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Nurse manages her pain and young cancer patients one song at a time
Barbara Britt has a song in her head, a campfire tune that she learned years ago.
I'm a little piece of tin.
Its silliness, she knew, would keep her upbeat for the appointment she had with James Lee, the 12-year-old with a tumor in his brain stem....Tags: Astrocytoma, Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Specialization, Biotechnology, Chemicals
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San Antonio schools to use scanner technology in student IDs
You can’t run in the hallways. Now you can’t hide in them, either. The Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, will embark on an experimental project next year to track thousands of students at two schools by putting...
Tags: YouTube, Science and Technology, American Civil Liberties Union, Etan Patz, Civil Rights
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Obama makes commencement speech in Joplin, Mo.
CHICAGO -- President Obama held up storm-ravaged Joplin, Mo., as a model for the power of cooperation in a commencement speech Monday night that hit on some of the themes of his campaign. Speaking to the Joplin High School class of 2012, Obama praised...
Tags: Joplin, Missouri Tornado (2011), Graduation, NATO Summit, Barack Obama, Teaching and Learning
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UCLA extends bidding for Japanese garden in Bel-Air
L.A. NOWA Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Thursday declined to grant an emergency request to block UCLA's sale of its Hannah Carter Japanese Garden in Bel-Air. But opponents of the sale say they plan to continue to press to have...... -
Scientists puzzled by rocks that ignited in O.C. woman's pocket
L.A. NOWThe case of an Orange County woman's cargo shorts igniting from rocks collected at San Onofre State Beach puzzled scientists who said that chemicals that would combust in that way aren't likely to be found on a beach.... -
Downtown sports traffic: Plan ahead for busy weekend
L.A. NOWTens of thousands of cycling, hockey and basketball fans will converge at Staples Center in a weekend packed with post-season games and the final stage of the 2012 Amgen Tour of California — back-to-back events that authorities are warning will... -
Carmen Trutanich's request for probe of D.A.'s office rejected
L.A. NOWThis post has been corrected. See the note below for details. The California attorney general's office announced Thursday that it plans to take no further action in response to Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich's call to investigate what he...... -
Their Mother's Day goal: redemption
Every parent knows what it's like to fail his or her child in some important way. We speak a hurtful word. We are absent at a critical moment, or we simply fail to hear what our children are telling us. The three moms I met this week at the Homegirl Café...
Tags: Mother's Day, Homelessness, Substance Abuse, Prisons, Gang Activity
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Video paints doomsday scenario for planned Westside subway extension
Pairing images of giant fireballs with students walking the corridors of Beverly Hills High School, a dramatic video released last week by the school district's parent-teacher council paints a doomsday scenario if the Westside subway extension is built...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Transportation, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Subway Transportation, Science and Technology
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Teen drivers who travel with friends at higher risk for fatal crash
WASHINGTON -- The chance of teenage drivers dying in a crash increases with every additional teenage passenger in the car, according to a new study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. But a survey by Consumer Reports also found that drivers ages 16...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Accidental Death, Consumers, Vehicles, Manufacturing and Engineering
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California agency ripped over disparities in autism spending
California lawmakers and advocates for children with autism assailed the state Department of Developmental Services during a hearing Monday over the deep racial and ethnic disparities in how it spends money on the disorder. "Families that are already the...
Tags: George Stevens Jr., Culture, Social Sciences, Behavioral Conditions, Arts and Culture
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Miramonte teachers speak at rally
L.A. NOWMore than 200 parents, students and former Miramonte teachers gathered in South Los Angeles on Thursday to call for the immediate reinstatement of the school’s staff, which was removed in its entirety from the campus in early February, a week......
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