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For Rosh Hashanah, honey, you have options
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIt doesn't matter whether you were born in Brooklyn or Borneo — if you're Jewish you'll probably include honey on your shopping list for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which begins on the evening of Sept. 28. Like most Jewish holidays, Rosh...Tags: Abdominal Pain, Judaism, Honey, Religious Festivals, Thyme
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Word Play: Where the Wild Things still are
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe idea of caring for the environment seems to be easier to get across to kids than to adults. Many adults just think the world is too complicated. "What difference does one light bulb or one plastic water bottle make in the wide world?" they think. For...Tags: Jane Goodall, Conservation, Bodies of Water, Biography (genre), Biology
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Checking up on Whitewater Canyon's wild things
With rain soaking their clothing and fogging up their binoculars, 50 researchers and university students armed with butterfly nets and specimen bottles fanned out across Whitewater Canyon at daybreak Monday to take the first full accounting of wildlife in...Tags: Zoology, Forestry and Timber, Dianne Feinstein, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Science and Technology
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Christmas gift ideas: Makeup, perfume, lotion, candles and bath products
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe holidays are a season of beauty — if the abundance of offerings related to looks is any indication. We've culled the outpouring to bring gift-givers some ideas in a range of prices for a variety of pretty predilections. Don't be surprised if...Tags: Nazareth, Estee Lauder Cos., Jane Austen, Health and Beauty Products, Matt Damon
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Labrador who ate an entire beehive wins pet insurance company's award for oddest claim
L.A. UnleashedIt would be difficult to argue with the pet-loving folks who voted Ellie, a year-old Labrador retriever from Santee, Calif., the winner of VPI Pet Insurance's Hambone Award for oddest insurance claim. After all, she did eat an entire beehive...... -
How to grow native plants in containers
L.A. at HomeRancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont displays the ravishing beauty of California's wild plants. But the setting is so operatic, it can be hard to imagine this flora on a smaller stage, say, a patio or apartment balcony. Unless you happen upon a... -
Pasadena gardener becomes a one-woman food bank
L.A. at HomeVirginia Pacaâs backyard garden is more than a feast for the eyes. It provides food for friends, for families on the economic edge, for the homeless at a Pasadena food bank. When Paca, a Pasadena architect and garden designer, bought...... -
It's a name game with hybrid fruits
It used to be that a peach was a peach and a plum was a plum, and that was it. Now, however, breeders are coming up with complex hybrids between species, such as fruits that are a combination of peaches, apricots and plums, and cherries or nectarines...Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, Genetics, Marketing, Forestry and Timber, Apricots
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Lilacs, spring's calling card, are in full bloom at Descanso Gardens
L.A. at HomeThere's nothing shy about spring in Descanso Gardens, that unexpected Eden tucked into the stony foothills of La Cañada Flintridge -- especially not it's lilac garden in the spring.... -
Elephants' newly discovered fear of bees could help prevent run-ins with African farmers
L.A. UnleashedJOHANNESBURG, South Africa â Eek, a bee! Lore has it that elephants are afraid of mice, but scientists have now discovered that elephants are truly afraid of bees -- and that the pachyderms even sound an alarm when they encounter...... -
Handmade gifts fit for a first lady
Caleb Siemon peered into the gaping glow of the furnace and, with a few careful turns of his blowpipe, deftly gathered a fist-sized blob of molten glass, just as he has thousands of times. His hands, as leathered and cracked as a sunbaked saddle from 10...Tags: Michelle Obama, Heads of State, Honey, Government, Home and Garden Products
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