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    May 21, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Oklahoma tornado is a standout, storm scientist says

    A tornado researcher at the University of Alabama at Huntsville couldn't believe it when he heard Monday that a devastating twister was headed toward Moore, Okla.
    A tornado researcher at the University of Alabama at Huntsville couldn't believe it when he heard Monday that a devastating twister was headed toward Moore, Okla. "One of my graduate students came in my office yesterday and said, 'Moore is about to be...

    Tags: Science, Tornadoes, Science and Technology, Natural Disasters

    2. Apr 24, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Spending teenage years in the 'stroke belt' seems to increase risk

    Spending adolescence in the “stroke belt” of the southeastern United States could make people more vulnerable to stroke later in life – even if they eventually move elsewhere, a study published Wednesday suggests.
    Spending adolescence in the “stroke belt” of the southeastern United States could make people more vulnerable to stroke later in life – even if they eventually move elsewhere, a study published Wednesday suggests. What researchers call...

    Tags: University of Washington, Environmental Issues, Physical Conditions, Environmental Pollution, Science and Technology

    3. Feb 7, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Traditional Southern diet, stroke may be linked, researcher says

    Traditional Southern diets may be linked to a higher risk of stroke, a researcher said at a conference on Thursday.
    Traditional Southern diets may be linked to a higher risk of stroke, a researcher said at a conference on Thursday. The lead researcher, Suzanne Judd, a nutritional epidemiologist at the University of Alabama, said her study is the first large-scale...

    Tags: Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Medical Research, Physical Conditions, Diets and Dieting

    4. Jan 19, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. James A. Hood dies at 70; fought segregation at University of Alabama

    James A. Hood, one of two black students whose effort to enroll at the University of Alabama in June 1963 led to Gov. George Wallace's segregationist "stand in the schoolhouse door" and who later forged an unlikely friendship with the former governor, has died. He was 70.
    James A. Hood, one of two black students whose effort to enroll at the University of Alabama in June 1963 led to Gov. George Wallace's segregationist "stand in the schoolhouse door" and who later forged an unlikely friendship with the former governor, has...

    Tags: Justice and Rights, Teaching and Learning, Chicago Tribune, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Students

    5. Aug 29, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  5. Pictures in the News | Aug. 29, 2012

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    Wednesday's Pictures in the News begins in Louisiana, where research students from the the University of Alabama measure wind speeds as Hurricane Isaac makes landfall Wednesday in New Orleans. Isaac was packing 80 mph winds, making it a Category 1...
    6. Aug 12, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Karl Fleming dies at 84; Newsweek reporter chronicled civil rights struggle

    Karl Fleming, a former Newsweek reporter who helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement in the 1960s — and risked his life covering it with perceptive stories about its major figures and the inequalities that fueled it — died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 84.
    Karl Fleming, a former Newsweek reporter who helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement in the 1960s — and risked his life covering it with perceptive stories about its major figures and the inequalities that fueled it —...

    Tags: Syracuse University, Justice and Rights, Vernon Jordan, World War II (1939-1945), Newspaper and Magazine

    7. Aug 6, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. George A. Miller dies at 92; pioneer of cognitive psychology

    George A. Miller, an iconoclastic psychologist who played a crucial role in shifting his field from the study of behaviors to the direct examination of thought processes, died July 22 at his home in Plainsboro, N.J. He was 92 and died of complications of pneumonia and dementia.
    George A. Miller, an iconoclastic psychologist who played a crucial role in shifting his field from the study of behaviors to the direct examination of thought processes, died July 22 at his home in Plainsboro, N.J. He was 92 and died of complications...

    Tags: Networking, Science, Pneumonia, Noam Chomsky, Harvard University

    8. Jul 9, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Alabama tornado team scours paths of killer storms

    HACKLEBURG, ALA. -- The Mobile Meteorological Measurement Vehicle -- a worn-looking '90s-model Dodge Intrepid with classic rock on the radio, a tower of weather gauges attached to its roof and a laptop computer bolted to its dash -- crested a rolling hill on its way to tiny Hackleburg, Ala.
    HACKLEBURG, ALA. -- The Mobile Meteorological Measurement Vehicle -- a worn-looking '90s-model Dodge Intrepid with classic rock on the radio, a tower of weather gauges attached to its roof and a laptop computer bolted to its dash -- crested a rolling hill...

    Tags: Science, Weather Warnings, Teaching and Learning, National Weather Service, Students

    9. May 10, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Nicholas Katzenbach dies at 90; attorney general under Johnson

    WASHINGTON — Nicholas Katzenbach, the Kennedy administration lawyer who faced down Gov. George Wallace to enroll the first black students at the University of Alabama and who helped write the landmark civil rights and voting rights acts of the 1960s, has died. He was 90.
    WASHINGTON — Nicholas Katzenbach, the Kennedy administration lawyer who faced down Gov. George Wallace to enroll the first black students at the University of Alabama and who helped write the landmark civil rights and voting rights acts of the...

    Tags: Students, Racism, Regional Authority, Justice System, Robert F. Kennedy

    10. Jan 4, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Gene Bartow dies at 81; former UCLA basketball coach

    Gene Bartow, the successor to John Wooden as UCLA basketball coach who became the architect of a new and successful athletics program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, died Tuesday evening. He was 81.
    Gene Bartow, the successor to John Wooden as UCLA basketball coach who became the architect of a new and successful athletics program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, died Tuesday evening. He was 81. Bartow, who was diagnosed with stomach...

    Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, National Basketball Association, FedEx Corporation, Cancer, John Wooden

    11. Dec 27, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  11. 'Gump,' 'Bambi' among 2011 National Film Registry selections

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    he 1994 Oscar-winning best film, “Forrest Gump,” Walt Disney’s 1942 classic animated family film, “Bambi,” Charlie Chaplin’s first feature-length comedy “The Kid” and a 1912 silent comedy “A Cure for...
    12. Sep 29, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. PASSINGS: Claude Kirk, Arch West

    <b>Claude Kirk</b>
    Claude Kirk Florida's 1st GOP governor of 20th century Claude Kirk, 85, a flamboyant self-promoter who became Florida's first Republican governor of the 20th century, died Wednesday at his West Palm Beach home, his family announced. Democrats dominated...

    Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Tortilla Chips, Republican Party

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