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Gulf oil spill: Obama names investigation panel
GreenspacePresident Obama named five panelists to a commission tasked with finding ways to avoid a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which killed 11 men and started the nation's worst oil spill. They will be led by a former Florida...... -
Dispersants play rerouting role in Gulf of Mexico oil spill
The oil dispersants being used in the Gulf of Mexico spill may help destroy the oil a little faster, but their primary purpose is to alter its destination so that the oil stays in the deep ocean rather than reaching the shore.
Scientists don't know...Tags: Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Education, Emergency Incidents, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Disasters
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Minimally invasive surgery great for patients, not so hot for surgeons
Booster ShotsMinimally invasive surgery, known formally as laparoscopic surgery, has proved a boon for patients over the last 20 years, minimizing hospital stays, speeding recovery and reducing the cosmetic consequences of operations. But new evidence suggests the... -
"Treme" creators David Simon and Eric Overmyer talk about the late David Mills
Show TrackerAt a press lunch today for HBO's upcoming series "Treme," executive producers David Simon and Eric Overmyer paid eloquent tribute to their colleague and friend, writer David Mills. A veteran writer for previous Simon series such as "The Wire," "The...... -
A heart-and-mind link
Healing an injured or poorly functioning heart requires attention to a patient's mental well-being as well as to his or her physical health -- so much so that in October, the American Heart Assn. recommended that doctors screen all heart patients for...Tags: Relief and Aid Organizations, Health, Surgery, Mental Health, Inflammation
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Going gluten-free -- for many reasons
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAt the Whole Foods Market in El Segundo, two women stand scanning a refrigerator case filled with packages of gluten-free food -- carrot cake, rice flour bread, scones, ginger cookies, pecan pie and chocolate chip muffins. Judy Beckett, a retired...Tags: Health, Vitamin Therapy, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Family, Biopsy
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Indispensable Old Media
OVER THE WEEKEND, at almost the same time that the world was informed that Google was vying to pay $1.65 billion for YouTube, a 2-year-old video-sharing website, famed Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was gunned down in Moscow. Politkovskaya...Tags: Politics, Terrorism, Murder, Political Corruption, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Death's strange spell
SUSAN MOELLER is the director of the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda at the University of Maryland and the author of "Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat."THE OFFICIAL VIDEO that aired on Iraqi state television of Saddam Hussein's execution and the surreptitiously taken cellphone images of the hanging have once again caused mainstream American media to publicly muse over whether their audiences can tolerate...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Death, Photography, Health and Safety at School, Abraham Lincoln
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Piercing black silence on immigration
Washington — IT WAS A SIGN. This city was uncharacteristically balmy last week, and L.A. was uncharacteristically frigid. Yet for some reason, it felt appropriate; although I had traveled almost 2,700 miles, it was for a conversation I should have...Tags: Minority Groups, Colleges and Universities, Politics, National or Ethnic Minorities, Democratic Party
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Starwood launching green hotel brand called "Element"
Starwood is launching a "green hotel brand" called Element, with the first property opening in July in Lexington, Mass., and 20 more hotels scheduled to open in the next year. The hotels are built with technology that saves water and cuts electric use,...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Education, Energy Saving, Hotels and Accommodations, Colleges and Universities
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Get out of Afghanistan, get into low-Earth orbit
Research is defined as a human activity based on intellectual investigation aimed at discovering, interpreting and revising human knowledge. None of that was provided by Paul Thornton in his recent Opinion Daily "Space program lunacy." What passes for...Tags: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Weather, Death, Tropical Weather, Research
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Dorothy Sterling, author of African American children's literature, dies at 95
Dorothy Sterling, a significant figure in 20th-century children's literature for her lucid, well- researched portrayals of historical African Americans written decades before multiculturalism became mainstream, died Dec. 1 at her home in Wellfleet, Mass....Tags: Minority Groups, NAACP, Biography (genre), Providence (Providence, Rhode Island), Social Issues
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