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Scientists use satellite to track superflares on sun-like stars
In case zombies, alien attacks and other unlikely threats aren’t enough to keep your overactive imagination busy, scientists in this week’s edition of the journal Nature are reporting on a real-life monster event: superflares, which are like...
Tags: Science and Technology, Solar Storms (2012)
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TSA screeners allegedly let drug couriers through LAX for cash
The man with eight pounds of methamphetamine in his carry-on bag stood in the snaking security line at Los Angeles International Airport's Terminal 4, inching toward the checkpoint, when a TSA screener approached.
But it wasn't to stop the contraband,...Tags: Methamphetamine (drug), Lawyers, Bribery, Justice System, Los Angeles International Airport
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Healthcare: The testing glut
In case you missed it, a recommendation came out last month that physicians cut back on using 45 common tests and treatments. In addition, patients were advised to question doctors who recommend such things as antibiotics for mild sinusitis, CT scans...
Tags: Radiology, Colonoscopy, Medical Procedures and Tests, General Practitioners, Health
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TSA apology? Two elderly women were screened improperly
Nation NowTwo elderly women were not screened properly, the TSA acknowledges, but they weren't strip-searched. The women had said they were strip-searched when traveling through Kennedy Airport in November.... -
Byron Donzis dies at 79; wide-ranging inventor
In 1978, Byron Donzis walked into a Houston hospital looking for Dan Pastorini, the Houston Oilers' prized quarterback who was laid up with three broken ribs from a recent game. Donzis was wearing a trench coat and carrying a large bag. He was accompanied...Tags: Invention and Innovation, Litigation, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health, Trials
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Herbert Hauptman dies at 94; won Nobel Prize in chemistry
Herbert Hauptman, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1985 for work uncovering the structure of molecules that accelerated medical research and led to the development of new drugs, has died. He was 94.
His death Sunday in Buffalo, N.Y., was announced...Tags: Documentary (genre), Chemicals, Columbia University, Science, Awards and Prizes
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On Location: Prop house carves out unusual niche
Company TownSeveral prop houses in Los Angeles County have been killed off in the last decade by the flight of production from Southern California to cheaper locales. But one local business has managed to survive by catering to Hollywood’s morbid obsession with... -
Behind the scenes at LAX
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt's a Thursday evening, and the landing lights of incoming LAX flights glow like torches from Westchester to the San Gabriels. Torch one, 200 lives suspended in air. Torch two, 500. Torch three, 350 awaiting their return to loved ones, bosses, business...Tags: Emergency Incidents, American Airlines, Inc., September 11, 2001 Attacks, Tourism and Leisure, Los Angeles International Airport
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Airports: Are we any safer?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOn May 1, 1961, Inez Harlow flew into the history books. The 23-year-old flight attendant had been suspicious of the slim passenger from the moment he boarded the National Airlines Convair CV-440 in Miami. "He had dark glasses on, his collar up,...Tags: Crimes, Emergency Incidents, Bombings, Ralph Nader, Aircraft Hijacking
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U.S. aviation security timeline
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterHere are some significant events and policies in the history of U.S. aviation security: 1955 A United Airlines plane explodes after takeoff in Denver, killing all 44 aboard. Investigators blame Jack Graham for placing a bomb in his mother's luggage,...Tags: Emergency Incidents, U.S. Navy, World Airways Incorporated, Athens (Greece), Video Supplies and Services
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Angels right fielder Torii Hunter knocked out of game after crashing into wall [Updated]
The Fabulous ForumAngels right fielder Torii Hunter was pulled from Wednesday night's game against the Florida Marlins in the bottom of the fifth inning after he crashed into the Sun Life Stadium wall to make a superb leaping catch of Gaby Sanchez's...... -
About (Late) Last Night: Anderson Cooper praises Kim Kardashian for silencing butt skeptics [Video]
Show TrackerAnderson Cooper is glad Kim Kardashian proved her butt is real....
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