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NYC tobacco policy would most curb youngest teens: researcher
New York City officials, with the blessing of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, announced Monday that they will seek to raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products in the city’s five boroughs from 18 to 21 years of age. Although the proposed rule...
Tags: Health, University of California, Irvine, New York City Council, Health and Safety at School
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Time 100: Jay-Z, JLaw, Duchess Kate among the most influential
Time magazine has released its 10th annual list of the Time 100 most influential people of the year, and not surprisingly, a number of celebrities have been bestowed the honor. The magazine doesn't rank its picks but divvies up the 100 into five...
Tags: Bryan Cranston, Justin Timberlake, Barack Obama, Zac Posen, Lena Dunham
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Senate votes to consider gun control laws
WASHINGTON — In a lopsided vote, the Senate launched a debate Thursday over the most significant gun legislation in more than a decade, setting up a contest that could last weeks between reinvigorated advocates for stricter laws and conservatives...
Tags: Joe Manchin III, Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama, Patrick J. Toomey, Mike Lee
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The messy complications of breakfast in the classroom
The Los Angeles Unified School District is in a period of tremendous upheaval that, it’s hoped, will result in better education for its students. With so much changing and so much at stake, of course there are more than a few daggers drawn. But when...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Los Angeles Unified School District, Teaching and Learning, Unions, Students
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NYC agrees to pay more than $230,000 after destroying Occupy books
The City of New York has agreed to pay more than $230,000 to settle a lawsuit over destroying thousands of protesters' books after the city's November 2011 raid to break up the Occupy Wall Street encampment. "It was more than just money," Norman Siegel,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Libraries, Laws, Arts and Culture
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L.A. mayor's race: The world isn't watching either
This Los Angeles mayoral election isn’t exactly setting the city's electorate on fire. Nor the world, for that matter. It’s so low key that I was surprised to see a very focused piece in the Guardian, Britain’s liberal national...
Tags: 2012 Democratic National Convention, Antonio Villaraigosa, Occupy Los Angeles, Los Angeles Clippers, Mexico
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Smoking and the right to dumb choices
As thoroughly awful as everyone knows cigarettes to be — still the No. 1 cause of premature death in this country — public officials walk a blurry line when they try to reduce smoking's terrible toll. As long as they lack the will to ban...
Tags: Tobacco Products, Marketing, OxyContin (drug), New York City Council, Advertising
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Landing gear believed to be from 9/11 jet found near N.Y. site
NEW YORK -- A piece of a landing gear believed to be from one of the commercial jetliners that crashed into the World Trade Center towers during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has been discovered wedged behind a building that became the site of a...
Tags: Air Transportation Industry, American Airlines, Inc., Boeing Co., Accidental Death, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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McManus: Boston -- clash of the talking points
A terrorist attack is like a national Rorschach test. Everybody sees in it what they want — usually something that proves a point they've been making all along. Even before the Tsarnaev brothers were identified as the perpetrators of the Boston...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace, Barack Obama, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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L.A. County condom mandate pushes porn producers into Ventura County
Here is a political object lesson from the seamier, steamier end of the entertainment business: The new law in Los Angeles County requiring actors in pornographic films to wear condoms seems merely to have pushed the smutty movie industry into the quiet...
Tags: Pixar Animation, Crime, Law and Justice, Celebrities, Justice System, Clint Eastwood
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Goldberg: 'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'
"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Oklahoma City Bombing (1995), NPR, Political Systems, Barack Obama
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L.A. Votes: Mayoral wannabes spar over ads; school races break record
With less than four weeks to go until voters head to the polls to select Los Angeles’ next mayor, the candidates are sparring about advertising. Eric Garcetti’s campaign is accusing Wendy Greuel of violating federal disclosure laws in a move...
Tags: Wendy Greuel, Career and Workplace, Immigration, Carmen Trutanich, Antonio Villaraigosa
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