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At Test Kitchen, the menu is in constant flux
The dimly lighted dining room pulses with gritty hip-hop and clanking silverware as diners eagerly await what's being constructed in a kitchen filled with tattooed chefs, steam and sharp focus. A bartender wearing blinged-out earrings swaggers over to a...Tags: Ceremonies, Pies and Tarts, Restaurants, Michelin Group, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Be slow my hurting heart: The pain of social rejection drives down heart rate
You've been dumped by a romantic interest you really liked. You've been passed over for a job by a boss you thought admired you. A group of friends is going out together, leaving you out of their plans. This kind of social rejection prompts your brain...Tags: Depression, Nervous System, Behavioral Conditions, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Science and Technology
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The new Club Med
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe last thing I expected to see when I arrived at Club Med's Turkoise resort in the British West Indies was a gray-haired guy balancing on a walker. Before I had a chance to blink twice, another gray-haired guy rolled by in a wheelchair. Was this the...Tags: Ceremonies, Television, Entertainment, Hotels and Accommodations, All Inclusive Vacations
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California a cornucopia of natural beauty products
Special to the Los Angeles TimesAs families sit down at the table Thursday to give thanks for a bountiful feast, we can also give thanks for the bounty of California, where the harvest is diverse and year-round. And — more thanks — many of California's abundant crops and...Tags: Ceremonies, Real Estate, Health Treatments, Dietary Supplements, Tangerine
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Scene & Heard: Sweet Honey in the Rock concert reception
Special to the Los Angeles TimesMembers of a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock were greeted with holiday wishes at a Champagne reception backstage after their Dec. 19 concert at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. Actress Alfre Woodard said if her heart could sing, "that is the sound...Tags: Ceremonies, Entertainment, Children, Israel, Concerts
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Emmy-nominated costume designers on dressing characters with success
Special to the Los Angeles TimesFrom the full-skirted polka-dot dresses of "I Love Lucy's" Lucy Ricardo to the cone bras and figure-hugging outfits worn by the women of " Mad Men," costumes have done as much as anything to make television memorable. In recognition of the part clothes...Tags: Showtime (tv network), Joseph Fiennes, Primetime Emmy Awards, Awards and Prizes, Target Brands, Inc.
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Scene & Heard: HollyRod Foundation's DesignCare '10 fundraiser
Special to the Los Angeles TimesHolly Robinson Peete and her husband, former NFL quarterback Rodney Peete, welcomed more than 500 guests to the historic Green Acres estate in Beverly Hills for DesignCare '10, a fundraiser for the HollyRod Foundation (www.hollyrod.org), which provides...Tags: Ceremonies, Cedric the Entertainer, Awards and Prizes, Wicked (musical), Sugar Ray Leonard
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'Remarkable Creatures' by Tracy Chevalier
Today, most people understand that animals can become extinct, whether as a consequence of a giant asteroid or because of our own pattern of habitat destruction, climate change and pollution that have endangered hundreds more. But just 200 years ago,...Tags: Science and Technology, Family, Jane Austen, Paleontology, England
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The evolution of religion
Today's topic: What do you think of the theory that religious belief and experience are wired through evolution?
Homo religious Point: Michael Shermer
Did humans evolve to be religious and believe in God? In the most general sense, yes, we did. Here'...Tags: University of California, Science and Technology, Anxiety, Natural Disasters, Disasters
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Mitch Miller dies at 99; musical innovator and host of 'Sing Along With Mitch'
Mitch Miller, who helped shape musical tastes in the 1950s and early '60s as the head of the popular music division at Columbia Records and hosted the hit "Sing Along With Mitch" TV show in the early '60s while becoming one of the era's most...Tags: Ceremonies, Crime, Law and Justice, Celebrities, William Miller, Public Employees
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Faith and Belief: 'The Evolution of God' by Robert Wright and 'The Case for God' by Karen Armstrong
The Evolution of God
Robert Wright
Little, Brown: 576 pp. $25.99
The Case for God
Karen Armstrong
Alfred A. Knopf: 432 pp., $27.95
Until the discovery of DNA's double helix by James Watson and Francis Crick, prehistory was entirely the province of...Tags: Science and Technology, History, Education, Karen Armstrong, Biotechnology Industry
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Oil spill stress starts to weigh on gulf residents
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterGRAND ISLE, LA. -- Ordinarily this time of year, Adam Trahan would be out on the Gulf of Mexico on a shrimp boat, trawling from South Pass to the Chandeleur Islands. Instead, last week he was trawling between the bar at Cisco's Hideaway on Oak Lane and...Tags: BP Plc, Hurricane Katrina (2005), Natural Disasters, Management Change, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010)
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