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Do companies that refuse to hire smokers help them or harm them?
The Cleveland Clinic is a world-famous medical center that is consistently ranked among the top hospitals in the country. It goes without saying that the health professionals who work there don’t condone smoking. In fact, since 2007, the clinic...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Health and Medical Professionals, Health Insurance Cost, Healthcare Provider, Quitting Smoking
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Luxury party train between SoCal and Vegas: En route in 2013?
Travelers headed to Las Vegas for some weekend fun may soon be able to begin their debauchery five hours earlier, if a proposed passenger train line between Southern California and Sin City materializes as planned next year. Las Vegas Railway Express...
Tags: Travel, Eva Longoria, Railway Transportation, Personal Service, Trips and Vacations
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Ex-Marine says tattoo with general's tough words got him fired
L.A. NOWA former Marine claims he got fired from his civilian job as a railroad conductor because he has a tattoo on his arm with the tough words uttered by a Marine general during the early part of the Iraq war.... -
New train safety system unveiled with '08 Metrolink crash in mind
L.A. NOWTransportation officials are scheduled to unveil a safety measure Monday morning designed to keep trains from colliding even in case of human error.... -
U.S. attorney blasts wildfire proposal
PolitiCalGov. Jerry Brown’s new budget proposal includes a provision that would limit legal liability for causing wildfires, a clause that the U.S. attorney in Sacramento on Thursday blasted as a “fairly cynical attempt” to benefit the powerful... -
Central Valley farm groups threaten to sue over bullet train plan
L.A. NOWState bullet train officials set the stage for possible legal challenges from powerful Central Valley farming interests by approving the environmental review for an initial section of track to be built from Merced to Fresno.... -
Elden Hughes dies at 80; longtime Sierra Club leader
Elden Hughes, a crusader for wild places and a leader of the Sierra Club's battles to protect desert wilderness from development and abuse, has died. He was 80.
Hughes, who died of prostate cancer early Sunday at his home in Joshua Tree, Calif., was a...Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Politics, Activism, Diseases and Illnesses, Prostate Cancer
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Inside the Ames Straw Poll and what else to watch for
Top of the TicketTexas Gov. Rick Perry may steal some political thunder from the traditional Republican Ames Straw Poll.... -
Huntington Library sets shows on American history, Chinese mirrors
Culture MonsterTwo American history shows -- one looking at the sweeping changes spawned by the transcontinental railroad and the other at how Civil War photographs influenced the ways the nation grieved -- will highlight the 2012 exhibition season at the Huntington....... -
The stories of two Pullman porters
Readers' Representative JournalAnn M. Simmons wrote a moving article July 5 about Lee Wesley Gibson, who at 100 was believed to be the oldest living Pullman porter -- one of the uniformed railway men who served first-class passengers in a trainâs luxurious...... -
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez: We 'are not under-taxed; the government has simply over-spent'
Top of the TicketNation's first Latina governor vows to veto new taxes and insists on cutting spending and waste.... -
John A. 'Jack' Kyser dies at 76; expert on L.A. economy
John A. "Jack" Kyser, the dean of Los Angeles economists who spoke as an expert on Southern California to observers around the world, has died. He was 76.
Kyser was found dead of unknown causes Monday at his Downey home, said a longtime friend, Wally...Tags: Radio Industry, Economic Policy, University of Southern California, Social Sciences, Economy
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