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Al Boeke dies at 88; 'father' of Northern California's Sea Ranch
Al Boeke, the developer-architect whose vision spawned Sea Ranch, the sprawling Northern California coastal enclave known for elegantly rustic homes built to harmonize with a breathtaking natural landscape, died Nov. 8 at his home there. He was 88 and had...Tags: Charles Moore, Liver Cancer, Arts and Culture, Diseases and Illnesses, Architecture
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Reading L.A.: Marc Reisner's 'Cadillac Desert'
Culture MonsterMarc Reisner's "Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water," the 11th title in our Reading L.A. series, is not, strictly speaking, a book about Los Angeles or its urban form. It is a book -- a monumental, sharply...... -
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Special to the Los Angeles TimesMaking Supper Safe Why We've Lost Trust in Our Food and How We Can Get It Back Ben Hewitt Rodale: 265 pp., $24.99 The statistics are shocking: "More than 200,000 Americans are sickened by food every day, and each year 325,000 of us will be...Tags: Politics, Companies and Corporations, Natural Resources, John Jacobs, New Year's Day
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Book review: 'The View from Lazy Point' by Carl Safina
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe View from Lazy Point A Natural Year in an Unnatural World Carl Safina Henry Holt: 416 pp., $30 "The View from Lazy Point" is a naturalist's notebook, a record of a year at Carl Safina's home on the Sound side of eastern Long Island, north of...Tags: Long Island, Ecosystems, Fishing, Aldo Leopold, Nature
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L.A. names school after Al Gore -- but will students be safe?
L.A. NOWL.A. school officials have named a school after Al Gore, making him the first vice president to receive such an honor. Yet there are concerns over the school -- not over Al Gore's name but because some critics fear the...... -
Reading L.A.: Richard G. Lillard on the growth machine and its discontents
Culture MonsterNew essay in Reading L.A. series by architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne, this one on the book Eden in Jeopardy by Richard G. Lillard, a book on architecture, the environment, ecology and growth in Los Angeles and Southern California.... -
Food books, a feast of ideas
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThere's a Calvinist streak marbling the fat of any good American eater: One hand giveth and the other taketh away. I should. I shouldn't. Pleasure and pain. I want it but I shouldn't have it. This is a good time to reflect on just how American our...Tags: Books and Magazines, Gay Pride Los Angeles, Science and Technology, Lower East Side, Agriculture
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Chemicals: Our champions, our killers
Ihave leukemia. Those must be among the most frightening words in the English language. My particular form of the disease, called acute myeloid leukemia, was diagnosed a few weeks ago. It was a shock but not a complete surprise. About a year ago, I was...Tags: Lawyers, Biotechnology, Death, Science and Technology, Justice System
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Reasons to shiver: New in paperback
"The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. III" edited by Philip Gourevitch (Picador) "Have you found any professional criticism of your work illuminating or helpful? Edmund Wilson, for example?" asks Julian Jebb, the guy sent by the Paris Review to interview...Tags: Crimes, Franz Kafka, Harold Pinter, Mamma Mia! (movie), Book
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Arne Naess, Norwegian philosopher, dies at 96
Arne Naess, a Norwegian philosopher who coined the term "deep ecology" to indicate that humans are no more important than other species, ecosystems or natural processes, died Jan. 12 in Oslo. He was 96.
Naess founded the deep ecology movement in 1973...Tags: Education, Politics, The Washington Post, Documentary (genre), Death
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John McPhee's new book gets personal
There's a fault line opening in John McPhee. After 28 books and countless essays, he is giving us, bit by bit, a more personal sense of who he is. In a recent, beautiful piece for the New Yorker, he combined an essay on pickerel with memories of his...Tags: Bill Bradley, Science and Technology, Science, Gaming, Book
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Artist Bruce Nauman skywrites over Pasadena
Culture MonsterDown on the ground, it was a Saturday morning pretty much like any other in the Arroyo Seco's Brookside Park, a stone's throw from Pasadena's Rose Bowl. Kids were playing soccer, vendors hawked ice cream, families were heading to the......
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