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Joseph Zuska, 93; Navy doctor developed treatment for alcoholism
Times Staff WriterInside a rusted Quonset hut at the Long Beach Naval Station, Dr. Joseph J. Zuska operated a clandestine program, treating sailors for an illness that in the eyes of the Navy did not exist. It was the mid-1960s, a time when alcoholism and its accompanying...Tags: Surgery, Defense, Bars and Clubs, Buzz Aldrin, Jimmy Carter
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In Southern California, help spreads like wildfire
Lisa Bialac-Jehle was just a few minutes from sleep Friday night when her phone rang. It was the American Red Cross, and they were calling about a fire. The caller told Bialac-Jehle, 52, a member of the organization's disaster action team, that she...Tags: Linthicum, Wildfires, American Red Cross, Christianity, Craigslist, Inc.
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What Bono doesn't say about Africa
WILLIAM EASTERLY is a professor of economics at New York University, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of "The White Man's Burden: How the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest HaveJUST WHEN IT SEEMED that Western images of Africa could not get any weirder, the July 2007 special Africa issue of Vanity Fair was published, complete with a feature article on "Madonna's Malawi." At the same time, the memoirs of an African child...Tags: New York University, Africa, Activism, Burkina Faso, Poverty
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Silence the guns in Gaza
Israel and Hamas must heed a U.N. Security Council call for a "durable and fully respected" cease-fire in the war in the Gaza Strip, which has left about 800 dead and 3,000 wounded, including hundreds of Palestinian women and children. Undoubtedly,...Tags: Refugee, American Red Cross, Civil Unrest, National Government, Judaism
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Their War, My Memories
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe coffee shop girl signaled a greeting from her hospital bed, her face a pointillist palette of wounds, one eye forced shut, the other gazing off into a void. Nahrain Yonaan offered her one functioning hand; the other was swathed in gauze, a mangled...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, New Year's Day, International Military Interventions, Guerrilla Activity, Defense
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At least 3 killed when strong earthquake shakes northern Japan
A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake rocked a rural area of northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least three people, triggering landslides and reportedly knocking down a bridge, fire and disaster management officials said. At least 64 were injured....Tags: Tokyo (Japan), Japan, Disasters, The Associated Press, Career and Workplace
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Peas, Coldplay delivers music with a message
Cause CÉlÈbreFOR YEARS musicians have taken a leading role in one of their industry's most important acts of public service -- turning people's hunger for a great song, well performed, into food that feeds the physical hunger of thousands. Live Aid for Africa is...Tags: Forest Whitaker, Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, Willie Nelson, Republican National Conventions
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Ex-Rep. Mark Siljander is indicted
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterA former Republican member of Congress from Michigan was indicted Wednesday in connection with his work for a U.S.-based Islamic relief organization that allegedly supported a prominent Afghan warlord. Mark D. Siljander, 56, a Washington lobbyist who...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Defense, Trials, Elections, Pakistan
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Save us from the rescuers
The decision by the government of Myanmar not to admit foreign humanitarian relief workers to help the victims of Cyclone Nargis has been met with fury, consternation and disbelief in much of the world. With tens of thousands of people dead, up to 100,...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Crime, Law and Justice, Genocide, International Military Interventions, War Crimes
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Despair, hope in ruined Lebanon camp
Special to The TimesNAHR EL BARED, Lebanon — When Mowaffak Akel first returned to his four-room home in this shattered refugee camp after almost four months away, he found shell casings and spent ammunition cartridges on the floor. "My wife had a panic attack when she...Tags: Homes, Refugee, Metal and Mineral, Charity, Disasters
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Far from island, some can only wait in the dark
Times Staff WriterShe had forgotten her white-gold senior class ring and quinceanera video but had pocketed mascara and a cellphone charger before flames chased her from Santa Catalina Island. But as dawn began to loom Friday, 18-year-old Daisy Saldana began to catalog...Tags: Mother's Day, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Forehead, Education, Personal Service
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Second-guessing first responses
Today, Rider and Carson discuss the difference between local and federal responses to the fires in San Diego. Yesterday, they pointed fingers at the city's lack of preparedness, and later this week they'll discuss whether public policy is encouraging...Tags: Local Government, Duncan Hunter, Wildfires, Defense, Disasters
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