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Kroger turns spoiled food into electricity; how do you reduce waste?
As supermarkets try to figure out how to cut down on waste and experiment with alternative forms of energy, Kroger Co. says it's doing both simultaneously by turning landfill-bound organic matter into electricity that powers its stores, The Times'...
Tags: Kroger Company, Natural Resources Defense Council, Breads, Kentucky Fried Chicken
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For the record
Healthcare law: An article in the May 11 Section A about President Obama's efforts to get Americans to enroll in health insurance said that a healthcare campaign by the California Foundation had devoted more than $200 million to a Spanish-language media...Tags: Politics, Elections, Barack Obama, O.J. Simpson, Jerry Brown
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Alarm among activists after Malaysia kills nearly 100,000 monkeys
Tourists adore them. Homeowners bemoan them. And the Malaysian government has killed them –- by the tens of thousands. They are macaca fascicularis, mischievous monkeys with unusually long tails that give them their common name: long-tailed...
Tags: Endangered Species, Politics, World Wildlife Fund, Malaysia, Conservation
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A hair-loss solution that goes beyond wigs and toupees
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIt almost goes without saying that hair is huge business in Hollywood. Healthy, beautifully coiffed and colored locks are a key calling card for those in the spotlight. Exhibit A: Jennifer Aniston's headline-generating honey-blond shag, hyped year after...Tags: Dermatologists, Business, Science and Technology, Chemotherapy, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Grow your own plantains, tropical cousin of the banana
Fernando Larios eyes the stand of plantains running along one side of the Francis Avenue Community Garden in Koreatown. A large cluster of fruit, just out of arm’s reach, is almost ready. “It’ll be two more months,” says Larios,...
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Mickey Rose dies at 77; Woody Allen collaborator and TV writer
Mickey Rose was a childhood friend of Woody Allen, sharing his pal's fervent enthusiasms for baseball, jazz and movies and later becoming the young filmmaker's writing partner for his early, madcap comedies "Bananas" and "Take the Money and Run." Rose,...
Tags: Sports, Baseball, New York University, The Odd Couple (tv program), Movies
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Chained thinking on the federal deficit
Washington's tug of war over the federal budget has many wonders, but the biggest one of all must be the lengths to which politicians and pundits will go to deprive Granny and Grandpa of $30 a month. That's the amount by which benefits for the average...
Tags: Politics, Retirement, Game Playing, Barack Obama, Steaks
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How to store fresh eggs
Stocking up on eggs for Easter? Next time you run to the store for eggs, don't even think about storing them in the handy open plastic egg holder on the door of your refrigerator. Keep the eggs in their carton, on a shelf, toward the back of the fridge....
Tags: Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure, Baking Powder, Pancakes, Walnuts
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This week's Culinary SOS: Pancakes from Clinton Street in N.Y.
This week's Culinary SOS request comes from Pam Edwards in Long Beach: "On a business trip to New York City a few years ago, I had the best pancakes of my life at the Clinton Street Baking Co. I've been on a quest ever since to find some that taste as...
Tags: Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure, Pancakes, Butter, Blueberries
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$50 for a cup of coffee? All you need is elephant poop
Starbucks raised eyebrows when it recently started offering coffee for $7 a cup. But that's nothing compared to a brew that goes for a hefty $50 per serving. Why does this coffee cost so much? Because the beans first have to be eaten, digested and...
Tags: Starbucks Corp.
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60 Freeway partially reopens after fatal crash, closure
L.A. NOWThree lanes of the eastbound 60 Freeway reopened shortly after 6 p.m. Friday following a fatal crash that resulted in a seven-hour closure at Diamond Bar Boulevard.... -
Review: John Hurt is magnificent in Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape'
With his shock of silver-gray hair, his face etched by time with the lean expressiveness of a Giacometti sculpture and his soulful eyes registering every fleeting hurt and happiness, John Hurt bears a striking resemblance to Samuel Beckett in the...
Tags: The Elephant Man (movie), Kirk Douglas, Arts and Culture, Samuel Beckett, John Hurt
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