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Pomona-Pitzer track athlete is in running for Rhodes Scholarship
Annie Lydens is accustomed to juggling a demanding academic schedule at Pomona College and her running career for Pomona-Pitzer with equally exceptional results. Lydens, a senior, has a 3.99 grade-point average while studying philosophy, politics and...
Tags: Kris Kristofferson, United Nations, Financial Aid, Hillary Clinton, U.S. Department of State
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Caltech tops list of world's universities
L.A. NOWThe California Institute of Technology once again tops the ranks of the world’s best research universities, while University of California campuses at Berkeley and Los Angeles maintained their top 20 positions despite massive state funding cuts to... -
Shinzo Abe, hawkish former Japanese leader, eyes return to power
World NowFormer Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was elected as head of the Liberal Democratic Party, a move that could pave the way for the hawkish politician to return as the nation's leader if elections are called this fall.... -
Caltech named best research university in the world -- again
L.A. NOWOnce again, the California Institute of Technology is ranked the best in the world. The Pasadena institution retained its ranking as the world’s best research university in the 2012-13 World University Rankings released this week by the Times Higher... -
Alexander Cockburn dies at 71; radical longtime columnist
Los Angeles Times Alexander Cockburn, the radical and acerbic journalist who had written longtime columns in both the conservative Wall Street Journal and the leftist outlet the Nation, died Friday in Germany. He was 71. The influential writer had...
Tags: Christopher Hitchens, Authors, The Wall Street Journal, Cancer, Central Intelligence Agency
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Review: Jim Holt's compelling 'Why Does the World Exist?'
-------------------- Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story Jim Holt Liveright: 310 pp., $27.95 -------------------- "How old is the Universe?" Kurt Vonnegut asked in his 1973 novel "Breakfast of Champions." "It is one half-second...
Tags: Fiction, Steven Weinberg, Religion and Belief, Authors, Cosmology
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At the Getty Villa, a lecture on Greek drinking rituals
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The Siren's Call: Cellular Situations
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCancer lends itself to the realms of myth. Siddhartha Mukherjee gave the disease some regal treatment in the title of his prize-winning book "The Emperor of All Maladies," but cancer's no emperor. It's a beast. Where actual mythological monsters are...Tags: Nick Owchar, Authors, Mouth, Cancer, Colleges and Universities
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Phillip Tobias dies at 86; South African expert on early man
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Phillip Tobias, a renowned South African paleoanthropologist and expert on early man and hominids, died Thursday. He was 86.
Tobias died in a Johannesburg hospital after a long illness, according to South Africa's...Tags: Science and Technology, Paleontology, Caves and Caverns, Tanzania, Genes and Chromosomes
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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 Florida, Colleges and Universities, Human Interest, The Washington Post, Wars and Interventions
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Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi on historic European visit
World NowMyanmar Democracy Europe: Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on a historic European visit.... -
Suu Kyi falls ill on first day of European tour [Video]
World NowOn the first day of a whirlwind trip through Europe, famed Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi fell ill, throwing up in the middle of a news conference in Switzerland....
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