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b4a8d029b5491b84315a23f818c60248 | https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/08/20/why-is-the-sky-dark-at-night/ | Why Is The Sky Dark At Night? | Why Is The Sky Dark At Night?
There's no doubt, to anyone who's ever experienced it, that the night sky is in fact dark. But... [+] explaining this simple fact, if you think about it deeply, raises a lot of questions that need to be addressed. Wikimedia Commons user ForestWander
From our perspective here in the Solar ... |
f68d7df4565062dee7cd7fc89e01eea7 | https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/08/27/this-is-why-time-has-to-be-a-dimension/?sh=5d7542873646 | This Is Why Time Has To Be A Dimension | This Is Why Time Has To Be A Dimension
A time-lapse photo like this composition reminds us that photographs are normally snapshots of... [+] locations at particular moments, with each moment distinct and unique from the last. In the context of relativity, time is not just a coordinate, but a dimension all unto itself. ... |
58e86c23993b80461ed30ebfe5101f7d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-oct-26-na-miers26-story.html | Before Bush, U.S. Judge in Texas Was Miers’ Hero | Before Bush, U.S. Judge in Texas Was Miers’ Hero
When U.S. District Judge Joe Estes of Dallas died on his 86th birthday, they held his funeral at the Highland Park United Methodist Church. His former law clerk Harriet E. Miers gave the eulogy.
“The verdict is sure and unanimous,” she said. “Judge Estes was a great man.... |
110b3d41fbb5393032e445ecd1e77c99 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-oct-27-na-miers27-story.html | Critics and a Senator Raise Ante for Miers | Critics and a Senator Raise Ante for Miers
In new signs of eroding support for Harriet E. Miers, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman sent her a sharply worded list of questions Wednesday on constitutional law, and one of the nation’s leading grass-roots evangelical organizations called for the withdrawal of her Sup... |
a6b8ca3fcd386e8abbf841cfb0a3cc20 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-oct-28-fi-night28-story.html | Director Warns of Big Screens’ Extinction | Director Warns of Big Screens’ Extinction
One of Hollywood’s top filmmakers delivered a rallying cry to the nation’s theater owners Thursday, warning that one of the great American traditions -- the collective moviegoing experience -- was being threatened with extinction.
Speaking at the annual ShowEast convention in O... |
a9fff3902bf73fffd7b34f365c0da17b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-oct-28-fi-sex28-story.html | Hijacker of ‘Sex.com’ Is Arrested | Hijacker of ‘Sex.com’ Is Arrested
Four years after dodging a $65-million court judgment by fleeing the country, former online-porn mogul Stephen Michael Cohen was arrested by Mexican authorities in Tijuana and handed over Thursday to U.S. agents.
Cohen, a multiple felon and longtime con man, had been on the run since b... |
88061f8febaf36109e275a996009923a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-oct-28-oe-macdonald28-story.html | It doesn’t have to be a woman | It doesn’t have to be a woman
THE COUNTRY can breathe a sigh of relief that President Bush, not usually one to admit mistakes, had the humility and wisdom to withdraw his nomination of Harriet E. Miers.
Now, to avoid a similar debacle in the future, the president should remove from his decision-making process the misgu... |
9a368fa39d1023e7204557a82a8a790e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-oct-29-me-rome29-story.html | Italians Say Photos Show 6 Met Items Were Looted | Italians Say Photos Show 6 Met Items Were Looted
Extending their reach beyond the J. Paul Getty Museum, Italian authorities have used confiscated photographs to trace six pieces of allegedly looted ancient Greek pottery to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
According to Italian court records, prosecutors also ... |
57a5ff4f105b87d22198c9cdde3bf8b0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-oct-29-oe-wilson29-story.html | Our 27 months of hell | Our 27 months of hell
AFTER THE two-year smear campaign orchestrated by senior officials in the Bush White House against my wife and me, it is tempting to feel vindicated by Friday’s indictment of the vice president’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.
Between us, Valerie and I have served the United States for ... |
3dbefb45ad33d68c861a86fc6f4a6c43 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-oct-30-me-getty30-story.html | New Getty Panel to Examine Operations | New Getty Panel to Examine Operations
After months of mounting troubles, the J. Paul Getty Trust announced Saturday that its board of trustees had formed a special committee to investigate its acquisition of antiquities and its use of tax-exempt funds.
The committee, composed of five board members, will review issues r... |
b5dadb775de6366fac579b3c3296fcbc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-03-na-race3-story.html | Images of the Victims Spark a Racial Debate | Images of the Victims Spark a Racial Debate
The multitude of anguished black faces telecast from New Orleans over the last six days has stirred a national discussion in living rooms, chat rooms and radio talk shows.
The central questions seem to be: Why are most of Hurricane Katrina’s victims black, and does the color ... |
e0fb6d1e65e6ccedd3437464174ee4d5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-03-sp-nascar3-story.html | Driven to Be Diverse | Driven to Be Diverse
Citing the increasing influence of Latinos in this country, Time magazine recently named the 25 most influential, among them Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
NASCAR, despite its announced “Drive for Diversity,” would be hard pressed to find 25 Latinos in its top three divisions. But if a lis... |
ef38432be11fc6e8052ce64816c0cad4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-04-tr-ntb4-story.html | How Katrina has affected travel | How Katrina has affected travel
HURRICANE KATRINA continued to cause havoc for travelers after it ripped through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
Some developments related to travel:
* Hundreds of flights into New Orleans and other places were canceled or diverted, and carriers typically waived change fees ... |
c5e65b2b74a684f7e2e76cf6fc840834 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-05-et-culture5-story.html | A strong, soulful, wicked, frail city | A strong, soulful, wicked, frail city
In the opening scene of Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Blanche DuBois arrives at the New Orleans tenement home of her sister Stella and brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski in a state of anxious uncertainty. “They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then trans... |
ba8bba08dd3c3c721c7c899cd8a94232 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-05-na-successor5-story.html | Supreme Court Picture Gets Complex | Supreme Court Picture Gets Complex
The death of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has complicated White House plans for a smooth and quick confirmation for Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr.
Several members of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday they were considering a delay in the Roberts hearings, whic... |
22647e849e916cd8ccf590b4e11e4c40 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-06-fi-kazaa6-story.html | Kazaa Loses Court Ruling | Kazaa Loses Court Ruling
A federal court ruled Monday that the popular file-swapping program Kazaa infringes copyright and gave its purveyors two months to alter the system so its users can no longer engage in music piracy.
Hailed as a victory by the recording industry, the court’s decision has implications well beyond... |
4630c920a57590dff5c09f62710eba4b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-07-et-podcast7-story.html | Politicos embrace podcasting | Politicos embrace podcasting
Like many 24-year-olds, Matthew Slutsky keeps his iPod close at hand. He listens to it going to work, doing errands, walking down the street -- whenever he is “on the go,” he says.
But some of the most listened-to names in Slutsky’s iPod are not today’s hottest bands; they’re politicians an... |
24436797b7aac2da56b44824cd4a2e4d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-08-hm-oaks8-story.html | A CALIFORNIA ESSENTIAL | A CALIFORNIA ESSENTIAL
EVERY year, as summer shortens into autumn, cricket song swells in a yard up the street. The tree crickets will chorus from nightfall to dawn, every night through October, until they have seduced a female or died trying. No other music manages to be so elegiac and at the same time so hopeful. Or,... |
0b6c3eefbaa35131c8efb85f1affde74 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-10-oe-daum10-story.html | What we dug about Maynard | What we dug about Maynard
IT’S ONLY FITTING that much of the would-be hubbub about the passing of actor Bob Denver, who died Sept. 2, was swept away by the news of Hurricane Katrina. Denver was, after all, famous for playing a storm survivor himself. As Gilligan, the maladroit first mate on the ‘60s-era kitsch-classic ... |
3a278654135a1ed69cdab67492ea29d0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-10-sci-aquarium10-story.html | Aquarium Becomes Watery Grave for Sea Life | Aquarium Becomes Watery Grave for Sea Life
Mr. Bill, a 13-foot-long sawfish with a snout like a chain saw, was floating dead in his tank.
So were more than half a dozen sand tiger sharks, sleek gray creatures measuring 9 feet long. They were like so many neglected goldfish.
The macaws in the Amazon rain forest exhibit,... |
396fe52d76a7f673e69f6f5b1b850d40 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-12-fi-golden12-story.html | A Perfect Time for Assessing Blame | A Perfect Time for Assessing Blame
The waters receding from a flood zone always leave exposed the unseemly reality lurking beneath the surface.
In the case of Hurricane Katrina, we’re being told not to look. Officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, ask news organizations not to publish pictures of... |
d78340af15679d56a469325afaa00a92 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-12-fi-korn12-story.html | EMI Takes a Stake in Band | EMI Takes a Stake in Band
EMI Group, the world’s fourth-largest music corporation, is expected to announce today a deal with the rap-metal band Korn that some say would fundamentally change how record companies profit from the superstars they help create.
The deal, which would give EMI a stake in almost every dollar th... |
f93f8e09c06f17be42e57e2f5c0d6c3f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-13-na-color13-story.html | An Understated Start to Hearings | An Understated Start to Hearings
The ornate Russell Caucus Room has been the site of many of the Senate’s more memorable moments -- including investigations into scandals such as Watergate and Teapot Dome as well as the free-for-all interrogations of Supreme Court nominees Robert H. Bork and Clarence Thomas.
Based on t... |
3d05299e953044eac595abeb4632a5a4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-13-na-poverty13-story.html | Floodwaters Lift Poverty Debate Into Political Focus | Floodwaters Lift Poverty Debate Into Political Focus
The vivid images of poor residents, most of them African American, stranded across New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have generated more discussion in the nation’s capital about poverty than any event in years.
It is too soon to say whether this will ... |
e35c759b78a2ec0e9b36a5ffb1d7e8eb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-14-fg-bush14-story.html | U.S. Will Stick With Iraq Mission, Bush Pledges | U.S. Will Stick With Iraq Mission, Bush Pledges
President Bush promised his Iraqi counterpart Tuesday that the United States would persevere in the joint fight against insurgents.
Appearing with President Jalal Talabani during a day of meetings with foreign leaders, Bush pledged that U.S. forces would “stay on the offe... |
8afd9a1453fefd98e1a1abe405fd391f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-14-na-abortion14-story.html | Roe Ruling: More Than Its Author Intended | Roe Ruling: More Than Its Author Intended
In mid-1971, the Supreme Court agreed for the first time to hear a constitutional challenge to the long-standing state laws limiting abortion. Its decision to do so reverberates today.
At that time, Texas and 30 other states had laws, dating from the 19th century, that made an ... |
8defbbb64cfc74994a3b10c4c3b65453 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-14-na-gitmo14-story.html | 18 Detainees Force-Fed at Guantanamo | 18 Detainees Force-Fed at Guantanamo
A hunger strike at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has grown to 128 prisoners who are demanding that they be immediately released or granted access to a legal process to defend themselves against blanket allegations that they are terrorists.
The strike, begun more than ... |
15d5a16b573b433ffe9f0a3488e64c14 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-15-wk-bowl15-story.html | He holds Bowl in palm of his hands | He holds Bowl in palm of his hands
IN his U.S. debut Tuesday night, a 24-year-old conductor from Venezuela with curly hair, long sideburns and a baby face accomplished something increasingly rare and difficult at the Hollywood Bowl. He got a normally restive audience’s full, immediate and rapt attention. And he kept it... |
ebe6115bb81a478f76dc3f6da89a5643 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-16-et-ear16-story.html | Lend an ear to Charlie Kaufman | Lend an ear to Charlie Kaufman
Charlie Kaufman -- who has written the screenplays for such merrily mind-bending films as “Being John Malkovich,” “Adaptation” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” -- isn’t so much a trickster as a hide-and-seek artist.
His films, however odd their premise may seem at first, are ne... |
0b687a2291ef5563a5229c48f6a9a90f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-16-fg-tyson16-story.html | Tyson a Heavyweight in Chechnya | Tyson a Heavyweight in Chechnya
He’s had trouble from Indianapolis to Sardinia, but former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson got an enthusiastic welcome Thursday in Chechnya.
Russian television showed Tyson shaking hands with and hugging his host, First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, a former boxer wh... |
df5262c2b19df22a89312e9d4838d5d2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-16-na-fugitive16-story.html | Woman Confesses to 1993 Robbery | Woman Confesses to 1993 Robbery
A woman accused in a multimillion-dollar armored car heist on the Las Vegas Strip surrendered to federal authorities Thursday, saying she was tired of more than a decade on the run and wanted her son to have a normal life.
“I truly feel this is the right thing to do,” Heather Catherine T... |
3213cd71f97d870eb7584d7d34e2a3cc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-16-sci-oralsex16-story.html | Study Suggests Shift in Teen Sex Practices | Study Suggests Shift in Teen Sex Practices
More than half of American teens ages 15 to 19 have engaged in oral sex, increasing to nearly 70% for those who are 18 and 19, according to the largest federal study of the nation’s sexual practices.
The study also found that 11% of women ages 18 to 44 reported having at least... |
470e7e94659c7db9578808afae8c7928 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-17-fg-manners17-story.html | China Changes Coarse | China Changes Coarse
Even Miss Manners might blanch at the task at hand: charm school for a billion people, a good number of them convinced that life means never having to say you’re sorry, excuse me or thank you.
This is no tutorial on fish forks. In advance of the 2008 Olympics, the government has embarked on a crash... |
b1d97ee4c7744f54a88835454bce91b5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-17-me-luft17-story.html | Sid Luft, 89; Was Judy Garland’s 3rd Husband | Sid Luft, 89; Was Judy Garland’s 3rd Husband
Sid Luft, Judy Garland’s third husband, who produced her Oscar-nominated 1954 film “A Star Is Born” and staged her comeback in concerts in the 1950s, has died. He was 89.
Luft died Thursday at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica of natural causes, said John Kimble, a ... |
7847083a0453236ed969a22907fc5c17 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-19-fi-hotel19-story.html | Another L.A. Comeback | Another L.A. Comeback
Early in the last century, it housed the city’s first permanent symphony orchestra. During the Jazz Age and beyond, it swayed to the sounds of such legends as Duke Ellington and Count Basie. Rock ‘n’ roll followed, and then a long period as a nondescript university property.
But in its next incarn... |
4087489422983146e66bf2bca8541e1f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-20-na-blacks20-story.html | Storm Strains Bush’s Ties to Black Clergy | Storm Strains Bush’s Ties to Black Clergy
For many of the black ministers who have allied themselves with President Bush and a Republican strategy to boost the party’s African American support, the government’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina put a severe strain on new and still-fragile bonds of trust.
But just as s... |
e17abb759dbd17d3adbf5ed0dfbc1f2b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-20-na-dems20-story.html | Kerry and Edwards Say Bush’s Actions Have Been a Disaster | Kerry and Edwards Say Bush’s Actions Have Been a Disaster
Both members of the 2004 Democratic presidential ticket sharply criticized President Bush in dueling speeches Monday that highlighted the partisan conflict over Hurricane Katrina and early maneuvering for the 2008 White House race.
Speaking at Brown University i... |
e64134a715c473bb41e43eca738297d3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-20-na-probe20-story.html | Joint Investigation of Response Called Off | Joint Investigation of Response Called Off
Congressional Republicans signaled Monday that they had abandoned their plan to conduct a joint House-Senate probe of the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina.
In announcing a joint inquiry earlier this month, the Republican leadership said it would be the most efficient... |
ed42312be72672c24f373666be3bbf86 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-23-me-rocket23-story.html | Research Rocket Lights Up Sky | Research Rocket Lights Up Sky
A rocket carrying a military research satellite blasted off Thursday evening, dazzling spectators from California to Arizona with a rainbow of colors as it streaked across the sky at dusk.
The Minotaur rocket carrying a DARPA payload launched into orbit at 7:24 p.m. from Vandenberg Air For... |
34ed1f51604bad77957de2eb15c84d48 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-25-fi-samsung25-story.html | ‘Republic of Samsung’ Confronts a Backlash | ‘Republic of Samsung’ Confronts a Backlash
Cho Sung Yoon and his wife live on the 27th floor of a Samsung apartment complex here.
They cook their food on a Samsung electric range. They call each other on Samsung cellphones and check their e-mail on a Samsung home computer.
Recently, they used their Samsung credit card ... |
d4e86fe4701ed402e7babf186e2ba570 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-25-me-getty25-story.html | Getty Had Signs It Was Acquiring Possibly Looted Art, Documents Show | Getty Had Signs It Was Acquiring Possibly Looted Art, Documents Show
Attorneys for the J. Paul Getty Museum have determined that half the masterpieces in its antiquities collection were purchased from dealers now under investigation for allegedly selling artifacts looted from ruins in Italy.
Italian authorities have id... |
3ff00919763c1e03d8cc9b1ade33bf77 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-25-na-ethics25-story.html | Group Lists 13 ‘Most Corrupt’ in Congress | Group Lists 13 ‘Most Corrupt’ in Congress
A watchdog group, naming what it calls “the 13 most corrupt members of Congress,” is calling for ethics investigations of some of the most prominent leaders on Capitol Hill in a report to be released Monday.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington says in its repor... |
a9187b106bd2c02a32952cfd07fd367a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-26-et-chief26-story.html | Prime time power base | Prime time power base
Stumping for the nation’s first female president, Susan Estrich is forming a different kind of party.
Estrich -- USC law professor, author and longtime Democratic insider -- has invited about 50 area VIPs to a “house party” at her Hancock Park home, promoting ABC’s Tuesday premiere of “Commander i... |
c96685292f17ac50ce43ed7c7a2a13e4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-26-et-whitehouse26-story.html | A woman at the helm | A woman at the helm
As an intern for Rep. Hilda L. Solis (D-El Monte), Alejandro Rivas often gave tours of the U.S. Capitol. When he came to “The Portrait Monument,” a seven-ton sculpture in the Rotunda honoring three pioneers of women’s suffrage, he would tell visitors that Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Su... |
82d4585f7b1753031e6a27b74b54a8b4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-28-fi-calecon28-story.html | Peak for Housing Said to Be Near | Peak for Housing Said to Be Near
California’s housing boom appears to be peaking, and the resultant slowdown is expected to produce “weak growth” in the state’s economy during the next two years and a possible recession by the end of 2007.
That’s the view of economists at the UCLA Anderson Forecast, which plans to rele... |
9d012eaeadf74d928f6ebd8ac4a1f3d7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-28-fi-globetrotters28-story.html | Roy Disney-Led Fund Buys 80% of Harlem Globetrotters | Roy Disney-Led Fund Buys 80% of Harlem Globetrotters
An investment fund led by Roy E. Disney has purchased an 80% stake in the Harlem Globetrotters, the parties said Tuesday.
Shamrock Holdings’ Capital Growth Fund, based in Burbank, said it hoped to develop merchandising and other new revenue sources for the Globetrott... |
a781586e945edfdf2854050690907387 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-28-fo-watch28-story.html | Julie, unplugged | Julie, unplugged
SO many people have blogs now, it’s hard to imagine there’s anyone left to read them. Twelve thousand new ones are supposedly created every day, and more than 1,200 English-language blogs are devoted to food alone. Some of them are even interesting.
But in the beginning there was Julie Powell. In Augus... |
8f0dc80f4daeccb9b04bfb217f6e3480 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-28-sp-soccol28-story.html | Galaxy Is Far From Relevant | Galaxy Is Far From Relevant
Somewhere along the line this season, the strings have become entangled and the Galaxy puppets have lost their way.
In such cases, it is easy to blame the puppets, even though the blame really belongs to the puppet masters.
Elsewhere in the soccer world, fans would be berating an underachiev... |
5f246571e1b9712b242cb9a8ad91ea72 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-03-fi-movielink3-story.html | Coming Sooner to PCs: Movies | Coming Sooner to PCs: Movies
Major studios today will make mainstream movies available for downloading the same day they are released on DVD -- a significant step in Hollywood’s tentative migration to the Internet.
But movie fans will pay for the convenience: Downloadable flicks such as “Brokeback Mountain,” “King Kong... |
7c0db19e02ca25b2a399df7f7f6384a3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-07-fg-rights7-story.html | U.S. Won’t Seek Seat on U.N. Rights Panel | U.S. Won’t Seek Seat on U.N. Rights Panel
The United States will not seek a seat on the new U.N. Human Rights Council this year, the State Department said Thursday, a decision that underscores its disappointment with the framework of the panel but also eliminates an opportunity to help shape it in its crucial first yea... |
0b1fe3ead297cea71374fb488b304c99 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-09-admn-mystery9-story.html | Investigators Revisit 1960s Mass Slaying on Lonely Texas Road | Investigators Revisit 1960s Mass Slaying on Lonely Texas Road
When the tire on their 10-year-old Buick went flat in this rugged, isolated stretch of West Texas about 40 miles north of the Mexican border, it seemed merely an inconvenience for Manuel Arellano and his family.
Arellano fixed the flat, but had another one a... |
d50a12e8a428c57615961e5ca3718938 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-09-na-quilts9-story.html | Sewing Faith and Understanding | Sewing Faith and Understanding
After she watched a documentary about the role of faith at ground zero, Clara Wainwright got to thinking. She had lived in Boston for 66 years, and knew exactly one person who was Muslim.
Wainwright decided to learn about Islam from the experts: women who practice it. And she decided to l... |
b142d92a6ea4c6af6ec47b9728b351c1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-10-he-crossfit10-story.html | A workout that’s fast, furious and not for the faint of heart | A workout that’s fast, furious and not for the faint of heart
I’m hyperventilating. Twelve minutes into what I thought was a simple, 20-minute workout of pull-ups, kettle bell swings and short-distance runs, I’m bent over with my hands on my knees, mouth wide open, head spinning, shoulders numb and torso heaving with g... |
6696bae91153cd56b1dd55a55aaadbb3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-11-oe-mcclintock11-story.html | THE MOST important thing for any poor... | THE MOST important thing for any poor...
THE MOST important thing for any poor person trying to improve his or her condition is, of course, a job. It is the entry-level job that accords impoverished workers -- even those with no skills, no references and no employment record -- the invaluable opportunity to succeed and... |
e9b67e01dd8d591bf8a7d3409aaa93c9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-12-et-rutten12-story.html | In fewer words, a fitting tribute | In fewer words, a fitting tribute
“HIS argument was with the Book of Genesis.”
Hugh Kenner’s famous summation of Samuel Beckett’s life and work gets right to the heart of things because, in part, it adheres so closely to the advice the Irish Nobel laureate used to give younger writers: “Pare it down. Pare it down.”
Eve... |
c2b37298766bbe31ed4eef4d863924f5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-12-fg-cocola12-story.html | Beverage Creates a Buzz | Beverage Creates a Buzz
Call it the “Real Thing.”
Indians in this remote mountain village in southern Colombia are marketing a particularly refreshing soft drink that harks back to Coca-Cola’s original formula, when “coca” was in the name for a reason.
Advertising posters here describe the carbonated, citrus-flavored C... |
1b10299e4a50b460796c8d7ca475d7da | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-13-ed-judas13-story.html | Judas’ deal, 2,000 years later | Judas’ deal, 2,000 years later
THERE WAS ANTIQUITIES DEALER Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos, coming off like an angel on the National Geographic Channel’s special TV program on the Gospel of Judas. “I think I was chosen by Judas to rehabilitate him,” says Tchacos, who bought the 1,700-year-old papyrus. “Judas was asking me t... |
a6790bae1157b144f0ebe0723380be05 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-13-oe-miller13-story.html | Uh-oh, it’s the tax man | Uh-oh, it’s the tax man
TO: The American taxpayer
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23174ddecd010ed63bf9c8281fe8ba9b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-14-fi-burd14-story.html | Safeway CEO’s Pay Is Up 42% | Safeway CEO’s Pay Is Up 42%
Safeway Inc. said Chief Executive Steven Burd received a $3.25-million salary and bonus for 2005, up 42% from the $2.29 million he received for the previous year.
Burd also received 1.03 million options as part of his 2005 compensation, which had an exercise price of $18.11 each and vest in ... |
3b17b98c0093e509986b387bb0f6fff5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-15-oe-feinstein15-story.html | Confronting Iran | Confronting Iran
TEHRAN THIS WEEK claimed that it had enriched uranium, a first step toward nuclear weapons capability. The question now is whether the Bush administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq, or will it set our nation on a road that leads to military confrontation with Iran?
No one concerned about U.... |
bdbc9726ea90f7486f32efda52faa3aa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-17-fi-chijapan17-story.html | China-Japan Economic Ties Glow Amid Political Chill | China-Japan Economic Ties Glow Amid Political Chill
A year after about 20,000 anti-Japan protesters jammed the streets here, Japanese and Chinese officials are still wrangling over how to repair a damaged Japanese Consulate building -- a reflection of the icy political relations that persist between the two nations.
Bu... |
d892749d8759e8df13770cff3a39b910 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-23-ca-lomax23-story.html | The Red-rumor blues | The Red-rumor blues
WHEN Alan Lomax died in July 2002 at age 87, his reputation as America’s preeminent advocate of traditional music seemed above reproach. “His importance in the daily work of our profession cannot be adequately eulogized,” folklorist Roger Abrahams wrote at the time. “Lomax was the person most respon... |
86531734f2ed1be1975d10034786b604 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-23-me-jailbreak23-story.html | 3 Men Flee From Jail in San Diego | 3 Men Flee From Jail in San Diego
Two suspected murderers and a suspected child molester escaped Saturday from the San Diego County jail on Otay Mesa near the Mexican border, officials said.
The three escaped from the recreation yard at George Bailey Detention Facility on Alta Road and were seen running into bushes in ... |
6eb2d992be9ecc6001c2b1fbcc509fbb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-24-me-grand24-story.html | Gehry Sees His Glass Towers Transforming Downtown L.A. | Gehry Sees His Glass Towers Transforming Downtown L.A.
Architect Frank O. Gehry plans to erect a translucent, glass-curtained tower rising 47 stories above his landmark Walt Disney Concert Hall as the centerpiece of the Grand Avenue project, a bold statement that would alter downtown Los Angeles’ skyline and reinforce ... |
106554e09f4d88c6c8f78bca8d293002 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-24-me-lice24-story.html | Some Parents Bugged by New Rule on Head Lice | Some Parents Bugged by New Rule on Head Lice
The Los Angeles Unified School District has dropped its head lice policy in favor of one that is more lenient, allowing students to miss much less school because of the pesky condition. But that change has left some parents scratching their heads.
For years, the district’s p... |
86680ff4189497fdc476381b81bf1960 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-26-me-jacobs26-story.html | Jane Jacobs, 89; Urban Theorist, Community Activist Who Fought Lower Manhattan Freeway Plan | Jane Jacobs, 89; Urban Theorist, Community Activist Who Fought Lower Manhattan Freeway Plan
Jane Jacobs, an urban theorist and community activist whose books argued for the rehabilitation of neighborhoods on traditional lines, breaking with emerging trends in city development, died Tuesday. She was 89.
An American-born... |
17c985727b0f99017093343801d120a8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-27-wk-carolla27-story.html | An exchange of opinions? | An exchange of opinions?
HOWARD STERN replacement Adam Carolla seems to be following in his predecessor’s provocative footsteps. The morning show host, who has repeatedly come under fire in his career from activists accusing him of slurring Asian Americans, faced off against one of his harshest critics Wednesday in a s... |
c6a9f5bbd0e2d556ff9d4e5553751440 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-29-me-bookawards29-story.html | Garcia Marquez Wins Fiction Prize | Garcia Marquez Wins Fiction Prize
Gabriel Garcia Marquez won the top fiction prize Friday for his novel, “Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores,” and Hilary Spurling received the biography award for her second volume on the life of artist Henri Matisse at the 26th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, in a ceremony at UCLA.
... |
543a8d6c21e54d6c52fc876e160a0e9d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-29-me-howe29-story.html | Steve Howe, 48; Former Dodger Pitcher Whose Drug Use Hurt Career | Steve Howe, 48; Former Dodger Pitcher Whose Drug Use Hurt Career
Steve Howe, a former Dodger relief pitcher whose cocaine and alcohol abuse overshadowed and ultimately tarnished his major league baseball career, was killed early Friday morning when he rolled his pickup truck in an unincorporated area of Riverside Count... |
177c4993775cbaf0dc8a1b7b54260631 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-30-ca-roth30-story.html | Unflinchingly into the void | Unflinchingly into the void
TOWARD the end of Philip Roth’s new novel, “Everyman,” there is a scene when the unnamed protagonist meets a gravedigger while visiting a cemetery, and realizes that this man may one day bury him. It’s a striking interaction, marked by both the physics and the metaphysics of dying -- which i... |
5ca0a7f3cbebc8d172a9f92313a7224b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-30-re-125green30-story.html | Still standing, like the rest of the city | Still standing, like the rest of the city
MY mother was born in 1928 on an orange grove in Covina. She was proud of the fruit -- Florida, bah. Yet in her dying days, as she recalled that farm, it wasn’t the oranges and lemons and limes that she talked about. It was the oak tree at the end of the farm drive.
For those w... |
4ff028475716310226719c3a60877d3a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-02-et-quick2.3-story.html | Save Harry Potter, authors plead | Save Harry Potter, authors plead
Two of America’s top authors, John Irving and Stephen King, made a plea to J.K. Rowling Tuesday not to kill the fictional boy wizard Harry Potter in the final book of the series, but Rowling made no promises.
“My fingers are crossed for Harry,” Irving said at a joint news conference bef... |
6eb4dcf1d324109cbf5e2b1980d09ea6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-03-sp-xwomen3-story.html | For Women, It’s Nearly Ex Games | For Women, It’s Nearly Ex Games
Fabiola da Silva is the leading female medal-winner in X Games history, a seven-time in-line skating gold medalist, but she won’t even be in California when the games are contested today through Sunday at Staples Center and the Home Depot Center.
Dallas Friday won her fourth gold medal i... |
82c3898090b437fc82c9f8a7ac2dcb28 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-07-me-abortion7-story.html | Labor Is Backing Abortion Rights | Labor Is Backing Abortion Rights
California’s leading union organization, bucking organized labor’s long-standing neutrality on the issue of abortion, is for the first time taking a strong stand in favor of abortion rights.
Meeting behind closed doors last month, the California Labor Federation -- which represents more... |
3bed9a0844381342458b902172eb466b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-08-et-conspiracy8-story.html | An indictment of Mr. Conspiracy | An indictment of Mr. Conspiracy
Memo to Oliver Stone: Conspiracy theorists have a bone to pick with you.
The filmmaker’s latest release, “World Trade Center,” does not engage in any of the cloak-and-dagger mumblings that have made the rounds, particularly on the Internet, in the wake of the 9/11 tragedy. All this has c... |
03f3afc4189f98682cde2b05239d184a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-08-fg-juliet8-story.html | A Couple Divided by Faith | A Couple Divided by Faith
He has spent the last year in Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison, a suspected foreign militant many miles from home.
She remains in the neighborhood on the northeastern edge of Paris where they grew up, worrying, wondering, trying to bring him back.
But the 23-year-olds are separated by more t... |
2beff4d70c1807af57fb99d3cdb72cd2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-09-et-etheridge9-story.html | She’s speaking out through her songs | She’s speaking out through her songs
It all started after Melissa Etheridge began talking publicly about her battle with breast cancer. First, Safeway and Ford Motor Co. -- co-sponsors of Race for the Cure -- asked if she would write a song about the experience for their fundraiser. She produced an anthem, “I Run for L... |
2e1a871aed91e633f2ff451c83623d48 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-09-me-ocbriefs9-story.html | Sewage Spill Closes Harbor to Swimmers | Sewage Spill Closes Harbor to Swimmers
Authorities closed the harbor to swimmers Tuesday because of a broken line at a sewage pump-out station for boaters.
An undetermined amount of sewage spilled into the harbor, according to the Orange County Health Care Agency.
The area will remain closed until tests show the water ... |
c33d4a95a261ed32680351e0f538b8eb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-10-na-assess10-story.html | Partisan Crevasse May Be Widening | Partisan Crevasse May Be Widening
Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut says he can win reelection as an “independent Democrat.” But his primary defeat signaled that the label may be a contradiction in terms: Many Democrats are hungry not for independents but for junkyard-dog fighters who will counter the aggressive tactic... |
09ac3eae3e7ff2bdd9c8cc7b72b53276 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-11-me-endorse11-story.html | L.A. Chamber of Commerce Endorses Villaraigosa’s School District Plan | L.A. Chamber of Commerce Endorses Villaraigosa’s School District Plan
As both sides prepare for a fateful debate in Sacramento over the future of Los Angeles public schools, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Thursday picked up the endorsement of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, which announced its backing for his ... |
396e718a7238662c4cc938f19d96b11b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-14-me-thaves14-story.html | Bob Thaves, 81; Creator of “Frank and Ernest” | Bob Thaves, 81; Creator of “Frank and Ernest”
Whatever life form the amiable outcasts at the center of the long-running comic strip “Frank and Ernest” take, they never quite fit in.
Traveling the universe, the pair most recognizable as eccentric old men would occasionally change shape -- in one strip they could be cent... |
81a1ffe7657f043cf7e69491c767c476 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-17-hm-revell17-story.html | A prism of beauty and light | A prism of beauty and light
WHEN Frank Lloyd Wright died in 1959, he entrusted wife Olgivanna to carry on his life’s work. A week before her own death 26 years later, she passed the torch again, this time to Wright’s closest disciple, his son-in-law and the man who more than any other had dedicated his life to serving ... |
4612609b718d74a1f19614952e874ea6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-18-fi-briefs18.4-story.html | Time Warner to Restate Earnings Back to 2000 | Time Warner to Restate Earnings Back to 2000
Time Warner Inc. said it would restate its financial results after an independent auditor found problems with the way it accounted for a number of transactions in 2000 and 2001, mainly involving online advertising.
The restatement comes as part of a settlement with the Secur... |
eaac61f2436a1ca2a9a646cd52689bce | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-19-me-beliefs19-story.html | Christian Comic Books Still Seeking a Boffo Market | Christian Comic Books Still Seeking a Boffo Market
On his recent book tour, Robert Luedke skimmed four nearly empty rows of folding chairs at a Borders bookstore, hoping someone in the audience -- an audience of three -- would have a question. Or maybe, against the odds, someone would ask him to sign a poster touting h... |
1b4db1f201574e2934f2b50205d5b593 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-20-fi-nevada20-story.html | Desert Connections | Desert Connections
Even now, as heavy equipment peels back the cactus and creosote bush to carve out roads and building sites, it’s hard to believe that this 67-square-mile tract of empty desert will blossom into one of the biggest cities in the fastest-growing state in the country and the projected home to more than 2... |
c6c9ed88bdc168bc3709fd3d9c0d404c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-23-na-katrina23-story.html | Anniversary Draws Bush to Gulf Coast | Anniversary Draws Bush to Gulf Coast
As next week’s anniversary of Hurricane Katrina triggers recollections of rooftop refugees and massive devastation along the Gulf Coast, the White House has begun a public relations blitz to counteract Democrats’ plans to use the government’s tardy response and the region’s slow rec... |
4807eed536cb5e5d8f16709cc0b97d4a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-25-oe-brooks25-story.html | Thongs for kids, and other scary stuff | Thongs for kids, and other scary stuff
IT’S BEEN a good week for the media, and a bad week for parents.
The arrest of former schoolteacher John Mark Karr in the slaying of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey launched a flurry of excited stories about pedophiles, child abduction and murder. The cable news stations could ... |
56bae0393efd745ba4804d13c12d3971 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-26-me-recruit26-story.html | Retaliation Alleged for Teaching on Iraq War | Retaliation Alleged for Teaching on Iraq War
Among the students at San Fernando High School, a sun-baked campus in a poor, mostly Latino area on the northern fringe of the San Fernando Valley, the issue of military recruiting looms large.
The school sends hundreds more students to college than it does into the military... |
f69ea0dd4cd43264c6a17153b8014723 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-28-he-closer28-story.html | Latest food additive: Viruses | Latest food additive: Viruses
If you want to get rid of a pest, why not use a littler pest to plague it? That’s the tack OKd last week by the Food and Drug Administration, which has for the first time approved the use of bacteria-eating viruses as an additive to foods.
From now on, these viruses -- known as bacteriopha... |
e187a8764915dc6a9e8f70aee5b586fb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-28-he-genetherapy28-story.html | Biotech’s bright hope | Biotech’s bright hope
TO the shrill whine of a high-speed drill, neurosurgeon Dr. Paul Larson makes two nickel-sized holes in Shirley Cooper’s skull. Guided by a computerized MRI map, he plunges a long, thin needle through one hole and deep into the brain -- and empties the syringe.
A very special payload trickles into... |
5a2f12957670b1d21934bd7b4a6e5465 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-28-he-genetherapyside28-story.html | Gene therapy drug shows potential in cancer trials | Gene therapy drug shows potential in cancer trials
Among the most promising gene therapy trials are ones to treat various forms of cancer. More than 100 of these are in the works, taking a variety of approaches: using genes to ramp up the immune system or block the action of other, cancer-causing genes, to name a coupl... |
4ae9caa4c7f640ec616006a283da18f0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-28-me-late28-story.html | Man Arrested in Hoax Call Over Bomb on Jet | Man Arrested in Hoax Call Over Bomb on Jet
A late-arriving passenger who was denied permission Saturday night to board a JetBlue airliner leaving Long Beach Airport later called and falsely claimed there was a bomb aboard, authorities alleged Sunday.
The passenger, identified as Yechezkel Wells, 21, of Miami Beach was ... |
65aa9f0cc9783f4a3095570805eb0fa8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-30-na-legion30-story.html | Rumsfeld Says Critics Appeasing Fascism | Rumsfeld Says Critics Appeasing Fascism
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday compared critics of the Bush administration to those who sought to appease the Nazis before World War II, warning that the nation is confronting “a new type of fascism.”
Speaking at the American Legion convention here, Rumsfeld deli... |
7a7fcc06765f529c8ca3f2604617fcbd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-31-fi-warm31-story.html | State on Verge of Greenhouse Gas Restrictions | State on Verge of Greenhouse Gas Restrictions
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders agreed Wednesday on a plan to cut by 25% the amount of greenhouse gases emitted from California electric power plants, refineries and other sources by the year 2020.
Later, the agreement was approved by the Senate 23 to 14 ... |
72bb2c539ac64f297bd9a6e2ce66df97 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-31-me-ford31-story.html | Glenn Ford, 90; Prolific, Popular Actor Starred in ‘Blackboard Jungle,’ ‘Gilda’ | Glenn Ford, 90; Prolific, Popular Actor Starred in ‘Blackboard Jungle,’ ‘Gilda’
Glenn Ford, the rangy, laconic actor who in a long and prolific career in films and television portrayed characters from gallant leading men to saddle tramps, died Wednesday. He was 90.
Ford, a top box-office draw in the 1950s whose career ... |
e2b8667d9ded16cb96f951578337a2f3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-01-et-aura1-story.html | Fantasy--or nightmare? | Fantasy--or nightmare?
Life is full of moments when, in our imaginations, we stop time and in that split second we do things we might otherwise lack the courage or talent to accomplish.
In the sublime psychological thriller “The Aura,” the final feature by Argentine director Fabian Bielinsky, who died in June at age 47... |
bfb13b3eea7ba46ae7d32b03543718fb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-01-et-needles1-story.html | Common threads of global AIDS | Common threads of global AIDS
Thom Fitzgerald’s “3 Needles” is surely the writer-director’s most ambitious film to date, a sprawling three-episode epic exploring the spread of AIDS in different regions of the world. At times diffuse and discursive, it is nevertheless impressive, especially in its provocative depiction ... |
0a7c8825ce8e41d9ba291188e87532a3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-01-et-town1-story.html | Out of character, the star of ‘Borat’ is quite a dandy | Out of character, the star of ‘Borat’ is quite a dandy
In Hollywood, work never really stops -- it’s unfolding in screening rooms, living rooms and private reception rooms ... This is the start of a regular feature.
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For many of the women who attended Fox Chairmen Jim Gianopulos and Tom Rothman’s party for “Borat,” t... |
d280f732c4bd102c51f1d6ffc1d4b8c2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-01-et-white1-story.html | Making an agent seem likable, a real star turn | Making an agent seem likable, a real star turn
Think Kay Thompson as the stylish, sophisticated magazine editor in the film “Funny Face.” Then both Glinda the good witch and her evil sister in “The Wizard of Oz.” And finally, an itinerant Texas preacher, more huckster than holy.
Julie White used all of them to find Dia... |
c7d776503eab890e59335f7a09035026 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-01-fg-mexpresident1-story.html | Taking helm amid turmoil | Taking helm amid turmoil
Felipe Calderon takes office today as one of Mexico’s weakest presidents, hemmed in by ruthless drug lords, industry monopolists, tax cheats and a bare-knuckle leftist movement that threatens to block his every move.
Calderon’s only hope of fixing the nation’s social and economic ills lies with... |
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