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Syrian opposition group leader says he'll resign to stem rifts
World NowBurhan Ghalioun, the head of Syria's main government-opposition alliance, announced that he would resign after members accused him of "political and organizational failure."... -
Ernest Callenbach dies at 83; wrote environmental novel 'Ecotopia'
Ernest "Chick" Callenbach, a film scholar and environmentalist who created a cult favorite in "Ecotopia," a 1975 novel that predicted with uncanny accuracy a world where recycling is commonplace, food is locally grown and energy comes from the sun, died...Tags: Conservation, Ralph Nader, Science and Technology, Ecosystems, Book
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Reviving the French contemporary art scene
PARIS —When Théo Mercier talks about his work — sculptures with tribal masks sticking out their tongues or flora sprouting around fleshy pink, bulbous posteriors — he does it with a straight face. His sculpture, "The Loner," is "a kind...
Tags: Fine Artists, Arts, France, Paris (France), Museum of Modern Art
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Market Watch: Farm brings every muscat imaginable
Special to the Los Angeles TimesOne of the rarest but greatest pleasures of farmers markets is encountering passionate collectors who sell a wide range of rare fruit varieties normally grown only at specialty sites such as germplasm repositories and agricultural experiment stations....Tags: Grapes, Dining and Drinking, England, University of California, Europe
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PASSINGS: Billy Costello
Billy Costello
Former WBC light welterweight boxing champ
Billy Costello, 55, a former WBC light welterweight boxing champion who won his first 30 professional fights, died of lung cancer Wednesday at a hospital in his hometown of Kingston, N.Y., said...Tags: Political Corruption, Egypt, Awards and Prizes, Tourism and Leisure, UNESCO
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Review: Juan Gabriel Vásquez's 'The Secret History of Costaguana'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Secret History of Costaguana A Novel Juan Gabriel Vásquez Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean Riverhead: 287 pp., $26.95 "The Secret History of Costaguana" is an intricately detailed, audacious reframing of "Nostromo," the classic 1904...Tags: Crimes, Politics, Joseph Conrad, History (tv network), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Baruj Benacerraf dies at 90; Nobelist made key discoveries about immune system
Dr. Baruj Benacerraf, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his pioneering work explaining why some people are able to fight off infections and tumors while others are not, died Tuesday at his Boston home. He was 90.
The cause was...Tags: U.S. Army, Venezuela, Science and Technology, Paris (France), Guinea
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Poet Samuel Menashe has died
Jacket CopyPoet Samuel Menashe died in New York Monday at the age of 85.... -
PASSINGS: Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, Elaine Stewart
Christiane Desroches Noblecourt
Pioneering Egyptologist saved antiquities from Aswan flooding
Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, 97, a pioneering French Egyptologist who helped salvage Nubia's vaunted antiquities from flooding caused by the construction...Tags: Obituaries, Egypt, Tourism and Leisure, Monuments and Heritage Sites, UNESCO
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PASSINGS: Margaret Tyzack
Margaret Tyzack
British actress on stage, screen and television
Margaret Tyzack, 79, a British actress perhaps best known to American audiences for her roles in the acclaimed BBC television series "The Forsyte Saga" and "I, Claudius," died Saturday in...Tags: Political Corruption, Egypt, Peter Shaffer, Awards and Prizes, Tourism and Leisure
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UAE: Arrests among apparent precautions to keep a lid on discontent
Babylon & BeyondFive activists are in detention and under investigation for posing a threat to state security as the broad crackdown on dissidents in the UAE continues. It's long been assumed that the authoritarian United Arab Emirates' oil riches would protect it...... -
UAE: Human rights officials condemn government crackdown
Babylon & BeyondHuman rights advocates decried what they called a “crackdown on civil society” in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday after authorities replaced the leadership of the country's teachers association, a well-established group that had called for...
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