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After livers, cash to UCLA
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersA powerful Japanese gang boss who received a liver transplant at UCLA Medical Center donated $100,000 to the Westwood hospital shortly after the surgery, The Times has learned. A plaque dated November 2001 at the entryway to a seventh-floor surgery...Tags: FBI, Japan, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Health and Safety at School, Liver
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Don Haskins, 78; basketball coach was first to win NCAA title with 5 black starters
Special to the TimesDon Haskins, the coach who hastened the full integration of college basketball when he started five black players for Texas Western College against an all-white University of Kentucky team and won the 1966 national NCAA championship, died Sunday. He was...Tags: University of Southern California, Sports, Basketball, Entertainment, Eyewear
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Gordon B. Hinckley, 97; led Mormons' rapid growth
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterGordon B. Hinckley, the elderly but indefatigable Mormon leader who guided the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints into the 21st century by building more temples, traveling more miles and moving Mormonism closer to the religious mainstream than...Tags: Television, CNN (tv network), Entertainment, George W. Bush, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Condom experts told that size matters
As the world's top condom experts convene this week to update international standards, one American entrepreneur has a simple message: Size matters. It's shaking up an industry that has generally taken a one-size-fits-all approach. Frank Sadlo, founder...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Health, Baseball, Standards, Sports
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Loaded sentences
Douglas Hofstadter, the author of "I Am a Strange Loop," is a cognitive scientist and director of Indiana University's Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition.In "The Stuff of Thought," celebrated Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker sets out to explain how language reveals our inner nature. Terming us "verbivores, a species that lives on words," Pinker argues that our verbivorous, highly biased perception of...Tags: Applied Physics, Science, Language, Lifestyle and Leisure, Foods and Beverages
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Stop calling O'Reilly names
Armed with propaganda, and dangerous with ideological fervor, Los Angeles Times columnist Rosa Brooks stated flat-out that the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly, calls people names every 6.8 seconds in his opening monologue. Anyone who watches...Tags: News Media, CNN (tv network), George Soros, Bill O'Reilly , Jerry Springer
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The mystery that is mourning
Special to The TimesGrieving used to be seen as a very straightforward process: You cried at the funeral, were sad for a few months, then you had some "closure" and got on with your life. Psychologists — both pop and professional — thought that anyone who didn't...Tags: Lou Gehrig, Columbia University, University of Chicago, Health, Health and Safety at School
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The Whole Story on Whole Life
Times Staff WriterThe granddaddy of cash-value life insurance is called whole life, and if there was ever a product that consumers find difficult to understand, this is it. Entire books are dedicated to explaining whole life, but whole generations are still left wholly...Tags: Mutual Funds, Consumers, Personal Finance, Times Mirror Square, Insurance
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The Demonized Seed
Special to The TimesOn an otherwise unremarkable day nearly 30 years ago, in a San Fernando Valley head shop, an ordinary man on LSD had an epiphany. The one thing that could save the world, it came to him, was hemp. Thunderbolts come cheap on LSD, but this one looked...Tags: Ralph Nader, Juvenile Delinquency, Science, University of Southern California, Justice System
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Ancient Secrets to Success
Legions of followers swear by his advice. His disciples include CEOs, celebrity agents, sports coaches and TV mob boss Tony Soprano. Hollywood has turned his how-to book into a movie, and fans on the Internet parse his every word. Deepak Chopra? L. Ron...Tags: National Security, Television, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Tony Soprano (fictional character), Sports
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For this party over spring break, bring your own hammer
Times Staff WriterJohn KINDER was cagey about what happened on spring break two years ago. "I had a good time" was all he would tell me about his visit to Panama City Beach, Fla., a popular stop on the party circuit. But this spring break, the sophomore at Indiana...Tags: Sports, Nature, Basketball, Natural Resources, Education
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Number of Nuns on Brink of Precipitous Drop
Times Religion WriterAs Roman Catholic nuns approach the next century, a new nationwide survey confirms fears long voiced throughout the church: Nuns appear to be dying out as an institution. In a survey of 1,049 sisters in the United States and Puerto Rico, The Times...Tags: Roman Catholicism, Health, Vatican City, Purdue University, Society
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