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Can you teach an old media new tricks?
Today, Reynolds and McChesney address the state of contemporary news media. Later in the week, they'll debate the citizen journalism, media consolidation and other issues. Big Media plays to its weaknesses By Glenn Harlan Reynolds Bob, you and I agree...Tags: Marketing, Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, Media Industry, Iraq
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Johnny 'Red' Kerr, Former Bulls broadcaster
Johnny "Red" Kerr, 76, the former Chicago Bulls coach who spent more than three decades as a broadcaster for the NBA team, died of prostate cancer Thursday at his home in Chicago, Bulls spokesman Tim Hallam said. Kerr’s death is a double blow for...Tags: Johnny Kerr, National Basketball Association, Sports, Death, Prostate Cancer
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Emory Elliott dies at 66; scholar and UC Riverside English professor
Emory Elliott, a UC Riverside professor and leading scholar of American literature who was a pivotal figure in the university's intellectual community, has died. He was 66. Elliott, who was found Tuesday at his Riverside home, died of an apparent heart...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Death, Culture, Literature, West Point
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Where's the paper?
Today, Reynolds and McChesney address the future of newspapers. Previously, they debated the state of contemporary news media and the value of traditional journalism. Later in the week, they'll debate media consolidation and other issues. Greatly...Tags: Politics, Companies and Corporations, National Basketball Association, Bob Geldof, Colleges and Universities
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From Bronx poverty to Ivy League
WASHINGTON -- For a teenager from a Puerto Rican family struggling upward from the public housing projects of the Bronx, Princeton University in 1972 was a foreign land. "I felt isolated from all I had ever known," she said later, and the low grade she...Tags: Princeton University, Politics, Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice, Colleges and Universities
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ILLINOIS: In the heartland, getting back to the land
Special to The TimesASK urban kids where peas and carrots come from, and they may answer "the supermarket." "We've lost our connection with the land," said Bruce Wicks, director of graduate studies at the University of Illinois, Champaign, one of the top U.S. agricultural...Tags: Forests, Natural Resources, Farms, Forestry and Timber, Pumpkin
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Cmon, get happy
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTrue or false: ___ I would be happier if I made more money, found the perfect mate, lost 10 pounds or moved to a new house. ___ Happiness is genetic. You can't change how happy you are any more than you can change how tall you are. ___ Success brings...Tags: Politics, Science, Happiness (state of mind), Productivity, Colleges and Universities
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Edwin Traisman, 91; helped develop Cheez Whiz
Times Staff WriterEdwin Traisman, a food researcher who helped create Cheez Whiz and, as an early McDonald's franchise owner in Wisconsin, co-developed the freezing process used to make McDonald's French fries, has died. He was 91. Traisman, a resident of Monona, Wis.,...Tags: Kraft Foods Group, Inc., Companies and Corporations, Colleges and Universities, Death, Obituaries
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Spring break into action
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSpring break -- the collegiate ritual, the parental horror show, the thriving industry -- is here. And given the varying schedules of our nation's college campuses, it will be with us, for better and for worse, through early April. Like an ineradicable...Tags: Key West, Teaching and Learning, Economy, Business and Finance, Tourism and Leisure, Colleges and Universities
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Mark Shepherd Jr. dies at 86; former chairman of Texas Instruments
Associated PressMark Shepherd Jr., a former Texas Instruments Inc. chairman who helped convert the company into an electronics giant during his 40-year career, died Feb. 4 of complications from pulmonary fibrosis at his ranch in Quitman, Texas. He was 86. Shepherd...Tags: Electronics, Technology, Companies and Corporations, Colleges and Universities, Death
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Milt McAuley, Santa Monica Mountains hiking guru, dies at 89
Milt McAuley, the patriarch of hiking in the Santa Monica Mountains whose guidebooks and guided hikes greatly popularized the trails that cut through Los Angeles backcountry, has died. He was 89. McAuley, who continued hiking until three years ago,...Tags: Natural Resources, Tourism and Leisure, Colleges and Universities, Death, Will Rogers
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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: Medical Services, Jimmy Carter, St. Cloud, Armed Forces, Surgery
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