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On Sunday: T.C. Boyle's basement, David Treuer and more
Jacket CopyA look at T.C. Boyle's papers that were in his basement but worth big money to the Ransom Center at the University of Texas.... -
John R. Hubbard dies at 92; USC president, historian and diplomat
John R. Hubbard, a historian and former U.S. ambassador to India who was president of USC in the 1970s, died Sunday at his Rancho Mirage home after a long illness, the university announced. The broad-shouldered and outspoken Texas native, widely known...Tags: Saudi Arabia, Fluor Corporation, Unrest, Conflicts and War, History, Political Fundraising
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Gov. Rick Perry's big donors fare well in Texas
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has powered his political career on the largesse of donors like Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons, who gave the governor $1.12 million in recent years.
And donors like Simmons have found the rewards to be mutual, reaping benefits...Tags: Finance, Rick Perry, George W. Bush, Companies and Corporations, Waste Management and Pollution Control
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Shel Hershorn dies at 82; photojournalist chronicled '60s tumult
Shel Hershorn, a photojournalist who documented the tumult of the 1960s and then dropped out to live a rustic lifestyle in northern New Mexico, died Sept. 17 at a nursing home in Espanola, N.M. He was 82.
Born in Denver on June 11, 1929, Herbert...Tags: John F. Kennedy, College Sports, Sports Illustrated, Jack Ruby, Newspaper and Magazine
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Nobel winner dies before receiving prize
Dr. Ralph M. Steinman was a creative and dogged researcher who spent years convincing a doubting scientific community that he had found cells that were key to the working of the immune system.
Diagnosed in 2007 with pancreatic cancer, which usually kills...Tags: Medical Research, Preventative Medicine, Immune System, Prostate Cancer, Vaccines
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Elizabeth Brumfiel dies at 66; feminist archaeologist
Elizabeth Brumfiel, a widely recognized scholar in the field of feminist archaeology who studied Aztec culture, examining not only the functional and economic significance of ancient relics but what scholars learned about changing gender roles and...Tags: Museums, Archaeology, Museums, Mexico, Field Museum of Natural History
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Virginia Fields dies at 58; scholar of early Mesoamerican art, archaeology at LACMA
Virginia M. Fields, a leading scholar of early Mesoamerican art and archaeology who joined the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's curatorial staff in 1989 and devoted 22 years to making the museum a vital center of Latin American culture — partly by...Tags: California State University, Northridge, Mexico, Minority Groups, Diabetes, University of California, Los Angeles
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Book Review: 'Fall Higher' by Dean Young
Special to the Los Angeles TimesFall Higher Dean Young Copper Canyon Press: 105 pp., $22 "All the new thinking is about loss," Robert Hass begins his 1979 poem "Meditation at Lagunitas." Structuralism had put poets in a bind by arguing that words are meaningless symbols assigned...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Health, Poetry, New York Observer, Heart Problems
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Nobel winner's father was acclaimed Scripps researcher, colleague
L.A. NOWNobel Prize and Bruce Beutler. Bruce Beutler, one of three winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine announced Monday, said his only regret is that his father, an acclaimed hematologist, didn’t live long enough to see him win the prize.... -
No DNA tests for Texas death row inmate, judge decides
Nation NowDeath row: Hank Skinner's attorneys had requested DNA testing of evidence untested before his trial in 1995, but a Texas judge said no; Skinner is now on death row.... -
Who's guilty, Casey Anthony or the jurors?
Opinion L.A.Casey Anthony jurors are guilty in the court of public opinion, says some.... -
Cancer screening: What could it hurt? A lot, actually
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
In 1984, Japan began screening the urine of 6-month-old infants for neuroblastoma, the most common type of solid tumor in young children. The test was simple and could show signs of cancer long before clinical...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Prostate Cancer, Sports, Breast Cancer, Health and Safety at School
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