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Don't underestimate your willpower
Every year about this time, I write a list of New Year's resolutions. It's the usual stuff: Work out three times a week, cut back on coffee and alcohol, floss daily, relearn Spanish, watch less television, etc. I then put the list in the drawer of my...
Tags: Science and Technology, Stanford University, Psychologists, Education, Colleges and Universities
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PASSINGS: Ned Wertimer
Ned Wertimer, 89, an actor who played Ralph the doorman on all 11 seasons of the CBS sitcom "The Jeffersons," died Jan. 2 at a Valley Village nursing home of complications from a fall at his Burbank home in November, said his manager, Brad Lemack....
Tags: The Mary Tyler Moore Show (tv program), World War II (1939-1945)
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NFL and Wharton School offer leadership course for prep athletes
Varsity Times InsiderThe NFL-Wharton Prep Leadership Program for high school athletes entering their senior year will run from June 24-26 at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in Philadelphia, and all expenses except for travel will be taken care of if you're....... -
Welcome to lethal living, American-style
It would be silly to try to reduce the American character -- if there even is such a thing -- to a single graph. But the one pictured above, taken from a report released Wednesday by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, does a...
Tags: High Blood Pressure, Death, Japan, Hugo Chavez, Demographics
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UCLA and USC tie in national non-athletic ranking
L.A. NOWIt’s a tie! Crosstown rivals UCLA and USC are on the very same berth in the latest rankings of national universities by U.S. News & World Report.... -
Arlen Specter dies at 82; longtime senator was a political maverick
WASHINGTON — Arlen Specter, who in 30 years representing Pennsylvania in the Senate offended Republicans and Democrats in almost equal measure with maverick votes and a frank cockiness that finally ended his career in politics, died Sunday at his...
Tags: Lawyers, Parties and Movements, Radio, Entertainment, Joe Sestak
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Eugene Genovese dies at 82; leftist historian turned conservative
Eugene D. Genovese became one of the most notorious radical intellectuals in the country in 1965 when he addressed an all-night teach-in at Rutgers University on the Vietnam War. "I do not fear or regret the impending Viet Cong victory. I welcome it,"...
Tags: Christopher Hitchens, Richard Nixon, Christianity, University of California, Berkeley, College of William and Mary
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David Stern, iron-fisted NBA commissioner, to step down
If David Stern ruled the NBA with an iron fist, he cushioned the blows by transforming a league that couldn't get its championship final live on national TV in the early 1980s into a powerful marketing machine that made players and owners incredibly...
Tags: Glen Taylor, Chris Paul, Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Times Columnists, Memphis Grizzlies
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Fighting diseases with genetic therapy
Genes make us who we are — in sickness and in health. We get our genetic makeup from our parents, of course, but in the future, we might be getting genes from our doctors too. Imagine your doctor promising to cure your cancer or heart disease by...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Arteriosclerotic Vascular Disease, Chemotherapy, Genes and Chromosomes, Genetic Engineering
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R. Duncan Luce dies at 87; UC Irvine mathematical psychologist
R. Duncan Luce, a UC Irvine mathematical psychologist who received the National Medal of Science in 2005 for his pioneering scholarship in behavioral sciences, died Aug. 11 at his home in Irvine after a brief illness, the university announced. He was 87....
Tags: Culture, Mathematics, Columbia University, Medical Specialization, Psychology
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UC Berkeley joins online education platform of Harvard and MIT
L.A. NOWUC Berkeley announced Tuesday that it is joining the new online education platform founded by Harvard and MIT that offers free but not-for-credit courses to a worldwide audience. The addition of UC Berkeley will give the “edX” online effort... -
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LA Times MagazineTom Schnabel and Jordan Peimer riff on world music, audience pleasers...and what doesn't sell in L.A....
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