in plain clothes and off-duty, doing what few ... |
e352aa1ecb367d7c77f02598a95a531e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-08-oe-stein8-story.html | The cult of Obama | The cult of Obama
You are embarrassing yourselves. With your “Yes We Can” music video, your “Fired Up, Ready to Go” song, your endless chatter about how he’s the first one to inspire you, to make you really feel something -- it’s as if you’re tacking photos of Barack Obama to your locker, secretly slipping him little n... |
a199661aed19c4c98aa50fbf28cb829a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-09-me-grant9-story.html | Photographer shot indelible images for Life magazine | Photographer shot indelible images for Life magazine
Allan Grant, a Life magazine photographer who got the last photo shoot with Marilyn Monroe weeks before her death and the first pictures of Marina Oswald just hours after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, has died. He was 88.
Grant died Feb. 1 of Parkin... |
18777d41d161c62166fc59c04f8cfc3a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-09-na-tornado9-story.html | Seeing God in storms’ wake | Seeing God in storms’ wake
God is not an abstraction at Union University. Here, business classes might begin with a prayer. Biology students are encouraged to take creationism as seriously as they do evolution.
So what does it say about the nature of God that the campus was shredded Tuesday by a barrage of tornadoes? W... |
71189ed2798aac6128607350940acf6c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-09-na-waiver9-story.html | California congressman subpoenas EPA | California congressman subpoenas EPA
The chairman of a key congressional committee issued a subpoena Friday to compel the Environmental Protection Agency to turn over documents on its decision to deny California permission to implement its own global warming laws.
Escalating the fight over the decision, Rep. Henry A. W... |
45b5622da010e0f33a1d657698dd138f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-10-me-yahoo10-story.html | Yahoo is expected to reject offer | Yahoo is expected to reject offer
Yahoo Inc.'s board of directors plans to reject Microsoft Corp.'s week-old $44.6-billion takeover offer, a person familiar with the matter said Saturday, marking the latest move in a chess match over the future of the Internet pioneer.
The board plans to formally notify Microsoft in a ... |
3f039f22f3bde6e1a92967b9d3a2c89b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-11-et-channel11-story.html | A fairly happy ending | A fairly happy ending
LET’S not kid ourselves. This town is so desperate to get back to work it’s like that girl auditioning on “American Idol” last week, who would have gladly given Simon Cowell her dog if he’d just put her through to Hollywood.
Well, three-plus months of unemployment can strike the fear of Peter Cher... |
87672f0cf31b7916aec194d022e6024e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-11-sp-crowe11-story.html | Waiting for smoke, and his grandfather’s name, to clear | Waiting for smoke, and his grandfather’s name, to clear
Probably the last thing anyone wants to read these days is another story about drugs and baseball.
But this one’s different.
This one predates by many years Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire and Roger Clemens and the Mitchell Report, not to mention public awareness of ... |
40619c92e0a4ee1ffd1bae498e3fe32d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-12-et-thriller12-story.html | How we were thrilled | How we were thrilled
There are two ways to listen to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” 25 years after its release. Scandal addicts will find trace evidence of the obsessions that would sink the greatest pop star of his generation into Hollywood Babylon: the repressed, explosive sexuality in his breathy vocals; the racial a... |
566e9657c13a0d3de2c817bfef9e3510 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-12-na-potomac12-story.html | Potomac primaries favor Obama | Potomac primaries favor Obama
A new battleground looms in a state where picnickers still flock to venerated fields of Confederate glory. The campaigns of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are gearing up for today’s presidential primary in Virginia, a key Southern state rife with knotty demographics and shifting p... |
d126bb492f128c98dc38266fcf44c2a3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-13-et-cheetah13-story.html | Author’s creation, Disney’s jackpot | Author’s creation, Disney’s jackpot
By all rights, Deborah Gregory should be sitting pretty: As a first-time author, she wrote the Cheetah Girls novels, a bubbly, 16-book series that became hugely popular with American tweens and teens. And she appeared to hit an even bigger jackpot when she sold the dramatic rights to... |
1db9c0b8452c51dceb9ba077349bdc6c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-13-et-cheetahside13-story.html | It pays to take the money and run | It pays to take the money and run
Battles between authors and studios over “Hollywood accounting” are nasty, and almost never resolved in favor of the writer.
Ernest Hemingway once noted that authors should drive up to the California border and throw their books over a fence while studio officials throw bags of money b... |
b0f5048e9fb1493fb3e812c51f715da2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-13-fi-gm13-story.html | GM posts $38.7-billion ’07 loss | GM posts $38.7-billion ’07 loss
Times are tough for General Motors Corp., and the mortgage mess isn’t helping.
The world’s biggest carmaker on Tuesday reported a $38.7-billion loss in 2007, a record for any auto manufacturer, after a poor fourth quarter that was made weaker by sliding U.S. sales and exposure to risky m... |
c2e6977710823e9babc16c7785f3fd60 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-13-me-harbor13-story.html | 2nd county hospital in jeopardy | 2nd county hospital in jeopardy
The honeymoon between the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and its health services director finally foundered Tuesday amid fears that a second county hospital could close.
Dr. Bruce Chernof, who has headed the nation’s second-largest public health system since December 2005, told ... |
6bd8c33b7358b656937d18df5c65c90a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-13-sp-coliseum13-story.html | Coliseum, USC reach tentative deal on lease | Coliseum, USC reach tentative deal on lease
USC and the Coliseum Commission have tentatively agreed on a lease that will keep the Trojans playing football at the historic stadium for the next 25 years, multiple sources said Tuesday.
The commission will vote today on a nonbinding letter of intent that sets the terms of ... |
4d06aa03b013e555ee4f8b62d3c9fd11 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-14-ed-redwoods14-story.html | Green vs. greener | Green vs. greener
It’s a dispute that could only happen in California. That it’s on the border of a Silicon Valley town called Sunnyvale is the icing on the cake. Or, perhaps, the M&Ms; in the trail mix.
For years now, Mark Vargas of Santa Clara and Carolynn Bissett and Richard Treanor of Sunnyvale have been fighting b... |
054cc78f937a76614e507aea6faab3a9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-14-me-oxnard14-story.html | Student is declared brain dead | Student is declared brain dead
An Oxnard junior high student who was shot in the head by a classmate earlier this week was declared brain dead Wednesday, and the 14-year-old male suspect now faces a first-degree murder charge, authorities said.
Lawrence King, 15, was declared brain dead by two neurosurgeons about 2 p.m... |
c6b05cbb436dc0c0ac14680913d1af1c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-14-sp-dodgers14-story.html | Dodgers heading into spring training | Dodgers heading into spring training
Who’s new
Center fielder Andruw Jones; pitcher Hiroki Kuroda; catcher Gary Bennett.
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Who’s gone
Left fielder Luis Gonzalez; pitchers Mark Hendrickson, Roberto Hernandez, Chin-hui Tsao, David Wells, Randy Wolf; catcher Mike Lieberthal; first basemen Olmedo Saenz, Shea Hillenbrand.
... |
e4ec4a546aebd6dfdbbe27671df2ff1d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-15-et-metro15-story.html | Another Cyrus, another career | Another Cyrus, another career
Trace Cyrus, singer/guitarist of the emo-electro band Metro Station, has the words “Stay Gold” tattooed across the knuckles of both hands. It’s from S.E. Hinton’s young-adult novel “The Outsiders,” a noirish and broken-hearted tale of teenage gang life canonical among tweens making their f... |
418254841b81597a0a19600d1ce7051a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-15-me-abramson15-story.html | Former national reporter for the L.A. Times | Former national reporter for the L.A. Times
Rudy Abramson, a former longtime Washington reporter for The Times who wrote a highly praised biography of American statesman W. Averell Harriman, has died. He was 70.
Abramson sustained massive head injuries in a fall Tuesday at his home in Reston, Va. He died late Wednesday... |
c1129c96ad10efe9e8dad56c6c878c3e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-15-me-clinics15-story.html | Officials object to clinic closure plan | Officials object to clinic closure plan
A majority of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors raised objections Thursday to plans to shut 11 clinics, even though health officials have quietly floated contingency plans for far more drastic cuts in the coming year.
Three supervisors said the county should look elsewh... |
060fa3608c3e0d8d5909a60cafd4f784 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-16-et-mexcenter16-story.html | Putting a spotlight on the massacre of 1968 | Putting a spotlight on the massacre of 1968
MEXICO CITY -- It was like Chicago ’68, only much bloodier, or Tiananmen Square ’89, only more shrouded in secrecy.
Even today there is no definitive count of how many pro-democracy demonstrators were slaughtered by Mexican army troops in the Tlatelolco zone of this capital o... |
f9ce3fb0d656464bd49ea4829e0882d5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-16-me-funeral16-story.html | Thousands pay tribute to a man who touched lives | Thousands pay tribute to a man who touched lives
The police officers arrived by the thousands -- members of a family bound not by blood, but by a uniform and a badge.
They were joined by countless other mourners Friday, inside a cavernous South Los Angeles church and throughout the region, to honor slain Los Angeles Po... |
695e67b3ef101d45b2b139d74d5009c2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-16-me-greenbuild16-story.html | Going green may be L.A. law | Going green may be L.A. law
Los Angeles, known for its choking smog and fuel-burning gridlock, is poised to adopt one of the toughest green building ordinances in the nation.
Two city council committees voted Friday to require that all major commercial and residential developments slash projected energy and water use a... |
88ce57f8301c969bb4d8202d5a27b9fe | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-16-me-statue16-story.html | Police strike pay dirt in hunt for stolen statue of miner | Police strike pay dirt in hunt for stolen statue of miner
The bronze miner who stood for 80 years in a Mid-City park suffered the height of indignities.
He was ripped from his pedestal in the park two blocks from Beverly Hills, cut in half above the knees and trucked to a scrap yard on Alameda Street south of downtown.... |
bd62ba64cf37e317e6d6b6fcb9bd7a9f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-17-na-intel17-story.html | CIA spy plan for post-9/11 era crumbles | CIA spy plan for post-9/11 era crumbles
The CIA set up a network of front companies in Europe and elsewhere after the Sept. 11 attacks as part of a constellation of “black stations” for a new generation of spies, according to current and former agency officials.
But after spending hundreds of millions of dollars settin... |
0641241d56f381c72f10cf466c19eba3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-18-fg-kosovo18-story.html | Kosovo takes a big leap of faith | Kosovo takes a big leap of faith
In a move that inflamed tensions in this volatile region, the ethnic Albanian government of Kosovo on Sunday proclaimed the province independent from Serbia, forming a new and troubled country in Europe.
The United States, biggest sponsor of independence for Kosovo, is expected to quick... |
bdeec28b7f42cc994d25d77a035b8456 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-18-fi-chinajobs18-story.html | Degree no job guarantee in China | Degree no job guarantee in China
Sun Yuanping skipped her college graduation ceremony for a job interview. It was an all-day affair and the bookish 22-year-old felt good about it. After all, she has degrees in marketing and botany from a well-regarded school in this central Chinese city, and she ranked in the top fifth... |
54d78c1868691ca3f1de6c5c1774f302 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-18-fi-gasdemand18-story.html | Fewer drivers over a barrel | Fewer drivers over a barrel
Sun Valley legal secretary James Eric Freedner got fed up with high gasoline prices.
He put his 2003 Toyota Tacoma truck in the garage and switched to a Honda Nighthawk motorcycle for weekday commutes to Beverly Hills. He stopped driving to the beach on weekends and cut back on trips to Hanf... |
6a45c94cc40a387669b19872a7370730 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-18-me-utla18-story.html | Judgment day at teachers union | Judgment day at teachers union
The band of left-wing, dissident back-benchers that took over the city teachers union three years ago faces a verdict this week on its revolution. United Teachers Los Angeles is holding elections, the results of which will affect not only teachers but also school-reform efforts and city p... |
020bec831b508809831ca865f3936a3d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-18-me-wu18-story.html | Geneticist shaped hybrid rice strains | Geneticist shaped hybrid rice strains
Cornell University geneticist Ray Wu, a pioneer in genetic engineering who developed pest-, drought- and salinity-resistant rice strains that are poised for widespread use throughout the world, died of cardiac arrest Feb. 10 at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 79.
The n... |
9c608868baebd4d99c4654eb6c0a1961 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-19-me-perez19-story.html | Singer worked to preserve fading Islenos language | Singer worked to preserve fading Islenos language
Irvan J. Perez, whose haunting a cappella songs in the disappearing Islenos language told tales of fishing, trapping and life in the swamps of southern Louisiana, died after a heart attack Jan. 8 at Tulane University Medical Center in New Orleans. He was 85.
Perez, a 19... |
72b2c8a3fecf250a6f448c6eee9b0411 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-19-na-superdel19-story.html | The art of political courtship | The art of political courtship
Before the telephone rang at 10:03 Saturday morning in her Philadelphia home, Carol Ann Campbell was inclined to use her position as a superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention to make Hillary Rodham Clinton the party’s presidential nominee.
By the time she hung up, Campbell had... |
77790db93a362b4195165006db8a8771 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-20-fi-birds20-story.html | Watch out for migratory birds, court tells FCC | Watch out for migratory birds, court tells FCC
When considering new communications towers, a federal court ruled Tuesday, officials need to consider whether they pose safety risks -- to birds.
The Federal Communications Commission must study the effect of rapidly sprouting communications towers on migratory birds and g... |
091b05a326bd942f3335d93300dc2365 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-20-fi-bluray20-story.html | Blu-ray winner by KO in high-definition war | Blu-ray winner by KO in high-definition war
Sony Corp. has finally exorcised the ghost of Betamax.
The Japanese company’s Blu-ray format emerged the victor in the battle to set the standard for high-definition DVDs. Its victory over Toshiba Corp.'s rival HD DVD leaves behind its embarrassing loss to VHS in last century... |
ea13b37b28099f50c6ac3ef957c201e9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-20-fi-medianews20-story.html | Bay Area newspaper publisher cutting workers | Bay Area newspaper publisher cutting workers
Bay Area News Group, the San Francisco-area newspaper publisher controlled by MediaNews Group Inc., offered buyouts to almost all 1,100 of its employees to slash costs.
The cuts involve newspapers including the Contra Costa Times and the Oakland Tribune, publisher John Armst... |
4c14bd8c05127e5801b29a9ff30bfac1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-20-me-envirojust20-story.html | Groups to fight plan for trading carbon emissions | Groups to fight plan for trading carbon emissions
Low-income community groups in five California cities launched a statewide campaign Tuesday to “fight at every turn” any global-warming regulation that allows industries to trade carbon emissions, saying it would amount to “gambling on public health.”
The 21-point “Envi... |
2837d2b796061b011d40d1b54036cd6d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-20-na-evidence20-story.html | Evidence rule to be reviewed | Evidence rule to be reviewed
The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to reconsider the reach of the “exclusionary rule,” a doctrine that has been controversial since the 1960s because it requires judges to throw out evidence if it was obtained improperly by the police.
Several of the court’s conservatives, including Chief Jus... |
fdede0e31537b070c2952075f5e8802b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-20-sp-cornerkicks20-story.html | CORNER KICKS | CORNER KICKS
Five things happening around the world:
1Steve Nash could walk into any Major League Soccer club today and make the starting lineup within a few weeks, but the soccer-loving NBA star’s passion lies across the sea, like so many others.
He might play basketball for the Phoenix Suns, but Nash’s soccer heart i... |
a5d802becb1267629fce342500fe5b3d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-22-fg-rape22-story.html | Rape allegation raises sensitive issues in Japan | Rape allegation raises sensitive issues in Japan
The Japanese prime minister has described the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl by an American Marine as “unforgivable.” The foreign minister declared that Japan has “had enough” of such incidents. And the government’s most senior Cabinet official promised that Japan wo... |
6dd878d4da92c18fd5596a332c2c49ef | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-22-me-ryan22-story.html | Co-writer of ‘60s rockabilly hit song ‘Hot Rod Lincoln’ | Co-writer of ‘60s rockabilly hit song ‘Hot Rod Lincoln’
Charles Ryan, the musician and songwriter who co-wrote the hit song “Hot Rod Lincoln,” died Saturday in Spokane, Wash., after a long battle with heart disease, his family said. He was 92.
Ryan and W.S. Stevenson wrote “Hot Rod Lincoln” and in 1955 Ryan first recor... |
f1701c3b011e9a29281d7856e086b3ac | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-23-ed-icbm23-story.html | Silent, aging guardians | Silent, aging guardians
To the voluminous list of ironies that attended the Cold War doctrine of mutually assured destruction, we can add one more. On its 50th birthday, the intercontinental ballistic missile, that once-commanding symbol of the apocalypse, has become a national security underdog, a defense system whose... |
a6b1ea542a6b814d310c69aed714ca4d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-23-me-macero23-story.html | Music producer collaborated with Miles Davis | Music producer collaborated with Miles Davis
Teo Macero, whose innovative work as a producer of jazz albums in the 1960s and ‘70s helped define the recorded sound of artists such as Miles Davis and redefine the meaning of studio production, died Tuesday at a hospital in Riverhead, N.Y. He was 82.
Macero, who lived in Q... |
85b38339b97a1bd39e79c0479340d4c2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-24-fg-gaza24-story.html | Israeli missile strike kills 3 Palestinians in Gaza | Israeli missile strike kills 3 Palestinians in Gaza
Three Palestinian men picnicking in a field in the northern Gaza Strip were killed Saturday by an Israeli tank missile, said a Palestinian official and relatives of the dead.
The Israeli military confirmed the cross-border attack near the city of Beit Hanoun but said ... |
27744a63d24128b5af9f9df64f33633e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-24-fg-iraq24-story.html | Rocket blasts rattle Green Zone | Rocket blasts rattle Green Zone
A barrage of rockets hit Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone on Saturday, casting doubt on the influence of a Shiite militia cease-fire less than 24 hours after it was renewed.
At least six blasts resonated across the U.S.-protected enclave, which is home to Iraqi government offices, the U.S.... |
76f70353f990d2f35e5b11e70907a80b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-25-fg-eurobama25-story.html | They’re the Obamas of Europe, or so they say | They’re the Obamas of Europe, or so they say
Europe can’t get enough of Barack Obama -- just look at a couple of the continent’s own elections.
Walter Veltroni, until this month the mayor of Rome, is casting himself as the Italian Obama as he runs for prime minister of Italy.
“Yes, we can!” he says in his campaign, to ... |
1a6fbdcce996a2f9b76571445eec1231 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-25-fi-ea25-story.html | EA raises the ante for rival | EA raises the ante for rival
Electronic Arts Inc. on Sunday launched a $2-billion takeover bid for troubled video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., stepping up the industry’s torrid pace of consolidation.
EA disclosed that Take-Two, the New York-based publisher of the “Grand Theft Auto” series, had rec... |
306746b7e27f4cadff8b5acfcbe12c12 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-26-fg-peru26-story.html | A new find is the Americas’ oldest known urban site | A new find is the Americas’ oldest known urban site
An ancient stone plaza unearthed in Peru dates back more than five millenniums and is the oldest known urban settlement in the Americas, according to experts here.
Archaeologists say the site, uncovered amid a complex of ruins known as Sechin Bajo, is a major discover... |
79662a1edd4fe28a164ada0461f7be97 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-26-me-duttons26-story.html | For Dutton’s books, it’s the end | For Dutton’s books, it’s the end
Mired in debt and uncertain about the future of his current location, Doug Dutton said Monday that he will close his iconic Brentwood bookstore, where thousands of authors have celebrated their works in the central courtyard and readers such as Dustin Hoffman and Meg Ryan have sought co... |
b3ea2b79191041fafde766f782b023ba | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-27-fg-argentina27-story.html | Argentine ‘dirty war’ witness is found dead | Argentine ‘dirty war’ witness is found dead
A retired Argentine army officer, called to testify about the fate of twins born to a political prisoner, has been found dead of a gunshot to the head, police said Tuesday.
The body of retired Lt. Col. Paul Alberto Navone was found Monday with a handgun near his side in a par... |
be9563a93ef63f461678ff3d4a10eed8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-27-fi-music27-story.html | More teens dissing discs in favor of online tunes | More teens dissing discs in favor of online tunes
Going to the mall to buy music may no longer be a rite of passage for adolescents.
For the first time last year, nearly half of all teenagers bought no compact discs, a dramatic increase from 2006, when 38% of teens shunned such purchases, according to a new report rele... |
b21193984aaf41f7fb99ec3ec5a101f2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-27-me-starbucks27-story.html | Starbucks causes grande upheaval | Starbucks causes grande upheaval
Jose Parilli and Candice Culp walked to a Starbucks coffee shop in Hollywood late Tuesday afternoon only to find the doors locked and a sign proclaiming: “We’re taking time to perfect our art of espresso. . . . We will be closed Tuesday, February 26 from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.”
“That’s not... |
388056372e8ba8a81355b4a8a9b941e1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-27-me-watchdog27-story.html | State political fines drop in chief’s 1st year | State political fines drop in chief’s 1st year
In the year since a former state legislator took the reins of the state’s political watchdog agency, prosecutions and fines for violations have dropped significantly while more cases have been resolved with only warning letters, agency statistics show.
That has some good-g... |
cb313e8ea9b8bb351d938458dbf95b1c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-27-na-waiver27-story.html | EPA staff turned to former chief on warming | EPA staff turned to former chief on warming
Some officials at the Environmental Protection Agency were so worried their boss would deny California permission to implement its own global-warming law that they worked with a former EPA chief to try to persuade the current administrator to grant the state’s request.
That u... |
73a5f0132a2762f8660e13b8ca6f5eda | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-28-fi-bp28-story.html | BP chief says firm may sell ‘green’ unit | BP chief says firm may sell ‘green’ unit
Oil giant BP’s chief executive hinted Wednesday that the company might offload part or all of its “green” business unit, reversing a central part of its previous strategy as he seeks to turn the company around.
Tony Hayward, giving his first annual presentation to analysts since... |
7922e5cf573b6f17e9a6b85627a324c6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-28-na-endorse28-story.html | Rep. Lewis switches to Obama | Rep. Lewis switches to Obama
Civil rights leader John Lewis dropped his support for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential bid Wednesday in favor of Barack Obama.
Lewis, a Democratic congressman from Atlanta, is the most prominent black leader to defect from Clinton’s campaign in the face of near-unanimous black support... |
f980847a2b6a10cce0f589d1f0121d59 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-28-na-scotus28-story.html | Supreme Court may be split on Exxon damages | Supreme Court may be split on Exxon damages
Nearly 19 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill fouled Alaska’s Prince William Sound, the Supreme Court debated Wednesday whether the world’s largest oil company must pay a record $2.5 billion in punitive damages.
The eight justices who heard the case appeared closely split,... |
ed3e7e7debe017adb901073be405797b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-29-fg-missiles29-story.html | U.S. warns Europeans of Iran missile threat | U.S. warns Europeans of Iran missile threat
With American officials working to close a deal on a missile defense system in Europe, the head of the U.S. program warned Thursday that Iran was within two or three years of producing a missile that could reach most European capitals.
“They’re already flying missiles that ex... |
68b700aa036b85a7a93cee6c022d714a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-29-me-vietdems29-story.html | Vietnamese voters go left | Vietnamese voters go left
Hoa Van Tran, a lawyer and U.S. Army veteran, has jumped into this year’s hottest election in Orange County.
The battle for a seat on the Board of Supervisors is shaping up as a high-profile, all-Vietnamese field -- a milestone in the Vietnamese American community’s growing political movement.... |
0cdb4e8750dcb1654374198bbd23f2b0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-29-oe-stein29-story.html | A little something for the ladies | A little something for the ladies
You know how ladies, when they don’t get what they want, can go a little crazy? Am I right, fellas? Right now, they’re pretty upset about losing their first chance at a female president. This would have empowered little girls, shattered sexist beliefs about female incompetence and forc... |
af60728e1edd1480c89d425dca498e43 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-01-et-saar1-story.html | The works get very personal for Lezley Saar | The works get very personal for Lezley Saar
Lezley Saar is only slightly out of her element in “Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art” at UCLA’s Fowler Museum.
An artist who became known for transforming old books into assemblages, she is now making strange wall pieces that she likens to a new ... |
ef85c9b6cee904b81f0c18f96888c7f1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-01-fg-nowheristan1-story.html | Virtual state’s utopia clicks with young | Virtual state’s utopia clicks with young
His hand adorned with silver rings, the self-proclaimed emperor of Nowheristan struck his slim iron cane firmly on the table, quieting a group of twentysomething Lebanese gathered around him.
“All great projects in history started this way,” he said, casting a piercing look at h... |
2480c33e0dff8b815ce86441e168d70e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-02-et-rutten2-story.html | ‘Slave Ship’ navigates a savage sea | ‘Slave Ship’ navigates a savage sea
Abraham Lincoln famously remarked, “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.”
In the many years since, something of the Emancipator’s moral point has been lost, along with the memory of what benefiting from slavery entailed. No one who reads Marcus Rediker’s searingly b... |
560eed62976b012c46f29d9461cb6a4e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-02-fg-service2-story.html | Israeli Arabs split over national service plan | Israeli Arabs split over national service plan
Seated in the corner of a bustling classroom, school volunteer Hanan Masarwa is barely visible amid a scrum of first-graders.
The 18-year-old Masarwa is teaching the children to add as part of an Israeli national service program created in August. The volunteer program is ... |
ae92ad4b6096fe92c396ebf57000d863 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-02-me-converters2-story.html | Thieves target catalytic converters | Thieves target catalytic converters
This holiday season has seen an explosion in thefts of expensive, platinum-laced catalytic converters from parked cars, and authorities report that high-clearance sport utility vehicles are the targets of choice for thieves.
With a common socket wrench and 90 seconds, they leave driv... |
d139f0ce4e62f861b4f272ba9c1679b9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-02-me-reclaim2-story.html | Sewage in O.C. goes full circle | Sewage in O.C. goes full circle
As a hedge against water shortages and population growth, Orange County has begun operating the world’s largest, most modern reclamation plant -- a facility that can turn 70 million gallons of treated sewage into drinking water every day.
The new purification system at the Orange County ... |
2576317c8f14f980a821112b9cc70a83 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-03-fg-gaza3-story.html | Egypt allows Gaza group’s return | Egypt allows Gaza group’s return
Over Israel’s objection, Egypt allowed hundreds of stranded Palestinian pilgrims en route home from Mecca to return to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday without permitting Israeli authorities to screen them for smuggled cash or weapons.
The decision ended a five-day standoff and drew a sharp ... |
59376a3e870aacea4ae50277682c1670 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-03-na-ciatapes3-story.html | Justice Dept. to probe the CIA | Justice Dept. to probe the CIA
The Justice Department said Wednesday that it had opened a full investigation into possible criminal wrongdoing in the CIA’s destruction in 2005 of videotapes of terrorism suspects’ interrogations.
Signaling resolve to get to the bottom of a case that has touched off a political and legal... |
655a8209131637711ce47d68c7764a5c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-03-oe-schnur3-story.html | George Allen’s curse | George Allen’s curse
The most important word uttered in the Republican presidential primary has not been “terrorism” or “taxes,” not “faith” or “family.” Rather, it was “macaca.”
Two years ago, conventional Beltway wisdom had Sen. George Allen of Virginia easily winning reelection and becoming the presumptive front-run... |
9ee95f831e2fdbc3d0e428182fbfb28c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-04-fi-amgen4-story.html | Amgen’s anemia drugs take fresh hit | Amgen’s anemia drugs take fresh hit
Anemia drugs sold by Amgen Inc. took another hit Thursday when government regulators said two new studies indicated that the drugs may increase the risk of death in some patients.
Based on the studies, the Food and Drug Administration may further restrict the use of the drugs, which ... |
5c355e3ffdf1dd926bf2f665d3f4a385 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-04-me-compacts4-story.html | Gov.'s TV ads tout slots deal | Gov.'s TV ads tout slots deal
In television ads that began running statewide Thursday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urges voters to endorse gambling expansion deals he struck with four Southern California Indian tribes.
The deals were approved by the Legislature last summer and were to take effect this week. But competin... |
b35d06bb88f5fa7a2f91519c4c75dc50 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-04-me-ladou4-story.html | California chef pioneered gourmet pizza revolution | California chef pioneered gourmet pizza revolution
In the days when pizza toppings mostly consisted of pepperoni, sausage, onions and peppers, chef Ed LaDou was a pioneer, adding gourmet toppings that had never before graced the face of pizza.
As the first pizza chef at Wolfgang Puck’s Spago and a developer of the firs... |
d8dba3cd464f557b54b982b8579ab14a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-04-na-demassess4-story.html | A vote cast for change | A vote cast for change
Barack Obama’s surprisingly convincing win in Iowa on Thursday upended the Democratic presidential race and overturned some of the fundamental assumptions of modern-day American politics.
Voters in an overwhelmingly white state embraced an African American candidate.
Women, given the chance to vo... |
e2dcbe6d1334adb4217cab693cff7526 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-06-bk-lynch6-story.html | Life lines | Life lines
LIKE Susan Sontag, my mother died of cancer. Soon after that, my father died. So, just as Sontag’s son, David Rieff, had been orphaned in his early 50s, I was orphaned in my early 40s. We both took up our family trades and inherited, likewise, a version, however modified, of our mothers’ core beliefs. Mine w... |
37b18530dfb95291ac7a996e409acfe5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-06-bk-proctor6-story.html | Make-up sessions | Make-up sessions
Anthologies are awkward literary beasts, mottled, slightly schizophrenic, fitful -- compelling the reader to stop short between stories, as one author’s voice, style, pacing sinks in and then subsides. Those failings aside, I once loved the anthology as a form of aesthetic manifesto, the editor’s self-... |
d360dbc6973773b25ed77eca888594eb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-07-na-obama7-story.html | For black skeptics, Obama cites Iowa | For black skeptics, Obama cites Iowa
Volunteers for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign fanned out into black neighborhoods over the weekend with new instructions: Tell undecided voters that Obama “proved the cynics wrong in the Iowa caucuses.”
The message about Obama’s decisive Iowa victory Thursday is familiar to th... |
3762720bad52c42e18c2808a52e7992e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-08-et-cruise8-story.html | Cruise camp rips Morton’s biography as ‘tired old lies’ | Cruise camp rips Morton’s biography as ‘tired old lies’
NEW YORK -- A lawyer for Tom Cruise attacked an unauthorized biography of the star Monday, calling it “outrageous, sick stuff,” even as publisher St. Martin’s Press defended the book.
“Tom Cruise, an Unauthorized Biography,” by British author Andrew Morton, best k... |
188ec23fc72ccb7953e3836b7c7b5c70 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-08-me-911stress8-story.html | Heart ailments linked to worries about terrorism | Heart ailments linked to worries about terrorism
Stress and fear about terrorism after 9/11 are giving Americans heart problems, even if they had no personal connection to the attacks, according to a UC Irvine study released Monday.
UCI researchers linked psychological stress responses to the attacks on the World Trade... |
da23e2d25ad77d1c950d19f7b40f350d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-09-fi-ces9-story.html | HD DVD camp stands by format | HD DVD camp stands by format
Had pundits bet on the HD DVD camp folding its hand in Las Vegas, they would have lost their shirts.
None of the corporate giants that back the next-generation DVD format have jumped ship at the Consumer Electronics Show here. But the huge momentum shift toward the Blu-ray format has at lea... |
e8c9f076f99e730057b8dd932dd16177 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-10-hm-dress10-story.html | Bridesmaid dress: from the closet to the table | Bridesmaid dress: from the closet to the table
THE bridesmaid’s dilemma: What to do with that dreaded, costly, unfortunately colored dress after the big day? In the movie “27 Dresses,” which opens next week, a serial bridesmaid played by Katherine Heigl clogs her closet with billowing chiffon, crepe and crinoline.
Wear... |
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