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Architect Robert Venturi slams planned Barnes Foundation move
Culture MonsterRobert Venturi, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect and lifelong resident of Philadelphia, has written a stinging letter in opposition to a controversial plan to dismantle the suburban Barnes Foundation and relocate its unparalleled collection of... -
Little swagger in plans for Bush presidential library
Culture MonsterGeorge W. Bush was a lightning rod of a politician. His presidential library is meant to be anything but. Architectural plans released today for the $250-million, 225,000-square-foot George W. Bush Presidential Center, to be built at Southern Methodist... -
Gene therapy strengthens monkeys' muscles, may eventually work for human diseases
Booster ShotsInjecting a gene into thigh muscles of a monkey's leg greatly increased muscle mass and strength, a finding that could have potential application in a variety of human diseases that involve muscular weakening, researchers reported this week in the new....... -
Criminal behavior may be hard-wired in the brain, researchers find
Booster ShotsAre some people born criminals? Increasing evidence from neuroscience suggests that many aspects of antisocial behavior can be traced to dysfunctional brains. For instance, brain scans of prisoners suggest the circuitry involved in fear conditioning has... -
The future of media is ... Ashton Kutcher?
L.A. Times Tech BlogAt the Supernova conference in San Francisco, people looking for the future of media found it in an unlikely source: Twitter king Ashton Kutcher.... -
Cooper-Hewitt awards go to designers of High Line, birding center and designer shops
L.A. at HomeThe Smithsonianâs Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Thursday announced the winners of its annual design awards â this year recognizing people and firms that are âcommitted to shaping how we live through design,â said the museum... -
The lure of writers' houses
Jacket CopyThe website M + E -- run by author Emma Straub and her husband, Michael Fusco -- is selling a new series of four literary posters, each with an illustration of a writer's home (with address). The illustrations by Aislinn...... -
PASSINGS: Morrie Yohai
MORRIE YOHAI
Creator of snack
Cheez Doodles
Morrie Yohai, 90, the creator of the crunchy, finger-staining orange snack called Cheez Doodles, died of cancer July 27 at his home in Kings Point, N.Y.
Yohai developed the snack in the 1950s for Old...Tags: Companies and Corporations, New York Institute of Technology, Long Island, Education, World War II (1939-1945)
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The mind unchecked: Is a toddler's lack of self-control key to early learning?
Booster ShotsAnyone who's seen a young toddler "at work" can tell that her learning style is a study in chaos. She moves from banging pots and pans to tormenting the cat to demanding food to bursting into tears when she can't...... -
PASSINGS: Bob Breitbard, Moshe Greenberg
Bob Breitbard
Owner of San Diego sports teams
Bob Breitbard, 91, a key player in San Diego sports for decades who brought the NBA to the city as owner of the expansion San Diego Rockets, died early Monday.
Breitbard died of natural causes at an...Tags: Israel, Crime, Law and Justice, Sports, Crimes, Bible
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Ralph F. Hirschmann dies at 87; pioneering chemist
Ralph F. Hirschmann, the leader of one of two teams that first broke through the seemingly unbreachable wall between chemistry and biology by synthesizing an enzyme -- a key component of life -- in the laboratory, died June 20 at his home in Lansdale, Pa....Tags: Prostate Cancer, Obituaries, Retirement, Dialysis, Career and Workplace
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Man awaiting trial in UC Riverside professorâs death dies in jail
L.A. NOWA Long Beach construction worker awaiting trial in the death of a UC Riverside professor last year died in his jail cell on Christmas Day, authorities said today. A guard on a security walk found Marlon Martinez, 22, lying in......
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