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Housing crisis hasn't touched San Marino
With its wide tree-lined streets and stately mansions set on manicured lawns, San Marino has long boasted the best property values in the San Gabriel Valley.
Now it has a new claim to fame: It's the Southland's only wealthy residential community that...Tags: Hong Kong, Real Estate Buyers, Values, Homes, Property
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Asia's regional airlines give flight to travelers on a budget
Special to the Los Angeles TimesAir travel in Asia used to be the business of just a few big international carriers. Now it's open skies from Hong Kong to Mumbai, India, thanks to the advent of regional carriers just like those that have made flying cheaper — if not easier —...Tags: Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Europe, JetBlue Airways, Singapore, Malaysia
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Going back to their roots at Nikkei Senior Gardens
Tom Doi harvested a bountiful crop of vegetables last fall: tomatoes, corn, eggplant and green beans. He reaped so much produce from his garden, in fact, that he could share his vine-ripened Big Boy tomatoes with the folks at Nikkei Senior Gardens, a...Tags: University of Southern California, Stanford University, Gays and Lesbians, Human Interest, Culture
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Japanese American groups in L.A. use Web to respond to quake
Japanese American community groups in Los Angeles used a variety of social networking tools over the weekend to coordinate their efforts in response to Friday's monstrous earthquake that struck northwest Japan.
Several of the groups' websites are being...Tags: Television Industry, Newspapers, Computer Networking and Internet, Mass Media, Human Interest
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Diabetes belt: American South gets more health notoriety
First, we had the "stroke belt," a swath of the American South characterized by those with unmanaged high blood pressure and a sedentary lifestyle. Then, we got the "obesity belt," a portion of Southern geography inhabited by a number of folks with...Tags: Medical Research, Diabetes, Physical Conditions, Heart Disease, Native Americans
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Hisaye Yamamoto dies at 89; writer of Japanese American stories
Hisaye Yamamoto, one of the first Asian American writers to earn literary distinction after World War II with highly polished short stories that illuminated a world circumscribed by culture and brutal strokes of history, has died. She was 89.
Yamamoto...Tags: U.S. Army, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Newspapers, History, Japan
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Taking a census of Grammy nominees, winners
Who gets nominated for a Grammy? Musicians, sure. But who exactly, on paper, are they?
Take Frank Sinatra. Yes, he was a singer of incredible power, and garnered deserved nods for the beauty of his tone and his mellifluous phrasing. But artistry aside,...Tags: Paul Simon, Culture, Popular Music (genre), Barbra Streisand, Eminem
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Victor Martinez dies at 56; novel won National Book Award
Victor Martinez, who won the 1996 National Book Award for young people's literature for his semi-autobiographical novel about growing up Mexican American in California's Central Valley, has died. He was 56.
Martinez died Feb. 18 at his San Francisco...Tags: Awards and Prizes, University of California, Human Interest, Literature, Arts and Culture
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Markups by 'body shops' inflate the public's cost
The Los Angeles Community College District had launched a $5.7-billion campaign to modernize its nine campuses, and district leaders wanted the world to know. They hired marketing consultant Joan Marshall to help spread the word.
She worked closely...Tags: Employers, Health Insurance Cost, Misdemeanors, Government, Employment
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At southern border, Obama calls immigration reform an 'economic imperative'
President Obama visited the southern border Tuesday to push for an overhaul of the immigration system, part of a renewed effort to shore up his standing among Latinos and paint Republicans as hostile to a minority group that is a growing force in U.S....Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Crime, Law and Justice, John Boehner, Migration, Media Industry
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Reel China: Targets an elusive film fan — the Chinese American
For years, Chinese films shown in U.S. theaters have fallen into two distinct camps, both driven by largely white patrons: martial-arts movies for young men, such as Jet Li's "Hero," or critically acclaimed art-house fare, such as Kaige Chen's "Farewell...Tags: Organized Crime, Comedy (genre), Crimes, Film Festivals, Toronto International Film Festival
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Singled-out L.A. Unified teacher shares skills with colleagues
In February, fifth-grade teacher Miguel Aguilar stood in the front of a class, nervous and sweating.
The subject — reading and comprehension — was nothing new. But on this day, his students weren't 11-year-olds in sneakers and sweatshirts:...Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, School Examinations, Teachers Unions, Academic Progress
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