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d350e21bc0216a46d026f82d7e42119a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-29-na-briefs29.s4-story.html | Gun advocate sues again | Gun advocate sues again
The plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down the city’s handgun ban filed a federal lawsuit alleging that its new regulations still violate an individual’s right to own a gun for self-defense.
Dick Heller and two other plaintiffs contend that the city continues to violate the in... |
5e0cb6cb5e78574082faee2b83a90a0a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-29-na-justice29-story.html | Sex bias seen at Justice Dept. | Sex bias seen at Justice Dept.
When Bush administration officials at the Justice Department dismissed nine U.S. attorneys in 2006, there were various theories as to why the prosecutors were being let go.
They were too soft on the death penalty. They did not prosecute enough illegal immigrants. They did not go after eno... |
224a5a3164d6af77e845537dada4240a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-29-oe-rubenstein29-story.html | Pickens’ ‘clean’ secret | Pickens’ ‘clean’ secret
Texas oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens is pushing a national campaign to make the U.S. “energy independent” through wind power and vehicles that run on natural gas. His blitz of TV ads featuring his own down-home voice has picked up a lot of admiring news coverage. To date, Pickens has yet to ex... |
58d83249c8fc0af408235ed5836f2528 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-30-et-pagan30-story.html | Pride of the pagans | Pride of the pagans
This is the first in a series of occasional articles exploring alternative cultural life around Southern California.
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If YOU think the meager little baton that Harry Potter has been waving around for going on six movies now is something special, you’ve never seen a real wand. The genuine article -... |
d44c061c56aa6b38cb212509b1587c4a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-30-fg-iraq30-story.html | Iraqi military launches crackdown | Iraqi military launches crackdown
The Iraqi government’s most ambitious effort yet to assert its authority over long-troubled parts of the country began Tuesday with polite requests to search homes in and near this capital of Diyala province.
It was a modest and carefully prepared launch of a campaign that Iraqi comman... |
909d22d3ae94c600eb4400c961cfe03f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-30-fg-olyspy30-story.html | China has spy gear in hotels, senator says | China has spy gear in hotels, senator says
China has installed Internet-spying equipment in all the major hotel chains serving the 2008 Summer Olympics, Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) charged Tuesday.
Brownback, citing hotel documents he received, said journalists, athletes’ families and others attending the Olympics next... |
8a0261b73c370bca3405a0aeb9362c10 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-30-fg-usisrael30-story.html | Strike on Iran is not off the table, U.S. tells Israeli | Strike on Iran is not off the table, U.S. tells Israeli
Bush administration officials reassured Israel’s defense minister this week that the United States has not abandoned all possibility of a military attack on Iran, despite widespread Israeli concern that Washington has begun softening its position toward Tehran.
In... |
e0cb6e9a3c933e88ae1fbf4e6abc6fd1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-30-me-fastfood30-story.html | Council bans new fast-food outlets | Council bans new fast-food outlets
A law that would bar fast-food restaurants from opening in South Los Angeles for at least a year sailed through the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday.
The council approved the fast-food moratorium unanimously, despite complaints from representatives of McDonald’s, Carl’s Jr. and oth... |
c47fe90442d63691c4edea7e5b9b6333 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-30-me-la-quake30-story.html | Why we rolled with the punch | Why we rolled with the punch
The earthquake that rattled Southern California on Tuesday might have caused devastation if it had taken place in some parts of the world, but relatively strict building codes ensured that most of the region’s infrastructure -- homes, schools, freeways and rail systems -- rolled with the ma... |
cc398fa1225c141c13b969fee0188d10 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-30-sci-vangogh30-story.html | High-tech study reveals work beneath Van Gogh landscape | High-tech study reveals work beneath Van Gogh landscape
Using a thin beam of synchrotron X-rays generated by a particle accelerator, European scientists have reconstructed a portrait of a peasant woman painted by Vincent van Gogh that had been concealed beneath another painting for 121 years.
The image, unveiled in a s... |
854250e7f853c2d4752f563f42f9a1ce | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-31-fg-nokorea31-story.html | North Korean families suffering as food grows scarce, U.N. says | North Korean families suffering as food grows scarce, U.N. says
North Korea is heading toward its worst food crisis since the 1990s because of flooding, successive crop failures and worldwide inflation for staples such as rice and corn, the United Nations World Food Program said Wednesday.
The agency shied away from pr... |
5f461bdbed766fddb080f4f3365e4e1b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-31-me-hall31-story.html | General Electric chemist invented process for making diamonds in lab | General Electric chemist invented process for making diamonds in lab
H. Tracy Hall, the physical chemist who invented the first reproducible process for making diamonds in the laboratory, kicking off a multibillion-dollar industry, died Friday at his home in Provo, Utah. He was 88 and had Alzheimer’s disease and diabet... |
3fb6adb2c8748b45a30216c69e8de927 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-31-me-power31-story.html | Power plans in disarray | Power plans in disarray
Does Southern California need a dozen or so new gas-fired power plants -- and if it does, can it build them? No one seems to know for sure.
The region’s long-term plans to generate electricity to serve a growing population and to replace decades-old dirty plants were thrown into disarray this we... |
2180b6f766d7f7501f166d06729dd895 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-31-sci-dino31-story.html | Ancient T. rex tissue, or just old slime? | Ancient T. rex tissue, or just old slime?
Soft, organic material discovered inside a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil that scientists believed was 70-million-year-old dinosaur tissue may have been nothing more than ordinary slime, scientists said in a study published Wednesday.
Researchers reported in the online journal PLoS O... |
3e3607b47d41c54e7f5463f51a2940ce | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jul-31-sp-xgames31-story.html | In the air again after an epic fall | In the air again after an epic fall
A year ago, skateboarder Jake Brown proved from which height a man must plummet, onto an unforgiving wooden platform, to have both shoes fly from his feet on impact.
Answer: 46 feet. Or about 4 1/2 stories.
That’s the vertical drop the skateboarder endured during his fifth and final ... |
774b4497aa31781da428b380e64702a5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-01-ca-monitor1-story.html | ‘Real World’ actually gets real | ‘Real World’ actually gets real
Last month, when MTV announced that the 21st installment of “The Real World” would be filmed in Brooklyn, it seemed like a statement of renewed purpose. Even though Brooklyn boasts a population of more than 2 million, this would be the first time the show has been filmed in a locale know... |
15042f67d421930fdb7be88838273844 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-01-me-justman1-story.html | A creative force on two ‘Star Trek’ TV series | A creative force on two ‘Star Trek’ TV series
Robert H. Justman, a producer who was one of the creative forces behind the original “Star Trek” television series of the 1960s as well as the 1980s-era “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” has died. He was 81.
Justman died Wednesday at his Los Angeles home of complications fr... |
d57d9fee1f399adca9d7bc146595cc48 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-02-et-book2-story.html | Wishing for falling snow | Wishing for falling snow
Inevitably, David Guterson’s new novel, “The Other,” will be compared to “Snow Falling on Cedars,” his spare, evocative 1994 debut about vivid characters caught in the aftermath of racial injustice.
And, inevitably, those comparisons will take the form of “It’s no ‘Snow Falling on Cedars.’ ” In... |
56e2fa0b0d8a291d2049e2066e287ffb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-02-et-camp2-story.html | Campfires, tents -- and dialysis | Campfires, tents -- and dialysis
Even though Jeannette Castaneda was 22, she couldn’t wait to get back to summer camp in Mammoth last August. Although she was looking forward to her favorite hike to Rainbow Falls and just being outdoors, she was most excited about returning as a first-time counselor.
Jeannette, who at ... |
ace739638e49056326274ce09c798970 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-02-et-channel02-story.html | The murky mystery that is ‘Mars’ | The murky mystery that is ‘Mars’
David E. Kelley, the prolific writer-producer behind such era-encapsulating hits as “Ally McBeal” and “The Practice,” wrote the script for the pilot to “Life on Mars,” a new time-traveling cop drama from ABC. It’s based on the BBC show of the same name, which already has a cult followin... |
bc7377502d1735082be9e4648fb926d7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-02-et-memories2-story.html | Gone but preserved in memorable films | Gone but preserved in memorable films
It was where Robert Zemeckis shot the electrifying clock-tower climax with Michael J. Fox in “Back to the Future.” It was also the courthouse backdrop for Gregory Peck’s Oscar-winning performance in “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
In addition to engulfing a soundstage, a video vault and p... |
f085de1508c43eccf507cb60dc6dc6fb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-02-fi-wedding2-story.html | Same-sex weddings could be a gift to California’s economy | Same-sex weddings could be a gift to California’s economy
Forget economic stimulus checks. Same-sex marriages may give California just the financial boost it needs.
Wedding planners, bakers and hotels began booking more business almost immediately after the state Supreme Court’s May 15 decision overturning a ban on gay... |
b2c69649e60d851969e7efec53cbdc7f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-02-he-regain2-story.html | Keeping it off | Keeping it off
In HER 39 years, Claudia Hallblom has, by her own estimation, lost and regained about 1,000 pounds.
Her success at losing weight was always driven by a goal, such as looking nice for her graduation or wedding. Her tactics usually included strict calorie-counting. But success on the scales was always flee... |
79dab610754a1ce9fc01a8dee36793e7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-02-na-dems2-story.html | Key Clinton backers take eyes off prize | Key Clinton backers take eyes off prize
Pointing the way to a peaceful end for the tumultuous presidential primary campaign, some key supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that they accepted a new finish line in the race for delegates, a threshold Barack Obama could reach as soon as this week.
Obama aides sa... |
d9053dfd2b0e73ce596c449a17262899 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-02-sp-briefing2-story.html | Trainer for Big Brown talks big | Trainer for Big Brown talks big
With the Belmont Stakes coming up Saturday, it should be a fun week listening to trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. He’s already talking big about Big Brown.
Dutrow didn’t hold anything back when, on a conference call with reporters last week, he was asked about his horse’s chances of winning the B... |
3b55b38caaea44c63f2086e680c2bc16 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-03-me-amendment3-story.html | Voters will decide on gay marriage | Voters will decide on gay marriage
Setting the stage for a political showdown, the California secretary of state today said an initiative barring gay marriage had enough signatures to qualify for the Nov. 4 ballot.
The proposal would amend the state Constitution to define marriage as a union “between a man and a woman”... |
7fdc74bc5285345d04c15ce1bd79fe16 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-03-me-firouz3-story.html | Emigre helped revive Caspian horse breed found in Iran | Emigre helped revive Caspian horse breed found in Iran
Louise Firouz, an American expatriate in Iran credited with saving the pony-sized Caspian horse from extinction and championing an ancestral link to the prized Arabian breed, died of lung and liver failure May 25 at a hospital near her home in northeastern Iran. Sh... |
919fc234a62d8482f852af7f5d438e99 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-03-me-studiofire3-story.html | Studio work crew linked to fire | Studio work crew linked to fire
The dramatic Sunday blaze that destroyed portions of the Universal Studios Hollywood back lot was accidentally touched off by company employees using a blowtorch to heat asphalt roofing shingles, authorities said.
Los Angeles County fire officials said two workers and a supervisor were p... |
0417a17ef53fa3613bc267774a3f93e3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-03-na-campaign3-story.html | Fight goes on, for now | Fight goes on, for now
When Hillary Rodham Clinton dropped by Tally’s Restaurant on Monday, it seemed like a routine stop at a Great Plains landmark famous for pigs in a blanket made with buffalo sausage.
She posed for photos and talked to customers about healthcare and student loans, shaking her head at the debt that ... |
0a0fdbdc4ace17eccc6db2c1be0dfab7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-04-ed-cars4-story.html | New rules of the road | New rules of the road
In some of L.A.'s wealthier neighborhoods, the homeowners seem to have swapped cars with the hired help. While just last year the well-off were commuting to work in SUVs even as domestic workers pulled into their neighborhoods in cheap subcompacts, today you’re likelier to see the moneyed set behi... |
4745e4464f70180cd41660c3c74e7fe1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-04-fi-mcmahon4-story.html | Mortgage turmoil snares Ed McMahon | Mortgage turmoil snares Ed McMahon
Ed McMahon, the longtime sidekick to Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show,” is fighting to avoid foreclosure on his multimillion-dollar Beverly Hills estate.
McMahon defaulted on $4.8 million in mortgage loans with a unit of Countrywide Financial Corp., which filed a notice of default i... |
8ff7700e78875560034a494ebfe74a65 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-04-na-obamawins4-story.html | From underdog to alpha | From underdog to alpha
Barack Obama was composing his speech the night Hillary Rodham Clinton won New Hampshire, saving her presidential campaign. He glanced up to see Jim Margolis, his media strategist.
“Well?” Obama asked.
“Well,” Margolis recalls replying. “I guess we’re going to have to do it the hard way.”
It was ... |
f3a8ec110261349120be8a344aba4926 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-04-sp-mexico4-story.html | Mexico’s choice not that popular | Mexico’s choice not that popular
Like an Acapulco cliff diver leaping into the unknown, Mexico’s soccer federation Tuesday took the plunge and named Sven-Goran Eriksson as its national coach.
This is unchartered territory for Mexico -- selecting a high-profile European coach who speaks little Spanish, to take over a te... |
0ec79c76adf1e95052f49d1578093aae | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-05-me-drought5-story.html | Gov. proclaims statewide drought | Gov. proclaims statewide drought
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proclaimed a statewide drought Wednesday, warning that California’s water supply is falling dangerously low because of below-average rainfall and court-ordered water restrictions aimed at protecting fish.
“We must recognize the severity of this crisis we face,... |
fd33c8df67ba030ec11a1481a2d5fd4e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-05-me-marriage5-story.html | Bids to halt gay marriages rejected | Bids to halt gay marriages rejected
Gay couples in California rushed to set wedding dates Wednesday after the California Supreme Court’s unusually quick rejection of challenges to its historic decision permitting same-sex couples to wed.
By rejecting petitions asking for reconsideration of the May 15 ruling, the court,... |
8021d68c4dbccef6e024a3074260605a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-05-me-props5-story.html | Prop. 98 backers seek eminent domain limits | Prop. 98 backers seek eminent domain limits
Backers of the defeated Proposition 98, which would have phased out rent control and broadly limited government’s ability to take private property, vowed Wednesday to take the eminent domain issue to the state Capitol, in hopes of persuading legislators to do what voters woul... |
5b19c7b6978fff7ca711a5a05e0d9e4f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-05-na-campaign5-story.html | Clinton set to end run, back Obama | Clinton set to end run, back Obama
Bowing to pressure and the unyielding political math, Hillary Rodham Clinton will end her history-making campaign Saturday and endorse Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, aides said Wednesday.
Clinton’s decision followed a day of private consultation with donors, ... |
94cb96c88fa6fb57159c38c64519fb82 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-06-fi-nicholas6-story.html | O.C. tech billionaire indicted | O.C. tech billionaire indicted
Somewhere in the skies between Orange County and Las Vegas, federal prosecutors say, Broadcom Corp. co-founder and hard-partying billionaire Henry T. Nicholas III gave new meaning to the term “highflying.”
Winging their way to Sin City in 2001, Nicholas and his entourage generated so much... |
f738958fdffca2f6f9892e8ceacd8d8a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-06-me-redlightmoney6-story.html | L.A. is a loser on red light cameras | L.A. is a loser on red light cameras
When it comes to collecting traffic ticket revenue from red light cameras, Culver City has been king in Los Angeles County.
The city generated nearly $2 million in photo ticket fines in the last eight months -- hundreds of thousands more than Los Angeles, which had cameras at twice ... |
958e8073622284ee84bfd89da86aee9c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-07-et-kusc7-story.html | KUSC finds tempo with a local angle | KUSC finds tempo with a local angle
In THE last year, listeners to classical music radio in Los Angeles have noticed something different about segments of the weekday sound of KUSC-FM (91.5) -- evidence of human beings talking to them live between the symphonies and concertos of Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms. It’s a cha... |
b6b1e2f285745e9a122345bd47dea846 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-07-fi-garage7-story.html | Hummer: Requiem for a heavyweight? | Hummer: Requiem for a heavyweight?
A couple of years ago, I parked a Hummer H2, in all its blunt-trauma enormity, in front of a coffee shop in Santa Monica. When I returned I discovered a note written on a paper napkin under the windshield. “This thing is so stupid! Why don’t you grow up?”
America just got the memo.
Ge... |
45b529929fa49dd68b83ed375d700d1c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-07-me-exodus7-story.html | U.S. a haven for Tijuana elite | U.S. a haven for Tijuana elite
The Plascencia family boasts the brand name for fine dining in Tijuana. Their showcase restaurant -- Villa Saverios -- is a foodie destination, its elegant dining room a gathering spot for the city’s political and social elite.
But the family’s success has also drawn other attention.
Thre... |
de27acbfcd6da9281754b32409ef4bf9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-07-na-fowler7-story.html | Watch out for that face in the crowd | Watch out for that face in the crowd
Tim Russert, Katie Couric or Larry King eventually may deliver telling blows of their own, but score Round 1 in the contest to extract the most provocative presidential campaign quotes to . . . Mayhill Fowler?
The 61-year-old self-described “failed writer” and amateur Web journalist... |
3194e38b10db77a5a439eb2581bc6ac8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-08-fg-colombia8-story.html | Colombia says ammunition delivery to FARC thwarted | Colombia says ammunition delivery to FARC thwarted
A Venezuelan national guard sergeant will face “the full weight of national law” after being arrested in a remote border area, allegedly on his way to deliver 40,000 rounds of ammunition to Colombia’s largest rebel group, this country’s foreign minister said Saturday.
... |
7be509c6feb74e419568928d473628c2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-08-me-trafficdayone8-story.html | Isolated in our cars, but suffering together | Isolated in our cars, but suffering together
In this neighborhood, nobody knows your name.
There you are in the photograph above, crawling anonymously along a cheerless stretch of real estate known as the 110 Freeway at rush hour. The roads are slick with rain and cluttered with wrecks, and you’ve become a citizen of S... |
79a00d657f9d528b183583ecbfecca1f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-09-et-winslow9-story.html | Surfing shamus | Surfing shamus
WAVES breaking just a few feet away, the detective novelist Don Winslow was sitting on the patio of a Laguna Beach cafe with a view of the ocean below, looking like a private eye trying to avoid detection. A compact, wiry man whose intense green eyes flashed under a baseball cap, Winslow, 54, was talking... |
5f3557cc4e87e8f3bb41676eb6c0a3ff | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-09-fg-beauty9-story.html | Pakistani men are sitting prettier than ever | Pakistani men are sitting prettier than ever
The facialist at a popular salon here couldn’t help being a bit nervous. Her client that afternoon was a particularly demanding one, certain to quiz her unrelentingly about the latest anti-wrinkle creams and pore-reduction potions.
But such exactitude, she said, is typical o... |
2e49373edc7eb5da15fa986dddecc0f9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-09-me-finegan9-story.html | Arranger for Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller | Arranger for Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller
Bill Finegan, an architect of the big band sounds of Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller who later traded in commercial success to co-create the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, which produced music that still stands as some of the most experimental of the swing era, has died. He was 91.
Fine... |
642a67e60f68b24b8118f96ac6af4b9a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-09-me-obscene9-story.html | Trial to gauge what L.A. sees as obscene | Trial to gauge what L.A. sees as obscene
If all goes according to plan, an otherwise stately federal courtroom in downtown Los Angeles will be converted into a makeshift movie theater this week, screening a series of graphic -- many would say vulgar -- sexual fetish videos.
At issue is how a jury will define obscenity ... |
8503552a91542b6c8e0c1189d48cc047 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-09-na-ohio9-story.html | A GOP machine sits silent | A GOP machine sits silent
As the architect of Ohio’s ballot measure against gay marriage, Phil Burress helped draw thousands of conservative voters to the polls in 2004, most of whom also cast ballots to reelect President Bush. So Burress was not surprised when two high-level staffers from John McCain’s campaign droppe... |
ab0f41e14281e1c8b08bf827b0824a3c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-10-me-homicides10-story.html | Surge in slayings is rare, police say | Surge in slayings is rare, police say
In the wake of 14 killings that occurred across Los Angeles County this weekend -- most within the city of Los Angeles -- authorities attempted to reassure the public Monday that the spike in violence was rare and no cause for alarm.
Los Angeles Police Department Assistant Chief Ea... |
639ba3b36d6b5ae01d0322fbb8f07b1a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-10-na-fbi10-story.html | Audit faults FBI’s immigrant screens | Audit faults FBI’s immigrant screens
The FBI system for performing background checks on immigrants has become so overloaded since the Sept. 11 attacks that thousands of legal immigrants are waiting years to get into the United States or obtain citizenship, according to findings from an internal investigation released M... |
8b70bec498672ef584ac0171891d1882 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-10-na-immig10-story.html | Bush widens worker checks | Bush widens worker checks
The Bush administration, in an aggressive new effort to keep illegal immigrants out of the workforce, on Monday ordered all companies doing business with the federal government to begin ensuring their employees can legally work in the U.S.
The order will require thousands of firms to use a gov... |
c1c04038580248e9b14ee7ffe04bb312 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-11-fi-soap11-story.html | State alleges Whole Foods failed to warn of carcinogen in soaps | State alleges Whole Foods failed to warn of carcinogen in soaps
California’s attorney general has filed suit against four manufacturers, including Whole Foods Market Inc., accusing them of failing to label soap products that contain a potentially cancer-causing chemical.
The suit, filed by Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown in Ala... |
493d88d78b09c674a0107ffae6d8abae | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-11-hy-throttle11-story.html | Inconvenient truths about motorcycles and smog | Inconvenient truths about motorcycles and smog
I’D LIKE to begin this column with an apology. I’m sorry for ruining your day.
This story is about emissions. More specifically, it’s about the surprising level of emissions spewing from on-road motorcycles and scooters. In California, such bikes make up 3.6% of registered... |
c7994aad0c46182454d4024cf996645b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-12-et-book12-story.html | When the literary sci-fi and movie worlds collide | When the literary sci-fi and movie worlds collide
IN “The Reel Stuff,” Brian Thomsen and Martin H. Greenberg have gathered an eclectic collection of fantasy and horror stories gone Hollywood that offers an opportunity to examine how these speculative tales were adapted for the screen.
The results are not always pretty.... |
0d55b6c66d8b3e335dbb15e4f24b4785 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-12-fi-schmidt12-story.html | Search engine aims to help papers | Search engine aims to help papers
Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Wednesday that the Internet search leader hoped its recently acquired advertising service DoubleClick would aid newspapers as they struggled to corral more online revenue.
“It’s a huge moral imperative to help here,” Schmidt said at an even... |
ac7bc2533395537507fa0539c6b89964 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-12-me-kozinski12-story.html | Porn trial in L.A. is halted | Porn trial in L.A. is halted
A closely watched obscenity trial in Los Angeles federal court was suspended Wednesday after the judge acknowledged maintaining his own publicly accessible website featuring sexually explicit photos and videos.
Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, granted a 4... |
083bdf676ab270f1486a62873ff2fd3e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-12-me-rauch12-story.html | Coach led Oakland Raiders to Super Bowl | Coach led Oakland Raiders to Super Bowl
John Rauch, the former Georgia quarterback who coached the Oakland Raiders to a berth in the second Super Bowl, died Tuesday at his home in Oldsmar, Fla. He was 80.
His wife, Jane, said Rauch died in his sleep, possibly because of a heart problem.
Rauch was 33-8-1 in three season... |
7f573bc4372203ded40a549dbbc380dc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-12-sp-heisler12-story.html | If league indeed is rigged, it’s not doing it very well | If league indeed is rigged, it’s not doing it very well
Where insanity happens.
Trying to judge the impact of last summer’s Tim Donaghy scandal, I recently called around to assess the reaction of the congenitally suspicious core audience . . . the gamblers.
It turned out there was no impact.
The Donaghy blockbuster, th... |
2e94eab87df613e63de61cb15a37a2e8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-12-sp-nbatv12-story.html | Game 3 draws highest TV ratings since third game of 2004 Finals | Game 3 draws highest TV ratings since third game of 2004 Finals
ABC’s Tuesday night broadcast of the Lakers’ first win of the NBA Finals generated a preliminary 9.2 rating and drew about 14.5 million viewers, the network said Wednesday. Early ratings data for the third game of the series with the Boston Celtics showed ... |
9220392b42c9ac2c71b0e8379c13ccee | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-13-a2-correx13.s2-story.html | For the Record | For the Record
Baseball: An item in Thursday’s Sports section about the New York Yankees’ new stadium gave its cost as $1.3 million. The cost is expected to be $1.3 billion. Also, an item about Atlanta Braves pitcher Tom Glavine said he throws right-handed. Glavine throws left-handed.
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8d267aecd339689a2e7d6e5e00568ce8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-13-ed-kozinski13-story.html | Free country | Free country
Judge Alex Kozinski’s statements about the stash of sexually explicit images he collected and that the public (until this week) could view on his website have been varied, although not necessarily inconsistent: He thought the site was for private storage and offered no public access (although he shared som... |
ac446dbc380fc04ad1e0ee43d8ddb5b9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-13-fi-yahoo13-story.html | Yahoo’s new best friend -- rival Google | Yahoo’s new best friend -- rival Google
Microsoft Corp. turned to Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. for help in fighting its biggest-ever competitive threat, then only made that threat stronger.
Yahoo and Microsoft on Thursday said they had ended nearly five months of merger and partnership talks born of the software giant’s... |
6e0974807648f6893dc28e29d5b65f79 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-13-me-marriageqa13-story.html | The first bells ring at 5:01 p.m. Monday | The first bells ring at 5:01 p.m. Monday
With gay marriage set to begin in California on Monday, The Times is answering readers’ questions on the subject. You can submit questions at ron.lin@latimes.com. Check out full coverage of the debate about the gay marriage issue at latimes.com/gaymarriage. Here is a sampling:
W... |
0361b6441db549b7e385d8aa5b813bb4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-13-me-showercurtain13-story.html | That ‘new shower curtain smell’? It’s toxic, study says | That ‘new shower curtain smell’? It’s toxic, study says
Vinyl shower curtains sold at major retailers across the country emit toxic chemicals that have been linked to serious health problems, according to a report released Thursday by a national environmental organization.
The curtains contained high concentrations of ... |
c2128588ef7646a7485c4dd5eec4426d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-13-sci-methuselah13-story.html | Seed from Masada is the oldest to germinate | Seed from Masada is the oldest to germinate
Scientists using radiocarbon dating have confirmed that an ancient Judean date palm seed among those found in the ruins of Masada in present-day Israel and planted three years ago is 2,000 years old -- the oldest seed ever to germinate.
The seed has grown into a healthy, 4-fo... |
b19f8cca4025efd0993918902fea7f2a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-14-me-kozinski14-story.html | U.S. judge in obscenity trial steps down | U.S. judge in obscenity trial steps down
A federal appeals court judge on Friday stepped down from a high-profile obscenity trial in Los Angeles, three days after acknowledging that he had posted sexually explicit material on a publicly accessible personal website.
“In light of the public controversy surrounding my inv... |
e816f2170408aa56b7539ba70b1eeaa5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-15-me-dui15-story.html | Wife of rap artist arrested on DUI | Wife of rap artist arrested on DUI
The wife of Grammy-nominated rap artist Snoop Dogg was arrested in Fullerton early Saturday on suspicion of drunk driving, police said.
Shante Broadus, 32, was stopped by police near Highland and Orangethorpe avenues about 12:15 a.m. and arrested on suspicion of driving under the infl... |
70566742135e487cc32af1c1c0afdf83 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-15-me-fire15-story.html | Firefighters make headway against 4 blazes | Firefighters make headway against 4 blazes
Firefighters in Northern California had contained 90% of a 520-acre blaze in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Saturday, and slowly gained the upper hand on three other major fires burning from Monterey County north to Tehama County.
Dying winds, cooler temperatures and beefed-up cr... |
5811f9292a35ede85ce3d0a1d0d10fee | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-15-me-tang15-story.html | He gives to stir charity in others | He gives to stir charity in others
Steel magnate Cyrus Tang, once described by an Asian American news website as “the most secretive of Asian American billionaires in America,” recently spoke about his philanthropy to a reporter for the first time.
The 78-year-old China native, who came to the United States in 1950 as ... |
4964d13d1397e4a6807070303e668b53 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-15-sp-pickup15-story.html | Changing the CULTURE | Changing the CULTURE
She enters the dimly lighted gym at UCLA and adjusts her red knee-high sock, making a point. It screams out this message: I am a good player. It is part of the culture of pickup basketball games, a culture dominated by guys.
And the guys do as expected -- their heads turn as one.
She walks up to on... |
2e62937884a618463660d1d6e6203d31 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-16-oe-kirchick16-story.html | The White House didn’t lie about Iraq | The White House didn’t lie about Iraq
Touring Vietnam in 1965, Michigan Gov. George Romney proclaimed American involvement there “morally right and necessary.” Two years later, however, Romney -- then seeking the Republican presidential nomination -- not only recanted his support for the war but claimed that he had bee... |
983ca835fbb7f812f835100b49997ceb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-17-et-mirisch17-story.html | Career stories from a storied producer | Career stories from a storied producer
Oscar-winning producer Walter Mirisch has lived the American dream. He grew up in a poor immigrant family, and despite suffering hardships during the Great Depression, he found his way to Harvard. He later went on to a storied career producing some of the finest films of the 20th ... |
a865496b12a4e8973461da1f05b7a698 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-17-me-kozinski17-story.html | Probe of judge shifted to court in East | Probe of judge shifted to court in East
A panel of federal judges on the East Coast was selected Monday to oversee a misconduct probe into California Judge Alex Kozinski, who declared a mistrial last week in an obscenity case he was presiding over after acknowledging that he had posted sexually explicit material on his... |
f10eb2c11c38bdf01f351b5c2a0bf745 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-18-et-cameron18-story.html | Kirk Cameron grows | Kirk Cameron grows
Kirk Cameron didn’t need to reach rock bottom to become a Christian -- no plunge to the depths of despair or debauchery for the former teen idol and star of the 1980s sitcom “Growing Pains.” He didn’t awaken one day, surrounded by empty tequila bottles and prostitutes, then fear for his mortal soul a... |
f8f55005f2a7bcb932506fc0e7713ca3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-18-me-capitol18-story.html | Capitol fears for its sonic signature | Capitol fears for its sonic signature
They were singing the blues in the legendary Studio A at Hollywood’s Capitol Records tower.
“Losing this place would be a big deal. There’s nothing better than this anywhere in the world,” said recording engineer Al Schmitt.
Schmitt, a 19-time Grammy winner, was standing over the b... |
c93e2bec13190ee2c2c4869e132a0393 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-18-me-sat18-story.html | Revised SAT is better grade predictor, study finds | Revised SAT is better grade predictor, study finds
The addition of a mandatory writing section to the SAT three years ago slightly improved the exam’s ability to predict academic success for college freshmen, according to a report by the test’s owner.
The study, sponsored by the College Board, also found that scores fr... |
0c7dc55c1e42b5abd54829335f03f87e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-19-me-mayor19-story.html | Villaraigosa says Israel trip paid dividends for L.A. | Villaraigosa says Israel trip paid dividends for L.A.
Back from a weeklong trip to Israel, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Wednesday touted agreements to enhance anti-terrorism efforts at Los Angeles International Airport and the harbor, and defended the cost of the 18-member delegation he led while the city ... |
4f44c5bd2c138dfcbce92e38a233a97d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-19-me-text19-story.html | Prying bosses get the message | Prying bosses get the message
A federal appeals court Wednesday sharply limited the ability of employers to obtain e-mails and text messages sent by employees on company-financed accounts.
The text message portion of the ruling, issued by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, will affect all employers who contract wit... |
37894c60b90a5f8f89df1ccd12b1e979 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-19-sp-lakersfyi19-story.html | Numbers tell bad tale | Numbers tell bad tale
The stats and records kept stacking up against the Lakers throughout their staggering 131-92 loss to Boston in Game 6.
Among the things they hope to forget in the off-season are:
Boston’s 39-point margin of victory was the largest for any team in a clinching game in the NBA Finals. The previous re... |
1ef0ae824280db1755c94583ae90d024 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-20-fg-violence20-story.html | U.N. deems sexual attacks a security issue | U.N. deems sexual attacks a security issue
The U.N. Security Council affirmed Thursday that rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute war crimes, and called for measures to combat such attacks.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice introduced the U.S.-sponsored resolution at a special session attended by dip... |
bf2055f38fdda5587f200eb4efdaa17c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-21-et-culture21-story.html | Latinos lose an urban voice | Latinos lose an urban voice
It was meant to be a magazine for “your city” -- Tu Ciudad. But in the end, the glossy lifestyle publication aimed at affluent, assimilated Latinos failed to find a home in the region’s turbulent media landscape.
After more than three years serving as a guide for the city’s best mojitos, tac... |
d91bfa24131ca4ec082c6b4500173ce4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-21-fg-peacepush21-story.html | Israel’s peace efforts widen | Israel’s peace efforts widen
The tentative truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip is just part of a larger effort by the Jewish state to reach out to longtime adversaries. In the process, it confronts a number of difficult, domestically unpopular negotiating options.
One key issue faced by Israeli diplomats i... |
0b664022823fe5550209f5565b05e04e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-21-fi-megabus21-story.html | Megabus was poorly marketed, riders say | Megabus was poorly marketed, riders say
Megabus.com’s short-lived run in Los Angeles was what one critic called a megabust, and loyal fans are taking its final departure pretty hard.
The ultra-cheap bus service, which rolls out of town for the last time Sunday, had a devoted, albeit limited, following and had been gain... |
02268753b1f58e0d082e7103515f4112 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-21-na-epa21-story.html | White House says no to Congress’ EPA subpoena | White House says no to Congress’ EPA subpoena
Escalating a fight with Democrats on Capitol Hill, the White House on Friday invoked executive privilege in refusing to turn over documents to a congressional committee investigating the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to deny California permission to implement i... |
899295119b697f419d8f10411d967f1c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-22-ca-bear22-story.html | In the wilds (sorta) with Bear Grylls | In the wilds (sorta) with Bear Grylls
Bear GRYLLS threw a lizard at me.
We were climbing in Franklin Canyon Park in the Santa Monica Mountains on a cool, hazy afternoon recently when Grylls, host of Discovery Channel’s popular survival series “Man vs. Wild,” spotted a small dark reptile, no longer than a pencil, scurry... |
167833e6e97e6a2bc14cd838a780a458 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-22-ca-groundlings22-story.html | Like magic, Groundlings turn viral | Like magic, Groundlings turn viral
WHEN members of the Groundlings improv troupe headed to the alleyway behind their Melrose Avenue theater to shoot “David Blaine Street Magic,” they had no idea the spoof would end up becoming one of the most popular videos in YouTube history.
The sendup (with its sometimes-salty langu... |
8301ef7372d88f11b4b660cb37ee6d50 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-22-fi-lazarus22-story.html | Insurance ‘eggheads’ make women pay | Insurance ‘eggheads’ make women pay
When it comes to health insurance, Valencia resident Tova Hack’s first problem is that she works part time and thus needs an individual policy for medical coverage because her employer doesn’t offer one.
Her second problem is that she’s a woman.
Hack, 22, a grad student at Cal State ... |
280b3134808e3341aa717fb4d5ecf3e7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-22-me-heat22-story.html | Crowds take the plunge on fourth day of heat wave | Crowds take the plunge on fourth day of heat wave
Nine-year-old Luis Dasilva held a towel over his head, wiping the sweat off his brow, as he waited in a long line under a sweltering Saturday sun to get into the Hollywood Recreation Center’s pool. “It’s just too hot,” he said.
A half-hour later, he rushed to the water ... |
3bb47599b47f4fed39530878153980dc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-22-re-hotprop22-story.html | Malibu X-odus? Maybe | Malibu X-odus? Maybe
It’s no secret that David Duchovny and wife, actress Tea Leoni, wanted to move back to New York. On June 1, they listed their 6,578-square-foot Malibu ocean-view home for $12 million. And then last week, they withdrew the house from the market.
Why the about-face? Depends on who’s talking.
Media re... |
d3e1615d6d786f397009bea409ab0711 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-22-sp-newswire22-story.html | Arreola beats Witherspoon to stay perfect | Arreola beats Witherspoon to stay perfect
Chris Arreola of Riverside defeated Chazz Witherspoon in a battle of undefeated heavyweights when Witherspoon was disqualified at the end of the third round in Memphis, Tenn., on Saturday night.
Arreola (24-0, 21 knockouts) pounded Witherspoon late in the third round, knocking ... |
fac01ec86bb3f6e948d0b3e9fc181c2c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-23-na-blackvote23-story.html | Obama banking on black turnout | Obama banking on black turnout
As they ponder a political map that has spelled defeat for Democrats in the last two presidential elections, Barack Obama’s campaign strategists are quietly laying plans to draw African American voters to the polls in unprecedented numbers by capitalizing on the excitement over the prospe... |
da338b46a0b49d0840cf76e5cf297207 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-24-fi-actor24-story.html | Suspense scene | Suspense scene
Universal Pictures is getting ready to roll the cameras on some big pictures in the next few months.
There’s director Ridley Scott’s twist on the Robin Hood legend, “Nottingham,” starring Russell Crowe, set to begin production in August. And comedy zeitgeist filmmaker Judd Apatow is training his lens on ... |
bb0f29c7d20d7a5c89eb79032a5840bc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-24-fi-samueli24-story.html | Broadcom billionaire admits guilt | Broadcom billionaire admits guilt
Technology billionaire and philanthropist Henry Samueli pleaded guilty Monday to a felony charge of lying to regulators about his role in an alleged plot to secretly reward his Broadcom Corp. employees by manipulating stock options.
Under a deal with prosecutors, Samueli pleaded guilty... |
9a6a8598c8aa52e23a9db6f9b1bd118f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-24-me-faith24-story.html | State has a relaxed view on religion | State has a relaxed view on religion
Californians, long known for their propensity to buck convention, have apparently done it again: A national survey released Monday revealed that they are less religious and less certain about the existence of God than the nation as a whole.
Residents of the Golden State do not pray ... |
03b0b654be9fb6ed03f7e9aaa2f7bb5f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-24-na-bedstuy24-story.html | Skyline views, the projects below | Skyline views, the projects below
Most everyone who’s been around this Brooklyn neighborhood long enough knows Mama Ruth, a zippy 87-year-old grandmother with toffee-toned skin, a few lonely teeth and indigo eyes.
Every morning when the weather is decent, she sits on the same red metal bench outside the Marcy Houses, a... |
fbfbbc7401792febe57266cc1a1599ed | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-24-na-campaign24-story.html | Courting a creative spark | Courting a creative spark
Sen. John McCain added an unusual twist to his emerging energy agenda Monday, promising to award a $300-million prize to the inventor of a next-generation battery that could power electric vehicles. The prize amount is small relative to the billions of dollars the federal government spends on ... |
c1a12c458c8711ab6545feec563b879b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-24-na-gitmo24-story.html | Court rules in favor of detainee | Court rules in favor of detainee
A federal appeals court said Monday that the U.S. military improperly labeled a Chinese Muslim held at Guantanamo Bay an “enemy combatant” and it ordered that he be released, transferred or granted a new hearing.
The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington marks the first time... |
5fedeebff010e52727b4df56c7a334eb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-24-sp-jarrin24-story.html | TUNED IN | TUNED IN
Sitting in a restaurant in Cincinnati last week, Jaime Jarrin shook his head and smiled.
“Increible,” Jarrin said.
He repeated the word several times over a lunch that lasted nearly three hours when describing his 50-year Hall of Fame career as the Spanish voice of the Dodgers.
He talked about how he came to t... |
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