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aa46b5c3e2e8282eab6474e7fa80ebd0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-24-sp-tyson24-story.html | Speed outside fast-food lane | Speed outside fast-food lane
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Tyson Gay’s mother was hardly surprised to hear that her son had dinner in a restaurant. After all, Daisy Gay Lowe said, he eats nearly every meal outside the two-bedroom furnished apartment where he lives alone while training in this Dallas suburb.
It was what Gay order... |
3f3807f4af2458022539ee2c468d5f58 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-25-ed-visas25-story.html | Catwalking in | Catwalking in
Unable to muster the political will last year to pass comprehensive immigration reform and address the dearth of both unskilled and highly skilled labor that drags on our economy, Congress is now ready to act. Standing tall in the courage of their convictions, lawmakers are proposing to give supermodels t... |
3e3d6d76ca765d166bc40f99c1dee81d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-25-fg-cambodia25-story.html | Cambodia genocide tribunal says it’s running out of cash | Cambodia genocide tribunal says it’s running out of cash
Plagued by long delays and corruption allegations, the special court prosecuting Cambodia’s former Khmer Rouge leaders on genocide charges is running short of money months before its first trial is set to start.
The court, which was set up by the United Nations a... |
8b17482a952e15786bad98b3100bc125 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-25-me-billygoat25-story.html | The trail is his destination | The trail is his destination
In the southern sierra, an old man with an untamed beard hikes a familiar trail, his sinewy legs pumping like pistons for mile after mile toward an ideal and away from civilization.
George Woodard is his name in the legal sense, but he no longer is that person. On the trail he is known by h... |
4cc5ec0b6a6282297ad46ccecd0d14d4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-25-me-species25-story.html | State’s flora at risk from climate change, study says | State’s flora at risk from climate change, study says
Two-thirds of California’s unique plants, some 2,300 species that grow nowhere else in the world, could be wiped out across much of their current geographic ranges by the end of the century because of rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns, according to ... |
62a4ec87d9453273aff1479aed491b58 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-25-me-ucla25-story.html | UCLA health center readies move | UCLA health center readies move
On Sunday, 2,100 doctors, nurses, technicians and managers at UCLA Medical Center will participate in a task of epic proportions: moving to the gleaming new hospital across the street.
Although the distance is short, the details are daunting. The shift to the new Ronald Reagan UCLA Medic... |
518e6fb4bb2cf565d3ab0f1c631582fd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-25-me-whale25-story.html | Artist’s whale request causes a flap | Artist’s whale request causes a flap
The Laguna Beach artist who created California’s iconic whale-tail license plate is making a splash with state coastal officials, revoking the state’s right to use his art after they snubbed his request to share profits from the image with his environmental group.
Wyland, the famed ... |
bd1e0ecaab3045ee8b216349269161e7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-25-na-poll25-story.html | Obama in the lead by 12 points | Obama in the lead by 12 points
Buoyed by enthusiasm among Democrats and public concern over the economy, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has taken a sizable lead over Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) at the opening of the general election campaign for president, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found.
In a two-man race betw... |
51a786418e58c90b9dcaeec42d2a0d57 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-25-sp-simers25-story.html | Not-so-artful Dodgers when it comes to a deal | Not-so-artful Dodgers when it comes to a deal
You might want to hold your nose.
Angel Berroa. Mark Sweeney. Scott Proctor. Thomas Perez. Brady Clark. Marlon Anderson. Julio Lugo. Greg Maddux. Wilson Betemit. Elmer Dessens. B.J. LaMura. Mark Hendrickson. Toby Hall. Ben Kozlowski. Danys Baez. Jae Sao. Tim Hamulack. Lance... |
e282cef9415954378be909e314570654 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-26-fi-laptops26-story.html | Is your laptop safe at customs? | Is your laptop safe at customs?
Bill Hogan was returning home to the U.S. from Germany in February when a customs agent at Dulles International Airport pulled him aside. He could reenter the country, she told him. But his laptop couldn’t.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents said he had been chosen for “random ins... |
a1133204829dc73fb2d0df3df4920a6b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-26-fi-tribune26-story.html | The Times’ downtown building could be sold | The Times’ downtown building could be sold
Cash-strapped Tribune Co. is considering putting two of its signature properties -- the Los Angeles Times’ main office downtown and Tribune Tower in Chicago -- on the block.
Tribune Chief Executive Sam Zell told employees in an e-mail Wednesday that the company had contacted “... |
d8e1a46fffcd1bcc55123515776af136 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-26-me-pastors26-story.html | Pastor rallies clergy against gay marriage | Pastor rallies clergy against gay marriage
Eight years ago, when an initiative to ban gay marriage was on the California ballot for the first time, Pastor Jim Garlow of the 2,500-member Skyline Church in San Diego County barely mentioned it from his pulpit.
But same-sex marriage wasn’t legal then. This time around, he ... |
6ef91ae3df4c68d65c0ab356a30022dd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-26-sp-nicklaus26-story.html | CONFIDENCE GAME | CONFIDENCE GAME
PERHAPS THE GREATEST GOLF LESSON Jack Grout ever taught me was not something you can find in a book, on a video, in some infomercial, or on the back of a box of the latest and greatest swing aid. In fact, it wasn’t even something born out of the dirt of a practice tee.
It was a lesson that came at the a... |
3e304eec1a8bd1d5286f906aa94720d8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-27-me-arnold27-story.html | Governor criticizes McCain’s oil plan | Governor criticizes McCain’s oil plan
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made a veiled swipe at Republican presidential hopeful John McCain on Thursday when he said at a climate conference here that anyone suggesting offshore oil drilling could bring down gas prices was “blowing smoke.”
The remark was also a dig at his host, F... |
1fa5460d3b86417b708db9afa9d07848 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-27-me-bus27-story.html | MTA is trying to shed some wait | MTA is trying to shed some wait
Waiting for the bus at Normandie and Slauson avenues late one night, Betrona Casileo was getting nervous.
Thirty minutes. Forty minutes. Still no bus.
“At night, it’s very dangerous,” said Casileo, who is 52 and has been riding Metro buses for 15 years. “I was just hoping the bus would c... |
a266bd60f8d5d18d60bcd2e74d800f6a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-27-me-roadsage27-story.html | MTA takes first step in getting tax hike on ballot | MTA takes first step in getting tax hike on ballot
With gas prices soaring and mass transit ridership on the upswing, local transportation officials Thursday took a key step toward asking voters in November to approve a half-cent sales tax increase to fund at least $30 billion in road and mass transit projects. Here’s ... |
4ccf837489aabd433eff1299626b7f06 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-27-me-times27-story.html | In L.A.'s nucleus, changing Times | In L.A.'s nucleus, changing Times
There was a time when the Los Angeles Times’ presence in downtown Los Angeles was a symbol of the possibilities of a burgeoning city.
Ten-foot-high murals in the building’s Globe Lobby, commissioned by the Chandlers, touted the role of industry and the newspaper in the life of great ci... |
37d3d8d9c6159d13e6b7863a82074408 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-27-na-millionaires27-story.html | Campaign finance rule on wealth struck down | Campaign finance rule on wealth struck down
The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down part of the campaign finance reform law that allowed federal office-seekers running against wealthy opponents to exceed normal contribution limits.
The “millionaire’s amendment” to the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 permitted ... |
4fbc808aa27e00548c0f58c220629d01 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-27-sp-trackchart27-story.html | U.S. track and field Olympic trials day by day | U.S. track and field Olympic trials day by day
The U.S. track and field trials begin today. USA Network and NBC share the television coverage this year, beginning Saturday. But don’t look for it Tuesday and Wednesday, because that’s when the trials take a break. Here are the key events, and athletes to watch.
Today
Wom... |
1ec686305179468495eeda78356bae15 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-28-fi-oil28-story.html | WHAT IF OIL HITS $200? | WHAT IF OIL HITS $200?
About this series
This is the first in a series of occasional articles looking at how skyrocketing oil prices are transforming lives in Southern California and around the world.
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The more expensive oil gets, the more Katherine Carver’s life shrinks. She’s given up RV trips. She stays home most ... |
65daa1c363ec4a7768458684a56f6d36 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-28-me-wunderman28-story.html | Watch salesman became upscale timepiece maker | Watch salesman became upscale timepiece maker
Severin Wunderman, the owner of Corum, the Swiss luxury watch manufacturer, who was also an art collector and philanthropist, died Wednesday at his home in Nice, France, his son, Michael, said. He was 69.
Wunderman, who built Gucci Timepieces into a multimillion-dollar busi... |
a12eab271015f1acb5656143a8510541 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-28-na-anthrax28-story.html | Anthrax subject receives payout | Anthrax subject receives payout
The former Army scientist who was the prime suspect in the deadly 2001 anthrax mailings agreed Friday to take $5.82 million from the government to settle his claim that the Justice Department and the FBI invaded his privacy and ruined his career.
Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, 54, who was called... |
f066972206770b6d2ef480ad4d68bc9d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-28-na-birds28-story.html | Surprises in genetic study will shake up birds’ family tree | Surprises in genetic study will shake up birds’ family tree
When a falcon swoops from the sky to seize its prey, no one would mistake the predator for a gaudy parrot.
Yet the secret kinship of falcons and parrots is one of many surprises in a landmark genetic study of 169 bird species published by Field Museum research... |
081499be31927fa7473ffc7a6963ab5c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-28-na-obama28-story.html | Obama is shifting to the center | Obama is shifting to the center
Barack Obama, as he introduces himself to the broader voting public, is emphasizing centrist -- even conservative -- positions on hot-button issues.
In recent weeks, he toughened his stance on Iran and backed an expansion of the government’s wiretapping powers. On Wednesday, he said stat... |
2b32fefb51246ef5665645a4cf5ec3a4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-28-na-scotus28-story.html | Justices’ decision triggers questions | Justices’ decision triggers questions
The Supreme Court’s historic ruling this week that clarified Americans’ right to own a gun for self-defense left a crucial question unanswered, one that will be resolved only after many years and a torrent of litigation, legal experts said Friday.
Is gun ownership a “fundamental ri... |
793f6637cf9e24c93c67d450fc5ec591 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-28-sci-carroll28-story.html | Studying time’s mysteries, and the multiverse | Studying time’s mysteries, and the multiverse
Caltech physicist Sean M. Carroll has been wrestling with the mystery of time. Most physical laws work equally well going backward or forward, yet time flows only in one direction. Writing in this month’s Scientific American, Carroll suggests that entropy, the tendency of p... |
45a69305778ec6af2b7776e9956f035f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-29-bk-stillman29-story.html | How the West was run | How the West was run
DEANNE STILLMAN loves the desert. It is, she writes, “my beat and my passion,” a place where city life fades away, her thoughts vanish and she hears things: “The beating of wings. The scratching of lizard. The crack of tortoise egg. The whisper of stories that want to be told.” Her 2001 book, “Twen... |
0346496d4f3506bc51aebefeaf80ca69 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-29-fg-lax29-story.html | Lacking evidence, Britain to free LAX bomb plot suspect | Lacking evidence, Britain to free LAX bomb plot suspect
British authorities will soon free an accused Algerian leader of Al Qaeda who had been charged as the mastermind of a foiled plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport in 1999, British officials say.
The recent court order to release the 45-year-old Algerian o... |
f5ed97e636b7ca5e3add7bfc668d75f1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-29-na-probe29-story.html | How anthrax case stalled | How anthrax case stalled
The federal investigation into the deadly anthrax mailings of late 2001 was undermined by leaks and a premature fixation on a single suspect, according to investigators involved in the case.
More than six years after the mailings, no one has been charged, and the top suspect, former Army scient... |
1bc3a4f9cc3076e29e8fda4c2441d3e4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-29-sp-dodgers29-story.html | Held hitless, Dodgers still win | Held hitless, Dodgers still win
Jered Weaver and Jose Arredondo pursued history on the wrong night, their combined eight no-hit innings wiped away by the Angels’ own inability to score.
The Angels hit the midway point of the season Saturday night with a cruel reminder of their offensive inadequacies, holding the Dodger... |
cbd273d424164e2fc86d13742dd88c95 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-30-fi-rhapsody30-story.html | New music store to take on iTunes | New music store to take on iTunes
Rhapsody America, the Web’s top subscription-based music service, plans to open a digital download store today, becoming the latest company to challenge the dominance of Apple Inc.'s iTunes.
Like other recent challengers -- and unlike iTunes -- the Rhapsody MP3 store will feature songs... |
a0b3e49851fe07b7986ad313f4ea69a4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-30-he-toxic30-story.html | ‘Cleansing’ comes naturally | ‘Cleansing’ comes naturally
To read the Internet ads, you’d think that our bodies were awash in “toxins” -- usually unspecified -- and that we should therefore go to dramatic lengths, such as “colon cleansing” and chelation, to get rid of all this bad stuff.
Don’t believe it. Or to put it more gently, don’t risk your h... |
a8d70dcd1592ea23486333732b895a52 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-30-me-ucla30-story.html | A seamless move for hospital | A seamless move for hospital
UCLA Medical Center’s new hospital admitted its first patients Sunday after successfully moving patients across the street from its old facility in a delicate, tightly scheduled operation.
The transfer occurred even as new mothers delivered their babies and doctors performed organ transplan... |
29e71f5c5ff8fa51d41dae57a4a1dc50 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-30-sp-dodrep30-story.html | Pierre to get MRI exam on hurt knee | Pierre to get MRI exam on hurt knee
Juan Pierre didn’t travel with the Dodgers to Houston on Sunday, remaining in Los Angeles to undergo an MRI exam today to determine the extent of damage to the left knee that he hurt in the sixth inning of a 1-0 loss to the Angels.
A decision of whether to put Pierre on the ever-grow... |
a3c6a7fc2126a3fe38600176d3c62d48 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-01-et-collarbow1-story.html | ‘Collar and Bow’ -- and then a suit | ‘Collar and Bow’ -- and then a suit
“Collar and Bow,” a 65-foot-tall sculpture of men’s formalwear accessories, was supposed to go up in 2004 to provide a jaunty greeting outside Walt Disney Concert Hall. Today it rests in pieces behind a tomblike warehouse in Irvine.
Blackbirds are the main audience for at least $3.8 ... |
df0fa73ac84df3ba47f900f1bac8ed54 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-01-fg-chemical1-story.html | Maliki criticizes delay in executions | Maliki criticizes delay in executions
Prime Minister Nouri Maliki’s office lashed out Friday at the Iraqi presidential council for refusing to approve the executions of two of the three men sentenced to hang for the genocidal campaign against Iraq’s ethnic Kurdish minority during Saddam Hussein’s rule.
The public dispu... |
6e2f73fb8e1b8a3839aa000b111c1b65 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-01-oe-daum1-story.html | Booming sense of pride | Booming sense of pride
I’m not going to pretend I knew what Michelle Obama meant when, at a rally in Milwaukee, she said that “for the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country.” She later said she meant she was proud of people “rolling up their sleeves” and “trying to figure this out,” which I ta... |
c577228315739b9f598d986757f15998 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-02-fg-holocaust2-story.html | Israeli word choice provides fodder | Israeli word choice provides fodder
The Hebrew word shoah, or holocaust, is not used casually in Israeli society. Occasionally, it is employed to denote a massive disaster.
This weekend, though, Arab politicians and international pro-Palestinian activists, seizing on a comment by an Israeli minister, are calling the bl... |
d8634880e5ae22cdb4d5cdd4dea4e731 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-03-fg-annefrank3-story.html | Madrid musical treats Anne Frank seriously | Madrid musical treats Anne Frank seriously
Presenting, “Anne Frank, the Musical.”
Now, before you start humming “Springtime for Hitler,” the producers of a new Anne Frank musical here want you to know that they are serious. They are offering a rendition of the popular, tragic story of a Jewish girl and her diary during... |
8e1f272d8bf0abe59c4e51febd92c2c2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-03-sp-bbnotes3-story.html | Fielder upset with pay | Fielder upset with pay
Prince Fielder is frustrated about his contract.
The Milwaukee Brewers renewed the slugger’s contract for $670,000 on Sunday after he finished third in the National League’s most valuable player voting last season.
“I’m not happy about it at all,” Fielder said. “The fact I’ve had to be renewed tw... |
244b6a3398820c48263c91e65e79712b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-04-et-amsterdam4-story.html | He’s seen it all, but we haven’t | He’s seen it all, but we haven’t
I want to like “New Amsterdam,” I do, I do, I do. The idea of a homicide detective who is really a Dutch colonist/soldier granted immortality by the witchy native girl whose life he saved in 1642? Catnip to a history-geek girl with a predilection for brooding, troubled men and novels in... |
5c44ba1e482285ddbef1289b4fc0613f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-04-et-polartists4-story.html | Arts of the campaign trail | Arts of the campaign trail
When it comes to campaign themes, the arts can’t compete with healthcare reform, national security, the sluggish economy -- just about anything you might name.
But this presidential primary season, people who work at the crossroads of politics and culture say the arts have attained a higher p... |
bc96b9b480572567310dc90d3b0425f9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-04-fi-allbiz4-story.html | Singapore Air to offer roomier Pacific flights | Singapore Air to offer roomier Pacific flights
Flights with all-business-class seats popular for trips across the Atlantic will finally fly across the Pacific.
Today, Singapore Airlines is expected to announce plans to add daily business-class-only flights in May to the carrier’s namesake city from Newark Liberty Inter... |
022eccd7e8bbb10b7d9a3e00c32bfbbb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-04-me-author4-story.html | Memoir a fake, author says | Memoir a fake, author says
The gripping memoir of “Margaret B. Jones” received critical raves. It turns out it should have been reviewed as fiction.
The author of “Love and Consequences,” a critically acclaimed autobiography about growing up among gangbangers in South Los Angeles, acknowledged Monday that she made up e... |
7ff2b2779eee71c0638d65105d8713b8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-04-na-bill4-story.html | Bill focuses like a laser on Hillary’s future, his legacy | Bill focuses like a laser on Hillary’s future, his legacy
Bill Clinton, elegantly attired in a black suit and eye-popping orange tie, stood in the bed of a pickup on a brisk Dallas morning addressing a sparse crowd the other day.
There was no hint of desperation, no sign that his wife’s campaign is in disarray after 11... |
377b2f2a8255df9952fee592e70d65cc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-05-oe-rutten5-story.html | The lure of made-up memoirs | The lure of made-up memoirs
Tuesday’s revelation that a critically acclaimed memoir of gang life in South Los Angeles was an elaborate hoax raises troubling questions about the economics of American publishing, about our collective deference to victims and about the paucity of real literature based on our most urgent u... |
0073c4481fac048d066416cbef91a536 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-06-et-lang6-story.html | So much talent, so much to learn | So much talent, so much to learn
Lang Lang’s reputation as an exceptional and irrepressible showman has traveled far and wide. At 25, the Chinese pianist is already so popular that his record label, Deutsche Grammophon, markets him as a kind of Pavarotti of the piano. His latest disc, “The Magic of Lang Lang,” is a mea... |
e0c5b3175724e8b5cfca53d827c0a348 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-06-fi-tanker6-story.html | Air Force contract under fire after U.S.-French bid wins | Air Force contract under fire after U.S.-French bid wins
Members of a House subcommittee grilled Air Force officials today over the surprise decision to award a $40-billion aircraft contract to Northrop Grumman Corp. and European partner Airbus, with lawmakers arguing the decision would send coveted jobs overseas.
Sue ... |
ca25995a94cf03b61cd9e60c9b66754c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-06-me-mayors6-story.html | Truckers’ status is a hitch in port plan | Truckers’ status is a hitch in port plan
The mayors of Los Angeles and Long Beach have spent nearly a year marching in lock-step, crafting a groundbreaking $1.6-billion plan for removing nearly 17,000 exhaust-spewing diesel trucks from the nation’s two busiest harbors.
With remarkable ease, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Vi... |
e53a0c7f145c666d401669c4c315efbd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-07-fg-bout7-story.html | Long-sought global arms dealer arrested | Long-sought global arms dealer arrested
The long hunt for a man regarded as one of the world’s most notorious arms dealers climaxed Thursday in Bangkok, Thailand, where an eight-month sting operation by a team of U.S. agents led to the capture and arrest of Russian businessman Viktor Bout during an alleged attempt to s... |
cbcab30b97613c30434c27ae85b3b199 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-07-me-slide7-story.html | Sepulveda is blocked by slide | Sepulveda is blocked by slide
A landslide in the Westwood area closed portions of Sepulveda Boulevard through Thursday evening’s commute and knocked out power to about 1,800 homes and buildings in Brentwood and Bel-Air, authorities said.
The roadway was reopened and power restored to all customers by 10 p.m., according... |
bbced49e2fddc5b4a867823c411c3b89 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-07-me-tollroad7-story.html | Tollway veto may affect other projects | Tollway veto may affect other projects
The apparent demise of a toll road through San Onofre State Beach could have a domino effect on funding for other Southern California transportation projects, a regional planning authority said this week.
A letter sent to Orange County transportation planners by the Southern Calif... |
d7dcc0f740ba7da78c5af56d71ee36ae | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-08-et-book8-story.html | Our sexual fantasyland | Our sexual fantasyland
There’s something about reading nearly 500 pages of sexual fantasy that throws the doors of perception a bit off their hinges. Just knowing that 90% of humanity is out there running some kind of porn film in their heads, makes the lunch crowd at, say, a Fuddrucker’s more interesting to observe. D... |
e94b0cd1ec287a2966c073a0fc51ec6f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-08-fg-darfur8-story.html | Olympics near, China bends on Darfur issue | Olympics near, China bends on Darfur issue
When filmmaker Steven Spielberg announced last month that he was withdrawing as an artistic advisor to the 2008 Olympics over violence in Darfur, the reaction in Beijing was righteous indignation.
Organizers accused him of violating the Olympic spirit by injecting politics int... |
58aedfb77605e30fd5f62ecff05737c1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-08-me-loyaltyoath8-story.html | Instructor fired over loyalty oath reinstated | Instructor fired over loyalty oath reinstated
A Quaker math instructor who was fired by Cal State East Bay after she refused on religious grounds to sign a state loyalty oath has been reinstated, university officials said Friday.
Marianne Kearney-Brown, a pacifist, was concerned that signing the oath to “support and de... |
933217e4c8a8e3087359230b65665266 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-08-me-oxnard8-story.html | A deadly clash of emotions | A deadly clash of emotions
For teens living in a shelter for abused and neglected children, school can provide a daily dose of normalcy, a place to fit in, a chance to be just another kid.
It didn’t turn out that way for Lawrence King.
According to the few students who befriended him, Larry, 15 years old and openly gay... |
a8daa821e5282905a09cd24390ba46af | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-09-adfg-portugal9-story.html | Documentary desanitizes Portugal’s past | Documentary desanitizes Portugal’s past
The heads of enemy soldiers impaled on roadside trees. Hundreds of prisoners tortured, killed and dumped in mass graves. Napalm dropped on jungles where guerrillas sheltered, and grass-hut villages torched with cigarette lighters.
These gruesome acts were carried out in Portugal’... |
bd5899bd50f33575767381435ef5e396 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-09-bk-martinez9-story.html | Reality bites back | Reality bites back
JUST when you thought it was safe to go back to the bookstore, there’s a brand-new entry in the memoir-that-turns-out-to-be-fiction sweepstakes: “Love and Consequences” by the author formerly known as Margaret B. Jones, whose real name is Margaret Seltzer. Published to gushing reviews, the book has b... |
56324be16ffddcf62628624dda2ba233 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-09-fg-deaths9-story.html | U.S. role in Philippine raid questioned | U.S. role in Philippine raid questioned
In a hut on stilts with paper-thin walls of bamboo strips, an off-duty Philippine soldier was asleep alongside four members of his family when the crackle of assault rifle fire and shudder of grenade blasts awakened them early last month.
Within minutes, Cpl. Ibnun Wahid, 35, was... |
b628b4dd75e97923d69d2758750156ba | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-09-me-mother9-story.html | Returning home to a tragedy | Returning home to a tragedy
Army Sgt. Anita Shaw spent endless hours worrying about her teenage son while she served in Iraq.
She worried about his learning to drive without her, then maybe having a car accident. She worried about his not seeing a doctor if he needed to, or forgetting to go to the dentist. She worried ... |
1f8bae2e23b034e4981d5945615b19ce | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-09-re-hotprop9-story.html | Tick, tick, tick, tick, vamoose | Tick, tick, tick, tick, vamoose
12:15-1:15: She buys.
1:15-8:30: She moves and rents it out.
8:30-11:15: She tries to sell.
11:15: In this market, we may need to tune in next season to see what happens.
Mary Lynn Rajskub, who plays computer whiz Chloe O’Brian opposite Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer on Fox’s “24,” bough... |
cc135c34754a5b9ef6aed6bc60f778cc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-10-fi-wikipedia10-story.html | Wikipedia’s tin-cup approach wears thin | Wikipedia’s tin-cup approach wears thin
The new headquarters of one of the world’s most popular websites is 3,000 square feet of rented space furnished with desks and chairs bought on the cheap from EBay and Craigslist.
A sheet of printer paper taped to the door says the office belongs to the Wikimedia Foundation, the ... |
d98f636f7a1a1928c0e13cc1be8f2d26 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-10-me-conference10-story.html | Strife and solutions at school conferences | Strife and solutions at school conferences
Sixth-grade teacher Deidre Sexton watched in disbelief as a student was struck by his mother during a parent-teacher conference. Steve Klein recalled a mother who threatened to pull her ninth-grade son out of school and have him sell fruit on the freeway. Other teachers recoun... |
3b5df9558ab74321811898cc74aa3a88 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-10-me-gang10-story.html | Politics clouds anti-gang fight | Politics clouds anti-gang fight
As a wave of high-profile gang shootings continues to rattle parts of Los Angeles, city leaders are locked in a turf battle of their own over who should control gang-prevention programs and the millions of dollars to pay for them.
Each side blames the other for waging the kind of politic... |
39ebd68a6ee6e82e117214fbf8adddb0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-10-na-intel10-story.html | Verdict mixed on Iraq claims | Verdict mixed on Iraq claims
After an acrimonious investigation that spanned four years, the Senate Intelligence Committee is preparing to release a detailed critique of the Bush administration’s claims in the buildup to war with Iraq, congressional officials said.
The long-delayed document catalogs dozens of prewar as... |
d78bbcdb339ba60f3e603eeb204395ee | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-10-na-lottery10-story.html | In Oregon, healthcare for the lucky | In Oregon, healthcare for the lucky
Tens of thousands of Oregonians queued up quickly for a chance at the state’s latest lottery, but this one is no game.
Officials began drawing names last week for a chance at some rare openings in the state’s healthcare plan.
Announced in February, the lottery drew 91,675 hopefuls in... |
dce83b686cef61454d7b5175024fd0f0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-10-oe-costanza10-story.html | Going downhill | Going downhill
The news media and the government are fixated on the fact that the U.S. economy may be headed into a recession -- defined as two or more successive quarters of declining gross domestic product. The situation is actually much worse. By some measures of economic performance, the United States has been in a... |
25b10d857bb7cf432111c71d3853b4f8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-11-fg-pakistan11-story.html | Pair of bombings kill 15 in Pakistan | Pair of bombings kill 15 in Pakistan
Two bombs exploded here early today, killing at least 12 people at an office of the federal police and three at a house in an upscale residential district, authorities said.
The Federal Investigation Agency building was devastated by a bomb planted near an elevator, said Mirza Moham... |
ad9f23445f8803d33d5019d32e5dccc7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-11-fg-post11-story.html | Pain in the Royal Mail | Pain in the Royal Mail
These days, villagers who want to send a letter can go onto the Royal Mail’s website, print out postage, and place the envelope in their delivery box out on the road. But that would be missing the point entirely.
Here on the endless North Yorkshire moors, where the wind is ubiquitous, the trees a... |
1ece7f6e3b7868c1868e753ffa3bbc9c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-11-fi-hulu11-story.html | Hulu gets ready to launch | Hulu gets ready to launch
Hulu, the closely watched joint venture of News Corp. and NBC Universal, makes its public debut Wednesday, making available legally and for free one of the most expansive collections of television shows on the Internet.
The online video service, which has been in test mode since October, launc... |
1ea86f80039e68f8e9fd1bd3b4edd3c3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-11-fi-tanker11-story.html | Boeing to challenge Air Force decision on tanker contract | Boeing to challenge Air Force decision on tanker contract
Escalating the fight over the biggest defense contract in years, Boeing Co. said Monday that it intended to challenge the Pentagon’s decision to place an aircraft order potentially worth $40 billion with the consortium of Northrop Grumman Corp. and European airc... |
ecd55fdcf4da9e6823679d02f10be48d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-11-fi-ucla11-story.html | UCLA experts don’t buy recession | UCLA experts don’t buy recession
Brushing aside conventional wisdom, UCLA economists say California and the nation will survive the housing slump and job losses without plunging into recession -- although it will still be miserable for many Americans.
“We are holding firm: no recession this time,” UCLA Anderson Forecas... |
de8da410a6b9eeec6983cee82a00fcfa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-11-me-owens11-story.html | Full stream ahead for Lower Owens | Full stream ahead for Lower Owens
As blizzards whipped across nearby High Sierra peaks, ecologist William Platts lifted off in a helicopter here and headed north, about 1,000 feet above a river that looked as if it were throwing a tantrum.
Beneath him, the squiggle of green was overflowing its banks, inundating a patch... |
ccbdc0a5284090c4acb7056c9e37607b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-11-oe-goldberg11-story.html | The patriot gap | The patriot gap
‘Unity is the great need of the hour. ... Not because it sounds pleasant or because it makes us feel good, but because it’s the only way we can overcome the essential deficit that exists in this country. I’m not talking about a budget deficit. ... I’m talking about a moral deficit. I’m talking about an ... |
32a02179d7996ae4c3a8664f207656d1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-12-ed-home12-story.html | Learning power | Learning power
There is plenty to debate about home schooling, but a new court ruling managed to avoid all reasonable disagreements and instead used a single example of possible child abuse to throw the book at tens of thousands of home schoolers throughout California.
The 2nd District Court of Appeal was asked to requ... |
5ed613518eccca5d17bf059b9384b243 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-12-me-homeschool12-story.html | No ban on home schooling | No ban on home schooling
Countering a potentially precedent-setting appeals court decision that bars parents from educating their children at home if they lack teaching credentials, California Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell on Tuesday affirmed families’ right to home school.
“There’s no cause for a... |
f507569b4c0c396b664380b34a0dcee1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-12-na-mining12-story.html | Mining claims rise near Western cities | Mining claims rise near Western cities
Propelled by soaring prices for gold, copper, uranium and other metals, new mining claims on federal land are surging near heavily populated areas in the West, according to an analysis of federal records.
More than 16,000 such claims have been staked in the last five years, includ... |
5fca4184914b1e0aba47d0dd2047c9cd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-12-na-nurse12-story.html | Nurse accused of spreading hepatitis C at military hospital | Nurse accused of spreading hepatitis C at military hospital
A nurse anesthetist at a Texas military hospital may have infected up to 15 patients with a potentially fatal strain of hepatitis C by stealing drugs meant for his patients and “knowingly” passing on his own infection, according to civil and criminal court fil... |
35361d739e72179e9d61e56f2200e7b5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-12-na-scandal12-story.html | Wife puts troubling face on the Spitzer scandal | Wife puts troubling face on the Spitzer scandal
It was the way she stood there, enduring.
Silda Wall Spitzer did not say a word as her husband, Gov. Eliot Spitzer, brusquely apologized to his family and the public after he was allegedly caught on a wiretap doing business with a high-priced prostitution ring. Her face w... |
b82c3b15db0545435bbe13cf0567f522 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-13-et-snl13-story.html | ‘SNL’ aims to razz evenly | ‘SNL’ aims to razz evenly
NEW YORK -- For three decades, “Saturday Night Live” has prided itself on skewering politicians of all stripes with equal zeal, from Chevy Chase’s clumsy Gerald Ford to Darrell Hammond’s sighing Al Gore.
Executive producer Lorne Michaels has long maintained that the show risks its comedy crede... |
4c4bc5dcc8d04d7f5544f46fcf819334 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-13-et-spitzertv13-story.html | Scandal is a perfect news storm | Scandal is a perfect news storm
They may be a journalist’s five favorite words: Governor linked to prostitution ring. Now that’s a TV crawl promising a very good week for everyone (except, of course, for the governor’s family). The politician and the call girl. It’s like a Broadway musical starring Nathan Lane -- every... |
67bb42d140d2b54ae41d75a4432a6ad2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-13-hm-choy13-story.html | Not a scrap of gingham | Not a scrap of gingham
BEFORE construction had wrapped on Vanessa Choy and Andrew Wong’s house in Studio City, the rumors had started swirling. The couple were building a halfway house for addicts, passersby speculated. The home was some sort of mean joke on the neighborhood, others feared. One woman screamed from the ... |
f0dc0e30e8bdfe249e1fcc068635200b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-13-me-burger13-story.html | In-N-Out not living up to its name | In-N-Out not living up to its name
Their beef isn’t with the burger.
Merchants near some Southern California In-N-Out Burger restaurants say their gripe is with growing traffic jams at drive-through lanes that are keeping customers from getting in and out of their stores.
Long lines of idling cars whose occupants are w... |
cd42ba56cf66e3a098583962d391f224 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-13-me-cruel13-story.html | Feds’ actions ‘beyond cruel’ | Feds’ actions ‘beyond cruel’
In a stinging ruling, a Los Angeles federal judge said immigration officials’ alleged decision to withhold a critical medical test and other treatment from a detainee who later died of cancer was “beyond cruel and unusual” punishment.
The decision from U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson all... |
2e1cf4b5dfb08006b1e86eaf9f0ef138 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-13-me-principal13-story.html | L.A. educator in sex case faced earlier investigation | L.A. educator in sex case faced earlier investigation
Los Angeles school officials transferred an assistant principal to a Watts middle school just months after he had been removed from a previous school where he was investigated for allegedly having sex with an underage student and pulling a gun on her stepfather.
Las... |
2d19d8cdbe5ccbfee0b9ad71093faa9a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-13-na-epa13-story.html | Waxman accuses EPA of shirking its duty | Waxman accuses EPA of shirking its duty
Federal regulators have stopped work on a proposal to further limit carbon dioxide emissions, the chairman of a key congressional committee charged Wednesday, stepping up a battle with the Bush administration over whether it has moved aggressively enough to combat global warming.... |
6de132c6ee430c983f73e5ef4fae25d8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-14-et-games14-story.html | Back to the sawing board | Back to the sawing board
If you are in the market for unspeakable horror but wouldn’t be caught dead slinking into “Saw IV,” Michael Haneke is definitely the go-to guy for you. “Funny Games,” his latest postmodern smackdown, is about a happy middle-class couple and their young son whose summer cottage is invaded by a p... |
ee064085dc546c023ff65a216aaa8052 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-14-fg-pollute14-story.html | Thou shalt honor thy Mother Earth | Thou shalt honor thy Mother Earth
A Vatican keen to show its green side has added pollution to the realm of “new sins” that today’s Catholics must confront and avoid.
In this age of expanding globalization, the Vatican is telling followers that sin is not just an individual act but can also be a transgression against t... |
5053faa610231fb1eaf40e680168a4fe | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-14-fi-homes14-story.html | Southland home prices tumble fast | Southland home prices tumble fast
Southern California home prices are now 19% below their peak last year, and the surprisingly rapid decline is leading experts to predict that the housing slump will be worse than initially thought -- surpassing the severe downturn of the 1990s.
Home values also plunged 19% during the l... |
58ee79090845ed9f12ff1b038d24cb0f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-15-me-baker15-story.html | Pianist wrote music for holiday song | Pianist wrote music for holiday song
Gloria Shayne Baker, who co-wrote the modern-day classic Christmas carol “Do You Hear What I Hear?” with her then-husband Noel Regney, has died. She was 84.
Baker died March 6 at her home in Stamford, Conn., of lung cancer that had metastasized, her daughter, Gabrielle Regney, said.... |
d3d898571e6ea17e871b69cbbeb56126 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-15-me-britney15-story.html | Hospital to punish snooping on Spears | Hospital to punish snooping on Spears
UCLA Medical Center is taking steps to fire at least 13 employees and has suspended at least six others for snooping in the confidential medical records of pop star Britney Spears during her recent hospitalization in its psychiatric unit, a person familiar with the matter said Frid... |
9b82edf3210f5a960e0124b2f5422666 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-15-me-parsons15-story.html | Supervisor Norby’s humanity is showing | Supervisor Norby’s humanity is showing
Being “Client 9" is surely more exotic than being “Supervisor 4,” but that doesn’t make Chris Norby any less human than former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. To the contrary, the Orange County supervisor from the 4th District seems all too human, something he quickly acknowledges --... |
92f86904d3ee4f5f35380a90749c05dd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-16-ca-moon16-story.html | Tracking both sides of the split migrant family story | Tracking both sides of the split migrant family story
To all the people who think that the illegal immigration debate is about electronic fences, NAFTA, Lou Dobbs and such, director Patricia Riggen and screenwriter Ligiah Villalobos offer a polite but emphatic rebuttal.
Immigration, say the women, is about survival. It... |
97f71307f6f89ce8e4fb82b34a3d473d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-16-fi-bread16-story.html | Our daily bread? It costs more | Our daily bread? It costs more
When a French-style patisserie opened on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles six years ago, owner Julien Bohbot thought the competition for his small Delice Bakery would come from the other kosher bakeries down the street.
But now Bohbot is competing with bakers from Paris and Pretoria -- all i... |
54c746560669ca78df19939615bafed1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-16-me-clark16-story.html | Caltech English professor, campus wit | Caltech English professor, campus wit
J. Kent Clark, a longtime Caltech English literature professor, biographer and novelist whose musical comedies for and about the Pasadena campus helped prize-winning scientists and studious undergraduates take a lighthearted view of their follies and foibles, has died. He was 90.
C... |
c66bda14c152c10e69f93b8d242b2cf0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-16-na-piracy16-story.html | Bill targets piracy at colleges | Bill targets piracy at colleges
Colleges and universities that take part in federal financial aid programs will be under new obligations to take steps to prevent illegal downloads of music, movies and other copyrighted material if legislation overwhelmingly passed by the House last month becomes law.
A two-page portion... |
55cface444d30434cf77e2ed438ac149 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-16-op-bilmes16-story.html | War’s price tag | War’s price tag
The war in iraq, which will enter its sixth year this week, is turning out to be the most expensive conflict since World War II, and the cost will fall especially hard on Californians.
By the end of 2008, the federal government will have spent more than $800 billion on combat operations in Iraq and Afgh... |
e0460c479d0cbc04bb273fc9eea7eda6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-16-op-sanchez16-story.html | Wiretapping’s true danger | Wiretapping’s true danger
As the battle over reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act rages in Congress, civil libertarians warn that legislation sought by the White House could enable spying on “ordinary Americans.” Others, like Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), counter that only those with an “irrational fear of... |
1592c341366fa797e255017cfcc09cc0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-16-re-hotprop16-story.html | It’s time that this Jack hits the road | It’s time that this Jack hits the road
Sean Hayes, who played Jack McFarland in the NBC sitcom “Will & Grace,” must have gotten word that the housing slump hasn’t hurt sales in the upper tiers of the market. He has listed his Hancock Park home at close to $9 million, according to area real estate agents.
The house, bui... |
247092feca08334d4c25d06a206948b2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-17-fg-wolves17-story.html | New danger menaces Iraqis | New danger menaces Iraqis
The bloodthirsty enemy had gathered on the city’s perimeter, but this time the locals were ready.
They had formed armed committees similar to the “Sons of Iraq” forces fighting off Al Qaeda in Iraq militants in western Iraq. They were gearing up for a fight.
Their foes had been attacking them ... |
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