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Immigration: A wider better welcome mat
As an immigrant and an engineer, I know the magnetic pull that the United States exerts on anyone who dreams of a career in science. From the time I watched NASA technicians on television during the first lunar landing in 1969, I resolved to get the...
Tags: Hybrid Vehicles, University of California, Irvine, Personal Data Collection, DREAM Act, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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PASSINGS: Dallas Willard, Jack Butler, Fredrick McKissack
Dallas Willard Influential Christian philosopher taught at USC for 47 years Dallas Willard, 77, an influential Christian philosopher who taught at USC for 47 years and chaired the philosophy department in the early 1980s, died Wednesday in Woodland...
Tags: Tuskegee Airmen, Family, Philosophy, Baylor University , Pittsburgh Steelers
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Everyone on Earth is related to everyone else, DNA shows
The history of Europe is written in its people's DNA. The Huns and the Slavs made incursions into Eastern Europe about 1,500 years ago. Migrants moved from Ireland to England in recent centuries. Populations in Italy and Spain have been comparatively...
Tags: Africa, University of Chicago, Biotechnology Industry, University of California, Davis, Science and Technology
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A better way to track a bomber
The mayhem in Boston the week of April 15 was a reminder of how an American city can be paralyzed by a homemade bomb. The same kinds of improvised explosive devices that menaced U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan can easily be deployed by freelance...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Bombings, Crime, Law and Justice, FBI, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Wide search expected in hunt for next UC president
With no obvious inside candidate to be the next president of the University of California system, experts predict a wide search that will concentrate on similar university systems elsewhere but could also stretch beyond academia. Whoever replaces Mark...
Tags: Jerry Brown, University of California, Berkeley, Protest, Elections, University of California, Riverside
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UC expected to launch wide search for new president
Mark Yudof likes to point out that he was the first real outsider in more than a century chosen to run the sprawling University of California system. And he often jokes that, as a result of his leadership, it is likely to take a hundred years more...
Tags: Jerry Brown, University of California, Berkeley, University of Oklahoma, Purdue University, Protest
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MOCA's Deitch to New York Post: LACMA takeover still an option
Is Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art all-in when it comes to its own independence? The question arises from a recent comment by museum director Jeffrey Deitch in the New York Post. MOCA this week announced the launch of "MOCA Independence,...
Tags: University of Florida, Elections, Arts and Culture, Museums, Eli Broad
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Cal State Long Beach president finalist for LSU post
L.A. NOWCal State Long Beach President F. King Alexander has been recommended to become the next president of Louisiana State University, Long Beach officials announced Tuesday. A presidential search committee presented the recommendation this week to the LSU... -
The best job inquiry letter ever: Eudora Welty to the New Yorker
Eighty years ago Friday, young Eudora Welty sent a letter to the New Yorker seeking employment. This was four decades before she would win the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "The Optimist's Daughter" and five decades before "The Collected Works of Eudora...
Tags: Dennis Hopper, Fiction, Radio Industry, England, Social Media
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Daum: Online's 'nasty effect'
Finally! Scientific research backs up my perennial gripe about the soul-killing, society-destroying effects of online comments. A study published last month on the website of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (which does not allow comments)...
Tags: Science and Technology, Jesus Sanchez
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Film, TV violence is an intensely sensitive subject for some
Years after she first saw "The Passion of the Christ," Lori Pearson still feels queasy when she recalls the brutally graphic movie about the final hours of Jesus' life. "After I left the theater I remember feeling physically uncomfortable," said...
Tags: Movies, Audrey Hepburn, Sylvester Stallone, Arts and Culture, The Walking Dead (tv program)
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Deborah Landis, ever the advocate for costume designers
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticDesigning costumes so ingrained in popular culture that they still inspire Halloween disguises 30 years after they were created — Michael Jackson's "Thriller" jacket, Indiana Jones' signature outback slouch look and the unforgettable "College"...Tags: Movies, Audrey Hepburn, Arts and Culture, University of California, Los Angeles, John Landis
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