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The birth of a Twitter trend: #replacebooktitleswithbacon
Jacket CopyLots of great book titles with bacon! And if you've seen too many go by on Twitter lately, blame Carolyn Kellogg and Elissa Schappell.... -
TCA Press Tour: PBS to air the first documentary about presidential photographers
Show TrackerWe agree with director and producer John Bredar: How is it possible that the story of what it's like to be a presidential photographer has never been told? Not for much longer, though. PBS will premiere a National Geographic special,...... -
Christopher Hitchens: 'It's not a good cancer to get'
Jacket CopyThe Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg spoke to Christopher Hitchens at his home in Washington, D.C. Currently undergoing treatments for esophageal cancer, Hitchens looks slim and appears to be losing his hair, yet he speaks with his characteristic... -
A passion for art, a perilous pursuit
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFirst of three parts 'I'm being arrested." Roxanna Brown, a renowned expert in Southeast Asian ceramics, was whispering into the hotel telephone. Downstairs in the lobby, her host, University of Washington professor Bill Lavely, didn't know what to...Tags: Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Culture, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Newspaper and Magazine, Columbia University
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Her career revived, scholar turns tipster
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSecond of three parts Roxanna Brown never saw the car that hit her. The 36-year-old expert in Southeast Asian art was pulling her motorcycle out of a parking lot in Bangkok when the vehicle knocked her onto a busy road. There she was repeatedly...Tags: Theft, Travel, Archaeology, National or Ethnic Minorities, Asia
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Perspectives on the fall of the Berlin Wall
We make fun of Nostradamus and numerologists, but give editors an anniversary and the floodgates open. We're anniversary-ologists, as USA Today might say. Unfortunately, trying to take the pulse of what happened in Eastern Europe in 1989 is more complex...Tags: Corruption, Erich Honecker, Communist Party, Russia, Democracy
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'The Last Day' by Nicholas Shrady
Special to the Los Angeles TimesMay 11, 2008 The earthquake that leveled Lisbon in 1755 shook more than the ground, journalist Nicholas Shrady reveals in this lively account. It flattened religious and philosophical certainties as well, and it was an equal-opportunity disturber of the...Tags: Natural Disasters, Social Issues, Europe, Disasters and Accidents, Slavery
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Honey, I shrunk the president
Dear President Bush: As a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, I sympathize with your pique toward that pesky reporter who tried to analyze your body language at a news conference this month, A National Intelligence Estimate had just...Tags: Defense Equipment, Diplomacy, United Nations, Society, Iraq
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IPhone photography a hot-button issue
Tribune reporterThere's an unlikely hot-button issue in photojournalism today, and it has nothing to do with circulation woes, working in conflict zones or icing down an achy back from lugging equipment. It's the iPhone. Specifically, “Can I use my iPhone to shoot...Tags: White House, Arts and Culture, Arts, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Apple iPhone
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Allan Powell: Can the preachments of philosophers heal the soul?
One is bound to be disconcerted when they come across news that a whole new branch of philosophy — wedded to therapy — has been in practice for some time and that they had been totally unaware of its existence. Nevertheless, quietly, and...Tags: Psychiatry, Health, Philosophy, Woody Allen, Science and Technology
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Discovery amps originals for its cablers: New skeins trade on cars, nature, politics and history
VarietyDiscovery Channel unveiled four new series, a raft of renewals and a handful of specials Thursday at its annual upfront presentation heavy on non-fiction essentials, cars, nature, politics and history. Sister net TLC continues mining the world of...Tags: White House, TLC (tv network), American Chopper (tv program) , Robert Redford, Amish
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Allan Powell: New find of an old book sheds light on Einstein
Socrates has written: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” It can be said with assurance that the great physicist, Albert Einstein, has been thoroughly examined — inwardly by his introspective efforts and at a distance by his...Tags: Science, Philosophy, Unrest, Conflicts and War, World War I (1914-1918), Religion and Belief
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