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TED pulls TEDxWestHollywood license over issue of "pseudoscience"
At the main TED conference a few weeks ago in Long Beach, the fifth and final one in that city, the organizers spent time on the opening day celebrating the remarkable influence and reach of this once-obscure technology and design conference. Among the...
Tags: Science and Technology
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Golden Globes 2013: Tough (and tired) crowd at Beverly Hilton
By the time Megan Fox, Ed Helms and Jessica Alba strode into the Beverly Hilton ballroom at 5:20 a.m., their captive audience of reporters and publicists seemed nearly comatose. Press check-in for the Golden Globes ceremony had begun more than an hour...
Tags: Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Golden Globe Awards, Megan Fox
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The middle class languishes as the super-rich thrive
The good news for the U.S. economy as we enter 2013 is that the election's over. The bad news is that the election's over. What's good about it is that both parties in Washington can shed their preoccupation with the campaign theatrics that dominated...
Tags: Class Conflict, Parties and Movements, Productivity, Joe Biden, Economy, Business and Finance
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Parents criticize officials after cheating allegations roil school
L.A. NOWLeaders of a parent organization at Short Avenue Elementary on Tuesday criticized the school’s former principal and the Los Angeles Unified School District in the wake of alleged cheating and mistakes in administering state standardized... -
ATF director to resign, agency sources say
The acting director of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is expected to step down because of a controversial gun-running investigation that allowed weapons to be sold to suspected agents of Mexican drug cartels, according...Tags: Mexico, Lawyers, Barack Obama, Laws, Crimes
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The stars align for kabbalah
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSecond of two parts When Philip Berg decided in the early 1970s to teach kabbalah to the masses, he predicted that orthodox rabbis would stone him and his wife, Karen. For a long time, that seemed a pompous overstatement. Few people had even heard of the...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Lawyers, Culture, Economy, Business and Finance, Sandra Bernhard
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'Les Miz' beats Ahmanson box-office marks set by 'Jersey Boys'
Culture MonsterThe recent run of "Les Miserables" at the Ahmanson Theatre set new box office records for average and single-show grosses. Like "God of Carnage," which this year set a record for a non-musical play, it reflects the impact of Center Theatre Group's new... -
Program offers rays of hope in an area on the edge
Words failed Roslyn Haywood-Broadnax, and that doesn't happen often. Her eyes softened and she pointed to the ceiling -- or, rather, through it, toward the heavens.
Her three oldest are grown and gone, one a mental health counselor, one a hospital...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Antonio Villaraigosa, Organized Crime, Scott Gold, Arts and Culture
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Autism: Kids put at risk
James Coman's son has an unusual skill. The 7-year-old, his father says, can swallow six pills at once.
Diagnosed with autism as a toddler, he had been placed on an intense regimen of supplements and medications aimed at treating the disorder. He was...Tags: Science, Corporate Crime, University of Virginia, Metal, Heart Attack
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Markups by 'body shops' inflate the public's cost
The Los Angeles Community College District had launched a $5.7-billion campaign to modernize its nine campuses, and district leaders wanted the world to know. They hired marketing consultant Joan Marshall to help spread the word.
She worked closely...Tags: Misdemeanors, Lawyers, Economy, Business and Finance, Public Employees, Employment Opportunities
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Industrial chemical OSR#1 used as autism treatment
An industrial chemical developed to help separate heavy metals from polluted soil and mining drainage is being sold as a dietary supplement by a luminary in the world of alternative autism treatments.
The supplement, called OSR#1, is described on the...Tags: Science, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Metal, YouTube, Crimes
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