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Writer David Foster Wallace found dead
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersDavid Foster Wallace, the novelist, essayist and humorist best known for his 1996 novel "Infinite Jest," was found dead Friday night at his home in Claremont, according to the Claremont Police Department. He was 46. Jackie Morales, a records clerk at the...Tags: Jim Carrey, Colleges and Universities, Comedy (genre), Sports, Philosophy
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Archie Green dies at 91; folklorist studied lives of working people
Archie Green liked to tell people he had two educations -- one on San Francisco's waterfront, the other in the university. But the former shipwright and carpenter didn't just trade his blue collar for a white one. He merged the two identities and...Tags: Career and Workplace, Colleges and Universities, Death, Country and Western (genre), Shipbuilding
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Northern Illinois University shooting leaves 6 dead, 16 wounded
Chicago Tribune reportersA gunman dressed in black stormed into an oceanography class at Northern Illinois University Thursday afternoon and opened fire with a shotgun and two handguns, killing five students and wounding 16 more in a matter of seconds. Then, still on stage, he...Tags: Chicago Board of Trade, Career and Workplace, Colleges and Universities, Murder, Students
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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: Religious Festivals, Natural Resources, Forests, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), Pumpkin
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Superfruits, super powers?
Special to The TimesWant a taste of the tropics? Forget the plane ticket. Go to the grocery store and take your pick: acai sorbet, mangosteen iced tea, pomegranate granola, noni smoothies, yogurt-covered dried goji berries and more. Fruits from faraway lands have been...Tags: Natural Resources, Forests, Colleges and Universities, Marketing, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Beaches benefit the mind and body
Special to The TimesThe sights, the scents, the sounds, the sand — a day at the beach is packed with stress relief and overall rejuvenation. Waves crash, gulls cry, wind whispers and sun warms skin. At the same time, worries seem to fade, the mind clears, the heart...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Tuberculosis, Symptoms, Skin Cancer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Big Oil buys Berkeley
JENNIFER WASHBURN is a fellow at the New America Foundation and the author of "University Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education."ON FEB.1, the oil giant BP announced that it had chosen UC Berkeley, in partnership with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to lead the largest academic-industrial research alliance in U.S....Tags: Renewable Energy, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Colleges and Universities, Research, University of California, Berkeley
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Stream of Wikileaks and other leak websites slippery for banks, churches, even Guantanamo
WEB SCOUTLATELY, the world is springing a lot of leaks. Ask Julius Baer Bank of Zurich, or the Church of Scientology. Ask the Joint Task Force at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Ask any agency or entity listed on Wikileaks.org's "Analysis Requested" page, a long list of...Tags: Saddam Hussein, Cults and Sects, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Philosophy
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Paul Lauterbur, 77; 'the father of MRI'
Times Staff WriterPhysicist Paul C. Lauterbur, who received a 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for giving physicians the ability to look inside the human body without using harmful radiation, died Tuesday at his home in Urbana, Ill. He was 77 and had been...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, National Institutes of Health, Stony Brook, Death
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Singer-songwriter helped define soft rock
From Times Staff and Wire ReportsDan Fogelberg, the singer-songwriter whose hits "Leader of the Band," "Part of the Plan" and "Same Old Lang Syne" helped define the soft-rock era, died Sunday at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer. He was 56. His death was posted on his...Tags: Career and Workplace, Diseases and Illnesses, Opera (genre), Death, Public Relations
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In Iraq, bonding over tea and disco
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThey could be seen as the military odd couple. The Marine colonel is tall and lean. His parents fled Castro's Cuba for U.S. democracy. He talks in measured, confident tones. His expertise is in staff work: making bureaucratic organizations run smoothly....Tags: Colleges and Universities, Civil Unrest, Death, Gaming, Democracy
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Gerald Schoenfeld dies at 84; Shubert chairman ushered shows to Broadway
Associated PressGerald Schoenfeld, the longtime head of the powerful Shubert Organization who helped bring numerous works to Broadway, including "A Chorus Line," "Amadeus" and "Cats," has died. He was 84. Schoenfeld died of a heart attack early Tuesday at his...Tags: Music Theater, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Andrew Lloyd Webber, Death, Theater
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