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2ad54f537f9cbacc9512582d54672e31 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-09-me-lapower9-story.html | ‘Green’ project makes critics see red | ‘Green’ project makes critics see red
Highlighting the environmental pitfalls of harnessing “green” energy, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s push to import nonpolluting power to Los Angeles could require building power lines and transmission towers through a national forest, two desert wildlife preserves and a rustic hamle... |
f7659008d3ecd8e9d811c4d30b186f24 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-10-me-lng10-story.html | State panel rejects gas plant study | State panel rejects gas plant study
Following an all-day public hearing that drew hundreds of opponents, a state commission voted Monday to reject the environmental impact report on a proposed $800-million floating liquefied natural gas terminal off the Ventura County coast -- an action that could effectively kill the ... |
c880c58c07cad364e3338d0a74efbd3b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-10-na-bush10-story.html | Bush unveils latest immigration plan | Bush unveils latest immigration plan
President Bush unveiled the basics of his latest immigration proposal Monday, a mix of tougher border enforcement and a complicated path to legal status for illegal immigrants that the White House hopes can break the congressional deadlock over the thorny issue.
“It’s important that... |
1f8d6089d92ad83efdb91272505dd163 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-10-sp-simers10-story.html | Dodgers need to stay the course for kids to cash in | Dodgers need to stay the course for kids to cash in
We’ll bounce back.
It’s like Jeff Kent was saying after the game, “This team won’t quit,” which was so encouraging to hear seven games into the season, because if we were quitting already, we might have reason here to be a little concerned.
But we’re not like that. An... |
d230aaa9b97943b49b88f23a9e09a330 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-11-fg-scorpions11-story.html | Serbs sentenced in 1995 murders | Serbs sentenced in 1995 murders
Serbs condemned Serbs in a Belgrade courtroom Tuesday, sending to prison four men from a paramilitary unit known as the Scorpions who were videotaped executing unarmed Bosnian Muslim youths as part of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
It was the first time a Serbian court confronted the even... |
373a1a584d9a1bdee714103ac4149070 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-11-fo-wine11-story.html | Vines of distinction | Vines of distinction
LARRY HYDE surveys his vineyard from the front seat of his “mule,” a beat-up green truck small enough to drive down narrow vineyard rows, each vine within easy reach of the 61-year-old farmer’s calloused fingers. One after the other, he tells the stories behind each of his 52 vineyard plots as he p... |
2938a119b6bed96323f60efce8413115 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-11-me-classsize11-story.html | Schools inquiry gains steam | Schools inquiry gains steam
Santa Ana Unified School District trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to spend as much as $25,000 to audit their class-size-reduction program, an investigation prompted by reports that teachers were asked to sign falsified class rosters and that the district misused substitute teachers in an ... |
a1bbac710682bcf838ee7aabf33fe25b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-11-me-health11-story.html | Proposal: Get health insurance or pay fine | Proposal: Get health insurance or pay fine
People who refuse to obtain health insurance could be tracked down by the state or a private contractor, enrolled in a plan and fined until they pay their premiums under one proposal Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s administration is considering as part of his vision for covering ... |
79410a4a3b57016888d08322bf3773fc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-11-me-sweat11-story.html | At sit-in, students urge USC to ensure apparel is not sweatshop-produced | At sit-in, students urge USC to ensure apparel is not sweatshop-produced
Students staged a sit-in Tuesday outside the office of USC’s president, hoping the university would take measures to ensure that USC-themed apparel isn’t manufactured in sweatshops.
Thirteen students, who came prepared with food to last three days... |
d2aac5c76e2a52681e736a0671a9017e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-11-me-youarehere11-story.html | L.A.'s intimate stranger | L.A.'s intimate stranger
ELEVEN years ago, a German tourist named Martin Schall arrived in Los Angeles, armed with a guidebook, a camera and a traveler’s vision of the city. He was at the end of a long road trip along Route 66 and had parked his rental car on the Sunset Strip, close to the House of Blues.
Schall paid a... |
01a5caeb383fd51e68d5e0b1e885b183 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-11-oe-malley11-story.html | Forget Pelosi. What about Syria? | Forget Pelosi. What about Syria?
UNDERTAKING HER first major diplomatic foray, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got an earful. As she met with Syrian President Bashar Assad, she came under immediate, stinging attack. The White House condemned her encounter as counterproductive, asserting that it undermined U.S. policy aimed ... |
d3b173abd4b0054efd26a82ff0637090 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-11-sci-stemcells11-story.html | Researchers use stem cells to rein in Type 1 diabetes | Researchers use stem cells to rein in Type 1 diabetes
Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that the progression of Type 1 diabetes can be halted -- and possibly reversed -- by a stem-cell transplant that preserves the body’s diminishing ability to make insulin, according to a study published today.
The expe... |
60df180cd4a9995be5c0e5ca49937bf3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-12-me-health12-story.html | Controls urged for medical insurers | Controls urged for medical insurers
Saying the healthcare debate here was not sufficiently focused on curbing insurers’ profits, some lawmakers and consumer groups are backing a new effort to regulate medical insurance rates the same way the state controls auto coverage costs.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed th... |
e279f8c7358a5cab82d71bff450b7707 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-12-me-jenkins12-story.html | George Jenkins, 98; won an Oscar for ‘All the President’s Men’ art direction | George Jenkins, 98; won an Oscar for ‘All the President’s Men’ art direction
When Carl Bernstein first saw “All the President’s Men,” the 1976 movie based on his and fellow Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward’s best-seller chronicling their legendary investigation of the Watergate scandal, he was amazed at how accura... |
69e8d985a3fbe3f47b40fde1d4e48076 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-12-me-usc12-story.html | USC defends tough protest stance | USC defends tough protest stance
When students demanding a living wage for campus employees took over a Harvard University administration building six years ago, their occupation lasted 21 days and ended with relatively mild reprimands. Hunger strikers seeking an expanded Chicano studies program camped out at UCLA for ... |
898b7d668ccc0fc7409981c65fac8b7c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-12-me-vonnegut12-story.html | His popular novels blended social criticism, dark humor | His popular novels blended social criticism, dark humor
Kurt Vonnegut, an American cultural hero celebrated for his wry, loonily imaginative commentary on war, apocalypse, technology, materialism and other afflictions in “Slaughterhouse-Five” and other novels, has died. He was 84.
One of the last of a generation of gre... |
1c1d1d07e964dff7dda60439826e4649 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-12-na-emails12-story.html | Key Bush aides’ e-mail may be lost | Key Bush aides’ e-mail may be lost
The White House said Wednesday that it may have lost what could amount to thousands of messages sent through a private e-mail system used by political guru Karl Rove and at least 50 other top officials, an admission that stirred anger and dismay among congressional investigators.
The ... |
f0052c6eb7bd44e3aa24d6e3c5e03700 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-12-wk-movies12-story.html | A prime cut of LaBeouf | A prime cut of LaBeouf
SHIA LABEOUF is under Hollywood’s microscope these days. He’s got a lot at stake.
The weight of three high-profile films rests on his young shoulders: the “Rear Window"-esque thriller “Disturbia,” which opens Friday, the animated penguin film, “Surf’s Up,” due out in June, and the latest Michael ... |
0ebde8ab5e97669dfa1de8e419c1646c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-13-et-alameda13-story.html | Sharing Latino arts | Sharing Latino arts
Next to the Mexican market that lures tourists with ponchos, sombreros and jalapeno jelly, the new Museo Alameda opens today as a showcase for Latino arts, culture and history at Market Square.
The museum, a Smithsonian affiliate, offers 11 galleries exhibiting American art and artifacts “as seen th... |
fb5bbcce662838f58b162b6ff9a1b5ca | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-13-et-eastman13-story.html | Triumphantly out there | Triumphantly out there
Although the California EAR Unit is known for taking left turns away from convention, its performance Wednesday at REDCAT was a special brand of departure. The concert consisted solely of the West Coast premiere of “Crazy Nigger,” an hourlong piece for four pianos written in 1978 by the late gay ... |
6db466afc087a66dfbee79ea8d9fe440 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-14-fi-chocolate14-story.html | The courage of their confections | The courage of their confections
Calling all chocoholics. Put down the truffles and power up the PC. It’s time to weigh in on a fundamental question: What is chocolate?
Two of California’s oldest confectioners, See’s Candies Inc. and Guittard Chocolate Co., are battling an attempt to loosen government rules that dictat... |
92de8bb4cc256d419e79171cdcf9590c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-14-na-cringe14-story.html | It wasn’t funny at the time | It wasn’t funny at the time
THE diary is a 70-sheet spiral notebook with candy wrappers and a used pair of chopsticks taped inside. A picture of Donna Summer is glued to its cover next to a scratch-and-sniff pizza sticker that -- after 27 years -- still smells like pepperoni.
Its cursive-scrawled pages hold Becky Cilet... |
5040af190159e74f5c84dc504a3f635b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-15-ca-spiderman15-story.html | The inner life of the super-villain | The inner life of the super-villain
A rumored $250 million is riding on whether sand, venom, a goblin and a mysterious black tar-like substance from outer space can keep a high-flying movie franchise soaring.
Considering that they’ll be filtered through “Spider-Man’s” proven mix of angst, humor, timely themes and all t... |
d72b50e748e8dd89f758c5a665ee5b66 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-15-fg-turks15-story.html | Secular Turks rally to send a message to prime minister | Secular Turks rally to send a message to prime minister
More than a quarter of a million people rallied Saturday in the Turkish capital to voice secularists’ opposition to a run for the presidency by the country’s prime minister, who is affiliated with an Islamist party.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected ... |
8c94c821f691c9b6efb375a656d17bea | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-16-fg-net16-story.html | A World Wide Web of terrorist plotting | A World Wide Web of terrorist plotting
They never met face to face, but the two young zealots became brother warriors in the new land of jihad: the Internet.
Investigators say their bond made them central figures in a terrorism network that spanned eight countries, involved more than 30 suspects and hatched plots in Wa... |
68d13bd92368d806df488244d0cbe303 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-17-me-drill17-story.html | L.A. disaster drill plan questioned | L.A. disaster drill plan questioned
Notice to Westsiders: Disregard the thwack-thwack-thwack of Black Hawk helicopter blades you might be hearing. The West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus is not, repeat not, under attack.
The California National Guard is slated to launch a three-day training exercise today titled O... |
a4913f624f7103c8eddec28ecfe910ca | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-17-na-scotus17-story.html | Supreme Court rejects work-site racial slur case | Supreme Court rejects work-site racial slur case
The Supreme Court refused Monday to put stricter limits on racial slurs in the workplace, turning away an appeal from a black computer technician who was fired shortly after complaining that a white co-worker loudly described a pair of crime suspects as “two black monkey... |
24fcc9ab477b7b5e601fc85113e7f3a2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-18-fg-mayor18-story.html | Nagasaki mayor killed; Japanese gangster blamed | Nagasaki mayor killed; Japanese gangster blamed
Japanese police were trying to determine what may have motivated a high-ranking Nagasaki gangster suspected of shooting the city’s mayor at close range Tuesday, fatally wounding the politician and conjuring dark memories of political violence in Japan.
Nagasaki Mayor Itch... |
04fdf8a34b6b21d29110eabce2a1f994 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-18-me-wrongnumber18-story.html | Drug buyers let fingers do the walking -- to jail | Drug buyers let fingers do the walking -- to jail
Call it a case of drugged dialing.
Two men attempted to page their drug dealer from a Pomona pay phone with an urgent “911" order for dope about 3 a.m. Tuesday. Instead, they got through to police dispatchers, authorities said.
“No one said criminals are smart,” said Po... |
d3ea24e693b0598fd2e503e6835ffab2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-19-me-minorities19-story.html | Ethnicity brings an unwelcome focus | Ethnicity brings an unwelcome focus
The sense of shock and shame that has engulfed the Korean American community in the wake of the murderous Virginia Tech rampage may seem overdone to some, but its roots are familiar to many minorities.
“My first thought when I heard initial reports [of the shootings] was ‘Oh my God, ... |
b86f9c513d55266aa1e46b80b1da8921 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-19-me-phones19-story.html | O.C. caregivers urged to leave phones home | O.C. caregivers urged to leave phones home
The video made national news: a worker caught on a cellphone video repeatedly striking a developmentally disabled man as he cowered in fear and moaned.
In the weeks following the discovery, the administrators overseeing Orange County’s programs for the developmentally disabled... |
849929f266ee5b29b086921488afe9f2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-19-na-cho19-story.html | Gunman’s angry diatribe mailed between attacks | Gunman’s angry diatribe mailed between attacks
In a chilling video made public Wednesday, Virginia Tech gunman Seung-hui Cho declared: “This didn’t have to happen,” likening himself to the Columbine killers and talking of his hatred for the wealthy.
Cho mailed the package, which contained an 1,800-word diatribe and mul... |
4b0a5b343e7193d1edb2e58b823ee390 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-20-et-tapes20-story.html | NBC bashed for unleashing a killer’s rants on its airwaves | NBC bashed for unleashing a killer’s rants on its airwaves
NBC’s decision to broadcast portions of Seung-hui Cho’s angry rants triggered a storm of condemnation Thursday from viewers and victims’ relatives, illuminating the treacherous middle ground between exposure and exploitation in a fast-moving news cycle.
A day a... |
fd39fc68158a8148a4090c0226f6e526 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-20-fg-tattoo20-story.html | Amid violent times, Iraqis turn to indelible IDs | Amid violent times, Iraqis turn to indelible IDs
The ghastly procession of decapitated corpses and mutilated bodies that has defined death in Iraq drove Firas Adil Saadi to do something that was once the province of convicts and degenerates here: He got a tattoo.
The 28-year-old Shiite Muslim now has a marking on his r... |
06f8636aacb4a250198b61fa701e3f74 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-20-fg-wall20-story.html | In Baghdad, a wall rises to contain bloodshed | In Baghdad, a wall rises to contain bloodshed
A U.S. military brigade is constructing a 3-mile-long concrete wall to cut off one of the capital’s most restive Sunni Arab districts from the Shiite Muslim neighborhoods that surround it, raising concern about the further Balkanization of Iraq’s most populous and violent c... |
2db1988b9036b48135bc3ff457430eae | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-20-me-fire20-story.html | Man sets self afire at Long Beach City Hall | Man sets self afire at Long Beach City Hall
A 50-year-old Fountain Valley man walked into Long Beach City Hall on Thursday afternoon and set himself on fire, authorities said, prompting an evacuation of hundreds of workers from the downtown high-rise.
The man was hospitalized in critical condition.
A large white shoppi... |
4b7e7505f1dce3e33b141fd30109f25f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-21-fi-garagebriefs21-story.html | Gas-sipping vehicle gets 1,900 mpg | Gas-sipping vehicle gets 1,900 mpg
With Earth Day less than 24 hours away, we couldn’t pass up mention of the winner of last week’s Eco-marathon Americas, a fuel-economy challenge sponsored by Shell Oil Co.
A team from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo won the $10,000 grand prize by achieving the equivalent of 1,902.7 miles per... |
b87acf41684a4945aba56120a81e86cc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-21-me-lausd21-story.html | Brewer pledges swift action after harsh report on LAUSD | Brewer pledges swift action after harsh report on LAUSD
In the wake of a top-to-bottom review that harshly portrays the Los Angeles school system as inefficient and ineffective, Supt. David L. Brewer on Friday promised to quickly bring in outside experts, hire a chief academic officer and elevate almost all schools to ... |
11296bf2f4364c80623a2ff0ea452d37 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-21-me-reynolds21-story.html | Newell Reynolds, 91; Lewitzky Dance Company set designer | Newell Reynolds, 91; Lewitzky Dance Company set designer
Newell Taylor Reynolds, an architect and a set designer for the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company until it disbanded 10 years ago, died Wednesday. He was 91.
Reynolds, who was married to Lewitzky from 1940 until her death in 2004, died at the home of his daughter, Nor... |
db38e7af9889e001900789cef5a7141b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-21-na-genocide21-story.html | Genocide resolution still far from certain | Genocide resolution still far from certain
It was the year 2000, and Rep. George P. Radanovich was on his way to the Capitol, expecting the House to pass a long-debated resolution he was sponsoring to recognize the Armenian genocide almost a century ago.
But just as the Republican from Mariposa prepared to step onto th... |
bb5712c44c64ceacd2e489964ffffeae | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-22-fi-consumerbriefs22.2-story.html | Delta to give fliers a carbon option | Delta to give fliers a carbon option
Customers buying tickets on Delta Air Lines Inc.'s website this summer will have the chance to donate money to help offset the carbon dioxide created by their airline travel.
Beginning June 1, customers can opt to contribute $5.50 for a domestic round trip or $11 for an internationa... |
4544be8249fa5441231890923ec2975f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-22-me-march22-story.html | Moving forward since riots | Moving forward since riots
After 15 years, she still hasn’t forgotten. How could she? At the height of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Lee Jung-Hui’s only son, Edward, tried to protect Koreatown merchants and ended up dead after one of them mistook him for a looter and shot him.
Still, Lee, 62, has managed to forgive and m... |
f58a074a6756e6d6c0649b85ef2e0de3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-22-op-welch22-story.html | The unspeakable G-word | The unspeakable G-word
ON TUESDAY, President Bush will be obliged, by law, to wrap his double-talking mouth around one of the most curiously persistent debates in modern geopolitics: Whether to call a 92-year-old genocide a “genocide.”
Every April 24 since 1994, the U.S. president has delivered a proclamation honoring ... |
202cad938474f8c042e35ebf1678b107 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-23-et-book23-story.html | Open case on Clarence Thomas | Open case on Clarence Thomas
CLARENCE THOMAS is the most intriguing and perplexing of the U.S. Supreme Court’s nine justices. Sixteen years ago, Thomas narrowly won Senate confirmation following an ugly debate over unproved allegations of sexual harassment. Once on the court, Thomas quickly began articulating a consist... |
3086a217e90a62cbc93fb3e3c1d89f91 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-24-fg-argentina24-story.html | Argentine ex-leader faces kidnapping trial | Argentine ex-leader faces kidnapping trial
The last de facto president of Argentina’s 1976-83 military dictatorship must stand trial on charges that he kidnapped children of those killed in the country’s “dirty war,” a judge ruled Monday.
Reynaldo Bignone and six other high-ranking officers will face prosecution in a c... |
0e312126ad56832f1af713e9d1cfcab1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-24-na-fraud24-story.html | University of Phoenix case to stand | University of Phoenix case to stand
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed entreaties from the University of Phoenix to throw out a massive suit charging the nation’s largest accredited private university with defrauding the government of millions of dollars in federal education loan funds.
The suit was filed in 200... |
6e97123fd395cc46223dc07b93eab35b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-24-na-wiccans24-story.html | Wiccan pentacle is OKd for vets’ graves | Wiccan pentacle is OKd for vets’ graves
The Wiccan pentacle has been added to the list of emblems allowed in national cemeteries and on government-issued headstones for soldiers, according to a settlement announced Monday.
The settlement between the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Wiccans adds the five-pointed ... |
6c6780890c6047eeca14ebadbdc8ca4e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-25-me-haze25-story.html | UCI, fraternity are sued over 2005 death of pledge | UCI, fraternity are sued over 2005 death of pledge
The family of a college student who died after an alleged fraternity hazing incident two years ago has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the fraternity and UC Irvine.
Kenny Luong, 19, suffered fatal head injuries during an August 2005 football game held at a city ... |
c17b8ff3e8641335b8271b0b92db084d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-25-na-autism25-story.html | PCBs cause autism-like condition in newborn rats | PCBs cause autism-like condition in newborn rats
Traces of a chemical banned 30 years ago cause brain abnormalities in newborn lab animals that are similar to defects in children with autism, according to a new study by University of California scientists.
Many scientists say that an array of chemicals in the environme... |
721585f2c6c310f9023621d2d8ffac00 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-25-na-housing25-story.html | New Orleans’ blacks see rental block | New Orleans’ blacks see rental block
African Americans seeking rental housing in the New Orleans metropolitan area face significant discrimination and fewer accommodations to choose from since Hurricane Katrina, a report released Tuesday found.
In 6 out of 10 transactions, African Americans faced less favorable treatme... |
5ebb468f65efcfe9430891cdcb079c0a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-25-sp-daly25-story.html | CBS rejects ad featuring golfer Daly and beer | CBS rejects ad featuring golfer Daly and beer
A television commercial featuring golfer John Daly singing in a honky-tonk bar amid reveling beer drinkers and later shown grabbing a beer from a friend while driving a golf cart has been rejected by CBS.
“It did not meet the standards of the CBS network,” spokeswoman Lesli... |
a5e79521b8e4119cab32d844344a6561 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-26-na-carolina26-story.html | Race is onstage in South Carolina debate | Race is onstage in South Carolina debate
This rural community in the South Carolina midlands has a prosperous face it shows the world.
Orangeburg boasts two shopping malls, several industrial parks, chain hotels just off the interstate and a batch of franchise restaurants. A civic rose garden abuts a neighborhood of ho... |
eba1fa6288234646a60180a6c074632f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-26-sci-bees26-story.html | Experts may have found what’s bugging the bees | Experts may have found what’s bugging the bees
A fungus that caused widespread loss of bee colonies in Europe and Asia may be playing a crucial role in the mysterious phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder that is wiping out bees across the United States, UC San Francisco researchers said Wednesday.
Researchers h... |
eb12540d628684d9216c07bd0cd1cf5d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-26-sci-conflict26-story.html | Doctor freebies common, study says | Doctor freebies common, study says
Nearly 95% of physicians in the U.S. receive free food, beverages, drug samples, sports tickets or other benefits from drug company sales reps eager to influence their prescribing habits, according to a report today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Family practice physicians, w... |
f750321e9ca69680c6939cd9a856f1fe | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-26-sp-collison26-story.html | UCLA’s Collison won’t try for NBA | UCLA’s Collison won’t try for NBA
In the end, Darren Collison said, the decision was easy.
Collison, UCLA’s All-Pacific 10 Conference point guard, will not explore his NBA draft possibilities this year.
The 6-foot-1 sophomore from Rancho Cucamonga said Wednesday he wouldn’t put his name in the eligibility pool and test... |
ac24a1eb006a0f16b4042e2fa7cffdf7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-27-fi-daniels27-story.html | A writer’s transformation makes the personal public | A writer’s transformation makes the personal public
The security guard in the lobby of the Los Angeles Times couldn’t help but ask the question. When he looked at the computer in front of him earlier this week, he saw the picture of a strapping blond man. The screen identified the employee: “Michael Penner, Editorial.”... |
4628f0e70de0beeae57b0511a4ce56f0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-27-fi-power27-story.html | U.S. targets routing of power lines | U.S. targets routing of power lines
Federal energy regulators Thursday singled out most of Southern California as an area in need of more high-voltage power lines and set in motion a process to make it happen -- even if state officials balk.
Critics warned that the move could potentially gut local and state authorities... |
2a99d0e6be4434137803d9bc8080e458 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-27-na-warvote27-story.html | Congress sets terms of Iraq exit | Congress sets terms of Iraq exit
In an act unparalleled since the Vietnam War, Congress passed legislation Thursday that directs the president to begin bringing home U.S. troops from Iraq and extricating America from the midst of a bloody civil war.
The historic 51-46 Senate vote for a $124-billion war spending bill --... |
52d3c38379e5128dfac3dc43e622c345 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-27-oe-palast27-story.html | Media as lapdog | Media as lapdog
IN AN E-MAIL uncovered and released by the House Judiciary Committee last month, Tim Griffin, once Karl Rove’s right-hand man, gloated that “no [U.S.] national press picked up” a BBC Television story reporting that the Rove team had developed an elaborate scheme to challenge the votes of thousands of Af... |
5a92bf21f33b51539ebf9cc21b03590b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-28-fi-doctors28-story.html | Blue Cross settles with physicians | Blue Cross settles with physicians
A group of managed-healthcare companies have reached a $128-million settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed by about 900,000 physicians over alleged unfair payment practices, both sides confirmed Friday.
Under the settlement, 23 Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans and the Blue Cross a... |
d2b500251eb17c4fd409f34c72ae5ffc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-28-fi-garagebriefs28.2-story.html | A two-way street with these hybrids | A two-way street with these hybrids
California power companies are salivating at the idea of plug-in hybrid vehicles that would provide extended all-electric travel using bigger batteries that are recharged from the conventional power grid.
For one thing, the utilities would make money selling the extra juice. For anot... |
47b439c028fff5d142340c69107637bb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-28-na-briefs28.1-story.html | Trooper was killed by friendly fire | Trooper was killed by friendly fire
Friendly fire apparently killed a state trooper in a gunfight that erupted as he searched a Catskill-area farmhouse for a suspect in the shooting of a colleague, officials said.
Trooper David C. Brinkerhoff was fatally shot Wednesday as he and six other members of the force’s elite m... |
a4659d77aca204921fc20c24e1122404 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-29-me-grizzly29-story.html | A hike into horror and an act of courage | A hike into horror and an act of courage
JOHAN looked up. Jenna was running toward him. She had yelled something, he wasn’t sure what. Then he saw it. The open mouth, the tongue, the teeth, the flattened ears. Jenna ran right past him, and it struck him -- a flash of fur, two jumps, 400 pounds of lightning.
It was a gr... |
593fdc2f74666792df8c28a81ccc00d9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-29-na-gop29-story.html | GOP has uphill climb for cash and candidates | GOP has uphill climb for cash and candidates
President Bush’s unpopularity and a string of political setbacks have created a toxic climate for the Republican Party, making it harder to raise money and recruit candidates for its drive to retake control of Congress.
Some of the GOP’s top choices to run for the House next... |
9315ab4af96676834f43c77e84357e1e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-29-re-hotprop29-story.html | It’s a ‘go’ for this big bro | It’s a ‘go’ for this big bro
Emmy Award winner Brad Garrett, who played Ray Romano’s big brother, Robert, on the hit CBS series “Everybody Loves Raymond,” is “looking to make a move,” as he put it.
Costar of the Fox sitcom “ ‘Til Death,” with Joely Fisher, Garrett has put his Hidden Hills home on the market at $9,495,0... |
040b50d9f6df7f3ceb1bad20c5539678 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-29-tm-hollister17-story.html | Dana Hollister | Dana Hollister
Many an Angeleno will tell you that the only time they ever truly love Los Angeles is right after a good scrubbing. Dana Hollister isn’t one of them. And even after a night of unusually theatrical winds, she isn’t blown away so much by the here-to-Catalina view from her hilltop Silver Lake home as she is... |
110dbe764fa16ce57879e043aad1f8ad | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-29-tm-rules17-story.html | If They Mention Voice-Over Work, It’s Just All Talk | If They Mention Voice-Over Work, It’s Just All Talk
One day soon, someone in this town will change your life with the following words: “You should do voice-overs.”
“Really?” you’ll stammer, suddenly fascinated with your newly gold-plated throat. “Do you think I’m good enough?”
“Absolutely,” the guy who knows nothing ab... |
7dfbd25d419c1ddd3ea6cf7aaa5fa051 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-30-et-channel30-story.html | Some ’24' fans call it a day | Some ’24' fans call it a day
JACK BAUER, America’s favorite counter-terrorism agent with the violent code of honor and the weird sadomasochistic bent, is squaring off against a stealthy and unforgiving new enemy.
His fans.
After peaking in the ratings last year, Fox’s thriller “24" has been getting dumped on by seeming... |
bf4c7eabf14940986e54906d94d869a4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-30-me-tanker30-story.html | Bay Area interchange collapse likely to cause weeks of chaos | Bay Area interchange collapse likely to cause weeks of chaos
A gasoline tanker truck crashed and exploded into a tower of flames early Sunday, causing a 170-foot stretch of a major Bay Area freeway interchange to warp and collapse on the freeway below, authorities said.
The accident forced the closure of two damaged se... |
dd89711597cd6860c434abed4813fe1e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-01-fi-dynasties1-story.html | Dow Jones sale a sign of dynasties’ decline | Dow Jones sale a sign of dynasties’ decline
The Bancroft family, which has controlled the prestigious Wall Street Journal for more than a century, is the latest newspaper dynasty to be dismantled in mere months partly under the pressures of the Internet Age.
Its agreement Tuesday to sell Dow Jones & Co. for $5 billion ... |
b91313ee812b99fa7ef6d9e106835665 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-01-me-corinthian1-story.html | School chain to settle lawsuit | School chain to settle lawsuit
Corinthian Colleges, one of the nation’s largest vocational school chains, has agreed to pay $6.5 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that the chain engaged in unlawful business practices by exaggerating its record of placing students in well-paying jobs.
The company, based in Santa Ana ... |
025d459f26e5c3776e9bc6357551404b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-01-oe-simon1-story.html | Addicted to prisons | Addicted to prisons
On july 23, two U.S. District Court judges ordered the convening of a three-judge panel to consider releasing prisoners from California’s alarmingly overcrowded state prison system. The judges’ move raises the possibility that a specific cap on the state’s prison population will come into place with... |
9631a046732f0c7c79fad2faeb6f03d2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-02-me-oakie2-story.html | A ranch gives up the ghost | A ranch gives up the ghost
TIME stands still at Oakridge.
The stone house on the Northridge hilltop is locked. Through its darkened windows can be glimpsed empty rooms that for nearly a half-century echoed with the laughter of comic actor Jack Oakie and a nonstop flow of Hollywood buddies.
Its curving driveway, circlin... |
b273dc929c1729aeae8f755bbc552efc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-02-na-bridge2-story.html | ‘Cars started flying’ | ‘Cars started flying’
With a shudder and a thundering crack, an eight-lane bridge collapsed during Wednesday evening rush hour, plunging dozens of cars and people into the Mississippi River below.
The steel-and-concrete Interstate 35W span buckled and swayed, creaked, and then, in a terrifying instant, crumbled. Green ... |
1b2fac0e29f146cfd26f3b16e9575218 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-02-na-spying2-story.html | New limits put on overseas surveillance | New limits put on overseas surveillance
A special court that has routinely approved eavesdropping operations has put new restrictions on the ability of U.S. spy agencies to intercept e-mails and telephone calls of suspected terrorists overseas, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
The previously undisclosed ruling by the For... |
166d475815438c2406cd94d3e56c8ca7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-03-fg-chile3-story.html | Pinochet-era general on the run is caught | Pinochet-era general on the run is caught
A fugitive ex-general from the Pinochet era was captured Thursday, Chilean authorities said.
Former Gen. Raul Iturriaga Neumann, 69, was arrested without incident in an apartment in the resort town of Vina del Mar, on Chile’s Pacific coast, officials said.
Once a high-ranking f... |
313533d6765e3b8fc1bf75ba03ba8899 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-04-fi-drudge4-story.html | Hot links served up daily | Hot links served up daily
WHEN Los Angeles Times sportswriter Mike Penner revealed in a recent column that he’d soon be changing his name to Christine Daniels, the piece quickly became the No. 1 draw on the newspaper’s website.
From across cyberspace the readers came. Overwhelmingly, they arrived after spotting this ti... |
d9ba16dea1e902591381afcc20537c13 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-04-me-pirates4-story.html | Stuntman sues over ‘Pirates’ injury | Stuntman sues over ‘Pirates’ injury
Johnny Depp’s stunt double in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films has sued the Walt Disney Co. and producer Jerry Bruckheimer for negligence stemming from a practice stunt that landed him in the hospital with serious injuries.
The accident occurred in July 2005 as stuntman Tony Ange... |
b42edc5cdcf72603801f604b130ceb7e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-04-na-warming4-story.html | India, China invited to U.S. climate forum | India, China invited to U.S. climate forum
A White House summit on climate change next month began to take shape Friday, with the announcement that invitations had been extended to such key developing countries as India and China as well as industrialized countries.
Conceived as a forum to discuss ways to halt the rise... |
49e61c64216a8ba0afad5cc5403d43c5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-05-bk-champion5-story.html | Killing moons | Killing moons
MATT RUFF’S imagination has spawned kangaroo trials administered by telepathic purebred dogs, a Volkswagen Beetle haunted by Abbie Hoffman, a one-armed 181-year-old Civil War veteran and a virtual reality programmer suffering from multiple personality disorder. But Ruff’s fourth novel, “Bad Monkeys,” find... |
f358091abe75dc452169caa2ccd24a6b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-05-ca-lambert5-story.html | Epilogue to a writer’s noir life | Epilogue to a writer’s noir life
Like a lot of noir novels, the career of Douglas Anne Munson, a hard-boiled Los Angeles writer who once seemed like one of the city’s bright new lights, just gets murkier and more confusing the closer you look.
Munson wrote a trilogy of novels in the ‘90s, the first of which was the cel... |
6060a76922d63f151a79d5d8507ea846 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-05-ca-signature5-story.html | The one and only | The one and only
Playwrights who dedicate themselves to working in the American theater can look forward to lives of lonely scribbling, mystified condescension and relative penury -- and those are the successful ones. For real money, even the best-known dramatists typically rely on grants, teaching gigs or scripts for ... |
83d1b290fe81388edc016020a394c3d5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-05-sp-xside5-story.html | JAKE BROWN: The Aftermath | JAKE BROWN: The Aftermath
Jake Brown was groggy from all the medication, but he knew where he hurt.
“My wrist is pretty sore and my back and neck feel like I’ve been through a car accident,” he said Saturday morning during a phone interview. “I guess I’ve got a fracture in one of my vertebras, but it’s pretty minor sup... |
97cbebc374d802e0107a700473b1850c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-06-he-effectiveness6-story.html | In short, marketing works | In short, marketing works
The pharmaceutical industry defends its promotional spending as a service to science, physicians and patients. Advertising to patients helps motivate them to improve their health, manufacturers say, and detailing doctors keeps them abreast of new therapies and scientific advances.
Those activi... |
54b3116ac47da1c3979aedeada1bf2fc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-07-fi-google7-story.html | Google Maps redraw the realm of privacy | Google Maps redraw the realm of privacy
Google Inc. has been watching you, Southern California.
A caravan of cars and trucks mounted with cameras has been driving city streets for months, snapping close-up photographs of homes, shops and public places.
Any people who got in the way became subjects in Google’s version o... |
4194dc935b71ce05eeee831518b4bfd2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-07-na-penn7-story.html | Unions blast Clinton aide | Unions blast Clinton aide
As she presses for a coveted endorsement from organized labor, presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is facing a backlash over the business ties of a top campaign aide who has angered the labor movement.
Sen. Clinton (D-N.Y.) and her rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination ar... |
ef828281ab7d768d0ee200a68a11f1d9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-08-et-hotels8-story.html | Check out hotels behind the scene | Check out hotels behind the scene
“Imagine yourself living in a world where everything works, everything shines, everything is where it should be,” says Charlie (Max Beesley), the narrator-star of the series “Hotel Babylon,” newly imported by BBC America. “Well, you can -- you’ve just got to move into a hotel.”
A diver... |
2a1ae123b141f6877cffb5b88c7de289 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-08-et-meercat8-story.html | Meerly beloved | Meerly beloved
Over the years, scientific films and National Geographic specials have inspired visitors to a small, out-of-the-way meerkat sanctuary here. One of the draws was a resident meerkat who served as the model for Timon in “The Lion King.”
But that’s nothing compared to the surge of interest since Animal Plane... |
b9217523a837d87cd5972bd0bd44b884 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-08-fi-bluecross8-story.html | Blue Cross undergoes exam | Blue Cross undergoes exam
When an Indiana company bought Blue Cross of California in November 2003, it promised to maintain and improve the services and benefits of the state’s largest health insurer.
Nearly three years later, state regulators say they have been besieged by complaints that patients are paying more and ... |
911dfc8c3c14676530372ebe2d92e867 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-08-fi-hanks8-story.html | Hanks sues over profit on ‘Greek Wedding’ | Hanks sues over profit on ‘Greek Wedding’
Tom Hanks, wife Rita Wilson and actress-writer Nia Vardalos have sued one of the producers behind the 2002 hit “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” for an unspecified amount of money they allege they are still owed.
The suit, filed Monday in Los Angeles, alleges that producers Hanks, Wil... |
5ed7d30eb7c4a1efd2ff71fdba0c49eb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-09-fg-cardinal9-story.html | Mexico cardinal questioned in priest abuse lawsuit | Mexico cardinal questioned in priest abuse lawsuit
Mexico’s most prominent cardinal was deposed Wednesday in a U.S. lawsuit accusing him of complicity in the alleged rape of a child by a Mexican priest.
Cardinal Norberto Rivera and his lawyers rushed past reporters and photographers waiting outside archdiocese offices ... |
71f225f4858a234fb17cb54582d85d4d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-10-et-goldstein10-story.html | A midlife crisis at New Line | A midlife crisis at New Line
IT’S not unusual for a studio marketing chief to get the boot after a string of box-office failures. But only at New Line Cinema, the studio that often seems to be operating in an alternate universe from the rest of the movie business, could the head of marketing be fired after opening the ... |
417c76545f97520edacc19fd5303b37d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-11-me-beliefs11-story.html | A chance to sample kosher’s diversity | A chance to sample kosher’s diversity
More than 1,500 years ago, Jewish scholars wrote of the shibuta, an unusual fish found in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers of ancient Babylon, modern-day Iraq.
In the Talmud, that encyclopedic compendium of Jewish law and tradition, the shibuta is described as a tasty and popular fi... |
042abc071b878fbb6bdf74b2cdce3288 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-11-me-expoline11-story.html | Major work begins on Expo Line | Major work begins on Expo Line
Standing amid mounds of dirt at the edge of USC on Friday, political leaders celebrated a milestone for L.A.'s fledgling rail system: the start of major construction for a rail line from downtown to the Westside.
But like so many mass transit projects in Los Angeles County, the Expo Line ... |
34117301f1aed82e9c6735d48abbdca3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-11-me-sddiocese11-story.html | Church told to defend bankruptcy | Church told to defend bankruptcy
SAN DIEGO -- The Catholic Diocese of San Diego, which filed for bankruptcy protection rather than face sexual-abuse lawsuits, has failed to disclose all of its assets and has not reported the fair market value of other property, a federal bankruptcy judge said Friday.
Judge Louise De Ca... |
f31f8a706b66dd0eb13fed65d165bfa4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-12-ca-frankoz12-story.html | Frank Oz and that little voice inside | Frank Oz and that little voice inside
FRANK OZ is worried about whether his voice will carry over the din of a noisy Manhattan diner. There’s no need for concern. He has one of the deepest voices imaginable -- and also one of the most beloved, considering the fact that over the past 30 years he’s voiced the syntax-chal... |
f8f50d2b77cbbaa826f0b619d808f346 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-12-ca-hsmortega12-story.html | BACK TO ‘SCHOOL’ | BACK TO ‘SCHOOL’
When Kenny Ortega was a high school student in Redwood City, Calif., his counselor told him he had to choose between his two extracurricular passions: track and drama. He couldn’t do both. It was policy.
Now some 40 years later, that dream-squashing counselor has been paid back -- big time. “High Schoo... |
af3583c0570ca503d83fab575d736d68 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-12-ca-hsmtelevision12-story.html | Another splashy event for the kids | Another splashy event for the kids
IT’S been a big summer for tweens and teens. First the final “Harry Potter” book and now the long-awaited television premiere of “High School Musical 2.”
It is impossible to overstate the importance of this event in so many young lives. The Disney Channel’s 2006 movie “High School Mus... |
d44c73bbe3e93169854f81e715f22201 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-12-fg-iraq12-story.html | Iraqi governor, police chief killed in blast | Iraqi governor, police chief killed in blast
baghdad -- The governor and acting police chief of a southern Iraqi province were killed Saturday in a roadside bombing, raising fears of a backlash in an area that has been beset with fighting between rival Shiite factions.
The attack occurred as Qadisiya Gov. Khalil Jalil ... |
c5b24c51a8bbf084c48b2f256077e7d1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-12-fg-khmer12-story.html | In Year Zero+32, still awaiting justice | In Year Zero+32, still awaiting justice
taprum, cambodia -- Down a potholed dirt road from the Diamond Crown Hotel and Casino, where Thai low-rollers place their bets on blackjack and roulette, Brother No. 2 plays a waiting game with justice.
Nuon Chea, the frail former right-hand man to the late tyrant Pol Pot, lives ... |
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