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The story of gin: A spirited interview
As we roll into the final holiday parties of the year, spirits are high -- and flowing. “The Book of Gin” by Richard Barnett traces the history of gin, which was once believed to prevent plague, ease the pains of childbirth and treat a lack of...
Tags: Charles Dickens, Organized Crime, Customs and Tradition, Arts and Culture, Holidays
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Russia's Putin lives like a 'galley slave' with jets, yachts, limos, report says
World NowRussian President Vladimir Putin once lamented that he works "like a galley slave" to improve the life of his countrymen. But according to a report compiled by two prominent opposition politicians, the Russian leader more often toils in the opulence of... -
Murray Seeger dies at 82; L.A. Times reporter led Moscow bureau
Murray Seeger, a Los Angeles Times foreign correspondant who served as Moscow bureau chief in the early 1970s and was later director of information for the AFL-CIO, has died. He was 82.
Seeger, who lived in Silver Spring, Md., died of pneumonia Monday in...Tags: Media Industry, Entertainment, Journalism, Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland), AFL-CIO
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Taking a nostalgic ride on the world's oldest roller coasters
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterReporting from Lakemont Park in Altoona, Pa.-- My current travels across the great American roller-coaster belt will put me aboard five of the oldest operating coasters in the world, including the very oldest at little Lakemont Park here in Altoona....Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Amusement and Theme Parks, Allentown, Animals, Brooklyn (New York City)
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Beet poetry
My paternal bloodline brims with soup: barley stews studded with black mushrooms and opaque as porridge; the thin tomato broth of our Polish Christmas Eve vigil, swimming with dumplings no bigger than a bird's eye; and the plain, milky, peasant...Tags: Onions, Potatoes, Sour Cream, Borscht, Cabbage
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Music review: Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica take a spiritual plunge [updated]
Culture MonsterâI love beautiful women,â Gidon Kremer wrote in 1995 at the end of his memoir âSplinters of a Childhood.â âObviously I shall have a lot of unpleasantness because of this.â Still the Latvian violinist -- who appeared with his chamber...... -
Firefighters rescue deer stranded on Baltic Sea ice floe
L.A. UnleashedWARSAW, Poland -- Polish firefighters dodged treacherous sheets of ice in a risky after-dark rescue of a terrified deer stranded on a floe in the Baltic Sea, a spokesman said Wednesday. The rescue team faced serious hazards navigating among the...... -
A Primeval Tide of Toxins
Times Staff WriterThe fireweed began each spring as tufts of hairy growth and spread across the seafloor fast enough to cover a football field in an hour. When fishermen touched it, their skin broke out in searing welts. Their lips blistered and peeled. Their eyes...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Shrimp, Health and Safety at Work, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Environmental Pollution
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Gorbachevs heir
One year ago this month I found myself in the unusual position of hosting lunch for Mikhail Gorbachev. It was a work meeting at the L.A. Times, not some kind of rubber-chicken tribute (the former Soviet president was in town to talk up his Green Cross...Tags: Germany, Movies, Entertainment, Berlin (Germany), Mikhail S Gorbachev
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Is NATO reaching too far east?
Today's question: Did the U.S. overplay its hand in Eastern Europe when Russia was weak and reeling from the collapse of the Soviet Union? Previously, Moynihan and Meier discussed the extent to which Russia wants to exert control over former Soviet...Tags: Upper West Side, George H.W. Bush, Kiev (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine), Government, World War II (1939-1945)
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PASSINGS
Arnold Meri Genocide trial subject Arnold Meri, 89, a decorated Red Army veteran charged with genocide for deporting hundreds of his Estonian countrymen to Siberia in 1949, died Friday at his home in Tallinn, Estonia. In 2007, Estonian prosecutors...Tags: University of New Mexico, Crime, Law and Justice, Jeff Bingaman, Massacres, Extradition
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Dreams of an endless summer
By Richard Rayner
Off the southwest coast of Finland are more than 80,000 small islands left by the retreating ice 10,000 years ago. Some of the islands are mere rocks, washed by the cool waters of the Baltic, but many are covered in pine and fir trees...Tags: Depression, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mystery (genre), Weather Reports, History
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