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Websites that help you plan your travel
Special to the Los Angeles TimesFrom finding cheaper flights to scoring last-minute lift tickets, here are some websites that will help ease you on down the road (or slopes). http://www.dohop.com This airfare, hotel and rental-car search engine, based in Reykjavik, Iceland, was...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Vehicles, Car Engine Repair, Hotels and Accommodations, Passenger Cars
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Ice-covered volcanoes may answer climate change questions
Ice-covered volcanoes like the one in Iceland that brought European air traffic to a standstill are the center of an emerging branch of volcano science that seeks to answer important questions about climate change.
Scientists believe the rocks created...Tags: Glaciers, Landforms, Weather, Ecosystems, Disasters and Accidents
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In the long run, all that ash can be a good thing
Volcano ash can wreck jet engines, poison freshwater lakes and damage lungs. But it helps fertilize oceans, volcano researchers and marine chemists say.
"The ocean is gonna be happier" because of the Iceland eruption, said Ken Johnson, senior scientist...Tags: Landforms, Disasters and Accidents, Global Warming, Marine Science, Ken Johnson
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Japan 'holds they key' to progress at International Whaling Commission meeting, expert says
L.A. UnleashedTOKYO â Nations will next week consider whether to sanction commercial whale hunts for the first time in a quarter-century, a compromise to coax Japan into ending an annual cull of hundreds of the sea mammals in a sanctuary in...... -
International Whaling Commission meeting kicks off in Morocco
L.A. UnleashedAGADIR, Morocco â The International Whaling Commission began its most important meeting in decades debating whether to scrap an ineffective 25-year ban on commercial hunting and instead allow for limited whaling under a more enforceable regime. Though... -
'The Bachelorette': Booze, boys and hot molten lava
Show TrackerMonday on "The Bachelorette"⦠Kasey shows Ali his tattoo! I'm so excited, but I'm so, so scared. My friend Alex suggests that he deserves his own drinking game -- a shot every time Kasey uses the words "protect" and "guard"...... -
Faith and Belief: Richard Dawkins evolves his arguments
Richard Dawkins, best known as the author of "The Selfish Gene" (1976) and "The God Delusion" (2006), is at the Atheist Alliance International Convention in Burbank to discuss his new book, "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution" (Free...Tags: Politics, Freedom of the Press, Death, Culture, Animals
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Chasing the king of chess
Like a lot of kids in the summer of 1972, I was riveted by a strange spectacle unfolding in Iceland: a chess match between Soviet grandmaster Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer, the mercurial young American.
The games weren't televised -- Fischer...Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Politics, Nazi Party, World War II (1939-1945)
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The French detection
Lately, English-language publishers have developed an unfortunate habit with crime fiction in translation: Instead of starting at the very beginning of a series -- as Pantheon did in bringing out the 10-book "Story of Crime" opus by Swedes Maj Sjowall and...Tags: Death, Book, Stranger Than Fiction, Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice
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Roam Iceland's countryside and savor the sveit life
Special to The TimesI'M lying slack-jawed on a plank of hot wood, supine and defenseless over a gaping hole in the Earth's crust. Magma flows about a mile below me; above me, a drop of water condenses on the ceiling of a dimly illuminated steam room in the Myvatn Nature...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Building Material, Economy, Business and Finance, Downstream Oil and Gas Activities, Vehicles
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Genome scans go deep into your DNA
Special to The TimesMY MATERNAL grandmother had Alzheimer's disease. Before she died, she forgot our names, our faces and, eventually, how to speak and think.But my grandfather's heartbreak was the most painful to witness. I remember watching the two of them on the sofa...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Diseases and Illnesses, Health Organizations, Cancer, Robert Green
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