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Newton R. Russell dies at 85; veteran California legislator
Newton R. Russell, a veteran state senator known as an expert on California's complex public pension system and a stickler for upholding legislative rules, died Saturday of lung cancer at his La CaƱada Flintridge home, his family said. He was 85. A...
Tags: Interior Policy, Health and Safety at Work, Elections, Pension and Welfare, Richard Nixon
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Angelina Jolie and me -- a family history of cancer
I didn’t realize until now that Angelina Jolie and I have something in common: cancer. Or at least risk factors for it. Jolie, of course, has made worldwide headlines with her dramatic op-ed Tuesday in the New York Times describing her decision to...
Tags: Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Angelina Jolie, Mastectomy
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Jonathan Fielding, the public's MD
If you've got your health, the cliche goes, you've got just about everything. If you've got public health duties, you're responsible for just about everything from mosquitoes (West Nile carriers) to hygiene (wash your hands for as long as it takes to sing...
Tags: Meningitis, Pharmaceuticals, Disease Prevention, Behavioral Conditions, Flu
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The Whitmore family will never grow out of this stage
Prolific character actor James Whitmore appeared in countless films ("The Asphalt Jungle," "The Shawshank Redemption") and TV series ("The Twilight Zone") in his six -decade career, earning Oscar nominations for 1949's "Battleground" and 1975's "Give...
Tags: James Whitmore, Daniela Ruah, Sons of Anarchy (tv program), The Shawshank Redemption (movie), Arts and Culture
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'Instant Recess' break to honor deceased public health leader
A few weeks after the death of public health leader Antronette Yancey, organizations around California and the nation will participate in an "Instant Recess" break Tuesday afternoon to honor her work. The Oakland-based Prevention Institute is asking...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Letters: A smoker's right to harm others?
Re "The right to dumb choices," Editorial, April 24 In opposing a proposal in New York City to raise the legal smoking age from 18 to 21, The Times claims that "a decision to smoke harms only the smoker." That's questionable. Decisions by motorists...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice
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Antronette Yancey dies at 55; advocate of short bursts of exercise
For Dr. Antronette K. Yancey, a UCLA public health professor, exercise could be fun and done in short bursts in the workplace, schools and even places of worship. Her campaign to urge people to incorporate physical activity into their daily lives led to...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Diseases and Illnesses, Duke University, Disease Prevention
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Carol Burnett talks family, and belts out the Tarzan yell
On Saturday afternoon at the L.A. Times Festival of Books, I was sitting cheek-by-jowl with hundreds of sweaty book lovers in USC's Bovard Auditorium. But for a moment I could have been in a New Jersey living room in 1975, watching "The Carol Burnett...
Tags: Authors, Arts and Culture, Festive Events, People (magazine), Tim Conway
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Victor Carranza dies at 77; 'Emerald King' of Colombia
Victor Carranza, known as the "Emerald King" of Colombia, who built a near monopoly in trade in the precious gems and survived at least two assassination attempts along the way, died of lung cancer Thursday at a Bogota hospital. He was 77. Officials...
Tags: Human Rights Watch, Prosecution, Human Rights, Politics, Corporate Crime
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PASSINGS: Bobbie Smith, Frank Thornton
Bobbie Smith Original member of Spinners R&B group Bobbie Smith, 76, a singer with the Spinners soul music group since the 1950s, died Saturday in Orlando, Fla., of complications from pneumonia and influenza. He had been diagnosed with lung cancer...
Tags: Flu, Entertainment, Television, Obituaries, Pneumonia
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PASSINGS: Malachi Throne
MALACHI THRONE Character actor was in 'It Takes a Thief' Malachi Throne, 84, a character actor who had a featured role as Robert Wagner's boss Noah Bain on the television spy series "It Takes a Thief" in the late 1960s, died Wednesday of lung cancer...
Tags: Criminals, Entertainment, Robert Wagner, Television, Celebrities
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Should smokers pay more for health insurance?
I’m one of those non-smoking California types who has grown “allergic” to smoking. Can’t stand to be around people who smoke, can’t stand the way they stink up the joint, can’t stand to look at an ashtray full of butts....
Tags: Quitting Smoking, Barack Obama, Insurance, Los Angeles Times Journalists, Richard Pan
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