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Published Date: July 11, 2009
PATT MORRISON ASKS | KEVIN STARR
The author talks about his youth in an orphanage, his latest book on the story of California, and the state's current budget mess.
As President Obama arrives in Ghana, his background brings advantages -- as well as political perils. His visit to the West African nation will be low-key and brief.Opportunities found by one group -- the Han -- and lost by another -- the Uighurs -- are behind the violence in China's far west.Editorial
Before school district officials put a parcel tax on the ballot, they must show they'll change their ways.Reports from Los Angeles, Sacramento, Laguna Niguel and ChinoOBITUARIES
Wilkes designed album covers for the Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Janis Joplin and other legendary musicians.Parents pressing for answers have encountered the worst of Mexico politics -- impunity, corruption and secrecy. A list of owners of such day-care centers shows many are politically connected.Church leaders, gathering in Anaheim for their first national convention in three years, also consider repealing a de facto ban on the consecration of gay bishops.It's not just the Michael Jacksons and Anna Nicole Smiths who pop pills. Society's reliance on painkillers and sleeping aids has us walking a fine line.Lawmakers who had focused on fundraising now turn to unrelated legislative measures. Some blame apparent public apathy amid a string of such financial calamities.A study in the Marshall Islands indicates that applying the naturally occurring sugar topically to emerging baby teeth can significantly lower rates of decay.China: 400,000 flee homes after Yunnan quake / Britain: 8 soldiers die in Afghanistan / Somalia: Islamists behead 7 prisoners / Spain: Man fatally gored in Pamplona / Myanmar: Suu Kyi awaits verdictHomeland Security tells local police agencies to focus on serious crimes, not minor ones, in its 287(g) program .Agency used 1989 data for a plant that's really in Santa Fe Springs.OBITUARIES
Shor's work helped lay the foundation for the theory of tectonic plates and continental drift.Faculty and other workers would be required to take between 11 and 26 unpaid days off under plan presented by UC President Mark Yudof.In a reportedly cordial closed-door meeting at the Vatican, the pope discusses his opposition to abortion and stem-cell research, views that Obama, unlike his predecessor, does not share.The debate over how to fund an overhaul to insure tens of millions more has slowed legislation in both chambers. Still, Obama says he's 'confident that we're going to get it done.'An inflated evacuation slide had caused control problems on a flight last summer, says an NTSB report. The presidential candidate and his staff were on board.Washington, D.C.: New parks chief named / Colorado: Obama books for inmates OK'd / Florida: shuttle launch delay possible / Washington, D.C.: Bob Dole has surgery / And finally: 14 years for contemptAyatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani tells worshipers that spelling out rules regarding campaigns and debates could remove tensions. An Iranian American academic is detained again.A folding process takes place in the egg, leading to the bony exterior that is an integral part of the reptile's anatomy, scientists say.Editorial
The Obama administration believes the Defense of Marriage Act doesn't prevent their number from being reported in the census. That's fine, but Obama should push for the repeal of the law.The U.S. commander in Afghanistan is expected to recommend a rapid increase in the size of the Afghan army and police, which could require sending more U.S. troops for training.The Southern Christian Leadership Conference has targeted the Rev. Eric P. Lee, president of the Los Angeles chapter, for his outspoken advocacy.Robin Long, released from Miramar Marine Corps Air Station, said the hardest part of his 12 months in the brig was being away from his young son. He had fled to Canada in opposition to the Iraq war.Dennis Joe Rodgers Jr. is shot to death on the anniversary of his father's killing. 'This is unbelievable,' a relative says.Director Leon Panetta last month learned that his agency had misled lawmakers about a program, and canceled it. Speculation runs rampant.Home Delivery and Customer ServicePain pumps: An article in Friday's Section A about overdoses delivered by pain pumps at UC Irvine Medical Center said federal regulators began investigating the facility's anesthesiology department in January. The investigation was conducted in 2008. |
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