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School reading: James Prosek on Elizabeth Bishop
Jacket CopyJames Prosek was just 19 when his first book, 1996's "Trout: An Illustrated History," was published. It included original watercolors he'd painted of North American trout as well as the stories he'd learned about them. This fall, he turns his...... -
How to tackle childhood obesity?
Opinion L.A.In a recent editorial, the board came out against a proposal in San Francisco (which has since passed) to ban promotional toys that come with fast-food meals unless those meals meet nutritional requirements. This is a particularly ill-considered weapon... -
Paperback Writers: James Boswell's 'London Journal 1762-1763'; Michael J. Arlen's 'Exiles' [Updated]
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe handwritten pages of James Boswell's " London Journal 1762-1763" languished forgotten in a trunk in Scotland before being brought to light in the middle of the last century and issued under the auspices of Yale University. This event, together with...Tags: Television, Biography (genre), Behavioral Conditions, Entertainment, John Gilbert
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Brian Marsden dies at 73; astronomer who tracked comets and asteroids
Astronomer Brian G. Marsden, a comet and asteroid tracker who stood sentinel to protect the Earth from collisions with interplanetary rocks and other remnants of the solar system's creation, died Thursday of cancer at Lahey Clinic Medical Center in...Tags: Disasters, Health, Alan Hale Sr., University of Oxford, Colleges and Universities
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John B. Fenn dies at 93; shared Nobel Prize in chemistry
Chemist John B. Fenn, who shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in chemistry for work that made possible the rapid analysis of the structure of proteins and other biomolecules through mass spectrometry, died Friday in Richmond, Va. He was 93 and died of...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Chemistry, Awards and Prizes, Judges, Companies and Corporations
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PASSINGS: Glenn Shadix, Lucius Walker, LeRoy A. Beavers Jr., Mike Edwards, Larry Ashmead, Corneille
Glenn Shadix
Character actor worked with Tim Burton
Glenn Shadix, 58, a character actor best remembered for his portrayal of the portly, pretentious interior designer Otho in director Tim Burton's 1988 ghost comedy "Beetlejuice," died Tuesday at his...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Tim Burton, Public Employees, Minority Groups, Gertrude Stein
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Notes on a Year: Mark Swed on classical music
"In the Middle Ages," Sara Maitland writes in her brilliant "A Book of Silence," "Christian scholastics argued that the devil's basic strategy was to bring human beings to a point where they are never alone with their God, nor ever attentively face to...Tags: High Blood Pressure, Environmental Pollution, Heart Disease, Internists, Simon Cowell
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Alfred E. Kahn dies at 93; promoted airline deregulation
Associated PressAlfred E. Kahn, who presided over the historic deregulation of the U.S. airline industry during President Carter's administration, paving the way for JetBlue and other low-cost carriers, died Monday. He was 93. Kahn, an economics professor at Cornell...Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Litigation and Regulation, Transportation, Justice System, Jimmy Carter
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Samuel P. King dies at 94; longtime federal judge in Hawaii
Samuel P. King, a federal judge who co-wrote an essay that led to major reform of one of the nation's richest charities, an educational trust founded by the estate of a Hawaiian princess, has died. He was 94.
King died Dec. 7 in a Honolulu hospital...Tags: Health, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Richard Nixon, Armed Forces, Judges
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Eleven cities hit new lows in home prices in December [Updated]
Money & CompanyHome prices in the nation's largest metropolitan regions continued their descent in December. The widely followed Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Index, which tracks the real estate market in 20 major U.S. cities, showed that prices dropped 2.4% in... -
Book reviews: 'Preaching With Sacred Fire' and 'The Anthology of Rap'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesPreaching With Sacred Fire An Anthology of African American Sermons, 1750 to the Present Edited by Martha Simmons and Frank A. Thomas W.W. Norton: 976 pp., $45 The Anthology of Rap Edited by Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois Yale University Press:...Tags: Poetry, History, Jesse Jackson, Minority Groups, Malcolm X
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PASSINGS: Barbara L. Packer
Barbara L. Packer, 63, a retired UCLA English professor who specialized in 19th century American literature and was recognized as an authority on Ralph Waldo Emerson, died Dec. 16 at her Los Angeles home, according to the university's English department....Tags: Book, Education, Colleges and Universities, Harold Bloom, Arts and Culture
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