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Chile: 4x4 by 4,000 miles
Times Staff WriterI 'VE got a thousand miles behind me and three thousand to go. I've got a dashboard tan. Hammer down. Radar love. It's the middle of the night in the middle of the Atacama Desert, along a stretch of haunted ground called the Pampa del Indio Muerto. I...Tags: England, Forestry and Timber, Bolivia, Gaming, Los Angeles International Airport
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Late, great, immigration debate
This week's Dust-up has treated the Secure Fence Act, immigration economics, amnesty and workplace immigration raids. In today's final installment, Jacoby and Krikorian consider the politics of immigration. Giving the people what they don't want By...Tags: Career and Workplace, U.S. House of Representatives, Deportation, Immigration, White House
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Beekeeping resources
Supplies Los Angeles Honey Company 1559 Fishburn Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90063 (323) 264-2383 Local Beekeeping Clubs and Blogs Backwards Beekeepers Backyard Beekeepers Beekeepers' Assn. of Southern California California State Beekeepers' Assn....Tags: University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Beekeeping, Science, Education
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Does Mars need humans?
Today, Hickam and Simberg watch the moon and the Red Planet for signs of human life. Yesterday, they assessed national space ambitions and NASA's role in achieving them. Later this week, they'll talk about the Mars mission, evolution in space, post-...Tags: Space Programs, Death, Steroids, Elections, Satellite Technology
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'Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees,' by Roger Deakin
Wildwood A Journey Through Trees Roger Deakin Free Press: 392 pp., $26.95 Can someone tell me why old-fashioned naturalists write so beautifully and present-day environmentalists write so badly? Deakin's writing, in this and his previous book,...Tags: Forestry and Timber, England, Politics, Photography, Death
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Afghanistan's hidden treasures, hidden no more
Special to The TimesIN AN act that provoked worldwide outrage, the fundamentalist Taliban rulers of Afghanistan in March 2001 destroyed the monumental statues of Buddha that had been carved into the rock cliffs of Bamiyan 1,600 years ago. The shocking destruction was not...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Arts, Taliban, Death, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Photographer shot famed LBJ photo
The Associated PressCecil Stoughton, the White House photographer who shot the historic image of Lyndon Johnson taking the oath of office as president after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, has died. He was 88. Stoughton died Monday evening at his home on Merritt Island,...Tags: Politics, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Society, Photography, Death
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The role of place in the world
In recent years, the notion that the world, if not flat, is rapidly flattening as a result of the forces of globalization has gained currency to the point of becoming a platitude. So mobile, so interconnected, so integrated is this new world that historic...Tags: England, Globalization, Israel, Business Trips, Crime, Law and Justice
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"The Willow Field: A Novel" by William Kittredge
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFor those of us at home in the West, literary regionalism has always been a curious matter: When we hear that so-and-so is, for instance, a Southern writer, it is presumed that we grasp a timeless sensibility as distinct to the letters of the region as...Tags: Interior Policy, Literature, Wallace Stegner, John Wayne, Jack Kerouac
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'Decoding the Heavens' by Jo Marchant
Decoding the Heavens A 2,000-Year-Old Computer -- and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets Jo Marchant Da Capo: 328 pp., $25 A friend and I can't discuss archaeology without arguing over the greatest wonder of the ancient world. Is it the...Tags: Gaming, Entertainment, Mystery (genre), Arts and Culture, Science
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A history of paradise
Times Staff WriterWe are obsessed with real estate and always have been. For more than 125 years, Southern Californians have bought it, sold it, graded it, changed it, planted it, built on it, dreamed on it, torn it down and started all over again. We have pushed ourselves...Tags: California State University, Northridge, Literature, Architecture, Los Angeles International Airport, Bodies of Water
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Ballot measure would phase out rent control laws
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterHaving toiled in machine shops during World War II and worked for decades in other manual jobs, 84-year-old Mary Kubancik felt entitled to live out her years in a pleasant mobile home park in Sylmar. Instead, the frail Kubancik is preparing to move out...Tags: Politics, Bankruptcy, Referenda, Crime, Law and Justice, Condos and Houses
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