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Letting Go
For years, Stefanie Mullen elevated blogging about “eye-rolling, door-slamming teens and tweens” into an art form. Now she has something new to write about. Letting go. Mullen’s oldest son, Keenan, will be leaving their suburban...
Tags: Twitter, Inc., Skype, U.S. Department of Education, Culture, Teaching and Learning
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MOCA's Deitch to New York Post: LACMA takeover still an option
Is Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art all-in when it comes to its own independence? The question arises from a recent comment by museum director Jeffrey Deitch in the New York Post. MOCA this week announced the launch of "MOCA Independence,...
Tags: Politics, Political Fundraising, Artists, Eli Broad, University of California, Los Angeles
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Skulls of alligator kin shed new light on reptiles' murky history
Two skulls found in the Panama Canal Zone shed new light on the migration history of caimans, southern relatives of the alligator – and also hint that North and South America were much closer together earlier than previously thought. The new study...
Tags: Fossils, Science and Technology, Panama, South America, Central America
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Bertram Wyatt-Brown dies at 80; historian examined Southern honor
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, an American history professor who wrote widely on Southern history and culture and whose book on honor in the antebellum South was a 1983 Pulitzer Prize finalist, died Nov. 5 of pulmonary fibrosis in Baltimore. He was 80. Wyatt-...
Tags: University of Oxford, The Washington Post, Human Interest, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events
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Rankings of online college and graduate programs released
L.A. NOWReflecting growing interest in -- or at least curiosity about -- online education, U.S. News & World Report on Tuesday released its first rankings of fully online college and graduate degree programs. The magazine has for decades ranked more traditional..... -
Possible Earth-like planet could hold water; scientists cautious
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.By taking a fresh look at old data, an international team of astronomers has discovered a possible new super-Earth planet relatively nearby that could potentially hold liquid water, scientists said Wednesday. The research, released by the journal...Tags: Science and Technology, Gainesville, Electronics, Astronomy, Science
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Using junk science to promote Proposition 37
Proposition 37, the ballot measure mandating the labeling of genetically modified food that is also known as the "right to know" initiative, is narrowly running ahead of the opposition, according to the latest opinion polls. But even if the measure...
Tags: Biology, Biotechnology, Los Angeles Times Columnists, Food Industry, Politics
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Walter J. Zable dies at 97; founder of Cubic Corp.
Walter J. Zable, the founder and chief executive officer of San Diego-basedCubic Corp.during six decades of innovation in electronic technology for national defense and the civilian market, has died. He was 97.
Zable died June 23 at Scripps Memorial...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Football, Space Programs, Sports
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Harry Crews dies at 76; Southern writer with darkly comic vision
Harry Crews, a rough-hewn Southerner who drew a keen following with novels that describe a Hieronymus Bosch landscape of grotesques — characters who are tossed into rattlesnake pits, walk on their hands, croon lullabies to a skull and literally...Tags: Polio, Gainesville, Literature, Sears Holdings Corp., Heart Attack
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Carrie Brownstein, Harry Crews, 'Cooking With Poo,' more book news
Jacket CopyBook news to start Monday: a memoir will come from rocker and Portlandia star Carrie Brownstein, remembering Harry Crews, crazy creative writing students and crazy book titles and more.... -
Peter Berg dies at 73; advocate for bioregionalism
When thousands of American youths dropped out of mainstream society and descended on San Francisco in the mid-1960s convulsion known as the counterculture, Peter Berg and a small band of like-minded subversives were there to greet them.
Calling...Tags: Peter Coyote, Natural Resources, Gary Snyder, Diseases and Illnesses, Human Interest
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Did Robert Redford play high school baseball with Don Drysdale?
The Fabulous ForumBASEBALL LEGEND: Robert Redford played high school baseball with Don Drysdale on the Van Nuys high school team. In his entertaining memoir, Bob Broeg: Memories of a Hall of Fame Sportswriter, the late, great St. Louis sportswriter Bob Broeg related......
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