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Market Watch: Persian cucumbers tastefully taking over
Ten years ago, Elizabeth Schneider, the doyenne of produce writers, called for "a cucumber revolution" in her definitive book, "Vegetables From Amaranth to Zucchini". Denouncing the standard American slicing varieties, she implored, "Refuse to buy pumped-...Tags: Cucumbers, Diseases and Illnesses, Whole Foods Market, Human Body, Israel
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'The Wake of Forgiveness': an excerpt
The blood had come hard from her, so much of it that, when Vaclav Skala awoke in wet bed linens to find her curled up against him on her side, moaning and glazed with sweat, rosary beads twisted around her clenched fingers, he smiled at the thought that...Tags: Agriculture, Infants, Human Body, Health and Medical Professionals, Human Interest
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Book review: 'The Lampshade' by Mark Jacobson
Los Angeles TimesLudwig Wittgenstein, one of the 20th century's most influential philosophers, famously remarked: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." Pirke Avot, the only Talmudic tractate to deal exclusively with ethical and moral questions,...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Judaism, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Body, Punishment
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A cadaver gets under her skin
We enter the gross anatomy lab at 8 a.m. and spend the next two-and-a-half hours palpating bodies, cutting through skin and subcutaneous fat, probing muscle layers and searching for nerves and blood vessels.
Before our first day, our anatomy professor...Tags: Human Body, Science, Harvard Medical School, Physiology, Movies
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The Find: Newport Beach fish lovers salute Bear Flag
Bear Flag Fish Co. is the seafood wonderland we all long for on idle summer days, a fish market-cum-restaurant where brilliant slabs of tuna glint like rubies and the spindrift of crashing waves hangs in the air. It's minimalism at its seafaring best &#...Tags: Seafood and Fishing Industry, Tacos, Sandwiches, Fishing, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Armadillos pass leprosy to humans, study finds
They're cute. They're often roadkill. Some gourmands say they're tasty, whether baked or barbecued.
Now Louisiana researchers have learned something else about nine-banded armadillos.
"A preponderance of evidence shows that people get leprosy from these...Tags: Baton Rouge, Tuberculosis, Diseases and Illnesses, Human Body, Allergies
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The Dekopon arrives in California
I still remember the first time I tasted the legendary fruit the Dekopon. Think of a huge mandarin, easy to peel and seedless, with firm flesh that melts in the mouth, an intense sweetness balanced by refreshing acidity, and a complex, lingering...Tags: Whole Foods Market, Diseases and Illnesses, Wrestling, Contracts, Companies and Corporations
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My Chemical Romance turns the page with 'Danger Days'
High in his ridgeline home, sitting on a porch that feels like a ledge, Gerard Way peered through cigarette smoke and the late-afternoon Pasadena haze as he searched his memory for the moment when his band, My Chemical Romance, shed its skin. "I think,"...Tags: Batman (fictional character), Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Dance, Alice Cooper, Music
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Book review: 'The Science of Kissing' by Sheril Kirshenbaum
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt's late at night and you're finishing a truly golden date. You drank Manhattans and discovered that you both geek out about B-horror films and the collected works of Philip K. Dick. To top it off, you can't stop staring into each other's eyes. When...Tags: Philip K Dick, Henry Miller, Human Body, Testosterone, Oxytocin (drug)
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