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Farmers turn to drip-tape irrigation to save water
RIVERDALE, Calif. — Last year, the federal government gave farmer Dan Errotabere half of the water it had awarded him the previous year to cultivate his 5,200 acres. But he still managed to reap a yield as much as 25% higher. "I've got to do...
Tags: Energy Saving, Environmental Issues, Natural Resources, Apple iPad, Water Supply
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In Watertown, hiding in the bathroom, hearing the gunshots
WATERTOWN, Mass. -- An hour or two before, Deanna Finn hadn't anticipated she’d be ducking with her son in the bathroom of her Watertown home, listening to gunshots, her husband blocks away. The travel ban that had marooned area residents in their... -
Boston bombings manhunt: Lockdown closes campuses, halts transit
Residents of Boston and its nearby suburbs woke to find themselves in a virtual lockdown Friday as mass transit came to a halt, college campuses were closed and officials urged people to shutter their businesses and stay inside. “It is important...Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Colleges and Universities, Deval Patrick, Public Transportation
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How the Kings' championship banner was made
Before the Kings hoisted their 2012 Stanley Cup banner to the rafters of Staples Center, the biggest decision they had was choosing a company to make it. Luc Robitaille, the team's president of business operations, said the club decided to go with New...
Tags: Stanley Cup Playoffs, Los Angeles Kings, Staples Center, LeBron James
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Morgan MacLean: Turning urban trash into beautiful illusions
As an architectural model maker for Frank O. Gehry, Morgan MacLean learned how to turn a wad of paper into a replica of a building. Now, as a sculptor, he is tweaking that creative process. The artist, 34, lives and works in Highland Park, devoting...
Tags: Arts, Artists, Arts and Culture, Fine Artists, Sculpture
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Dr. Charles Epstein dies at 77; geneticist survived attack by Unabomber
Dr. Charles Epstein, a UC San Francisco medical geneticist who studied Down syndrome and pioneered genetic counseling for families with affected children, but whose career was temporarily interrupted by a vicious 1993 attack by the notorious Unabomber,...Tags: Science, Behavioral Conditions, Crime, Law and Justice, Biology, University of California, Berkeley
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Sidney Harman dies at 92; Newsweek owner and high-fidelity sound pioneer
Sidney Harman, a philanthropist, polymath and pioneer in high-fidelity sound for homes and cars who tried to resuscitate an icon of American journalism when he bought Newsweek last year, has died. He was 92.
Harman died Tuesday night in Washington, D.C.,...Tags: Companies and Corporations, InterActiveCorp, Chemotherapy, Jimmy Carter, Frank Sinatra
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Meinhardt Raabe dies at 94; one of the Munchkins in 'The Wizard of Oz'
Times Staff And Wire ReportsMeinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner in "The Wizard of Oz" and proclaimed that the Wicked Witch of the East was "really most sincerely dead," has died. He was 94. Raabe died Friday morning at a hospital in Orange Park, Fla., after an apparent...Tags: Academy Awards, The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939), World Columbian Exposition (1893), Movies, L. Frank Baum
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Sheldon J. Segal dies at 83; scientist led development of long-lasting contraceptives
Sheldon J. Segal, who led the team that developed Norplant, Jadelle, Mirena and other long-lasting contraceptive agents that are used by more than 120 million women around the world and who promoted the idea that women did not have to have monthly...Tags: Birth Control, University of Iowa, The Washington Post, World War II (1939-1945), Bedford (Bronx, New York)
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Samuel M. Genensky dies at 81; mathematician invented tools for the near-blind
Samuel M. Genensky, a former Rand Corp. mathematician and inventor whose near-blindness led him to help others cope with limited eyesight and become more self-sufficient, died June 26 at his Santa Monica home. He was 81.
The cause was complications of...Tags: World War I (1914-1918), Brown University, Education, Television Industry, Obituaries
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Soldier is killed by roadside bomb in Iraq
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWhen George Howell told his hometown friends that, at age 24, he had decided to enlist in the Army despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, they tried to talk him out of it. His best friend, Derek Paris, remembers Howell as unshakable. "He just said,...Tags: Children, Family, Wars and Interventions, Crime, Law and Justice, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Once an aid in a federal probe, antiquities scholar becomes a key target
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThird of three parts On a March visit to the United States from her adopted home in Thailand, antiquities scholar Roxanna Brown met her brother for lunch in Santa Monica. Roxanna was broke, Fred Brown recalled. She seemed nervous. For years, she'd...Tags: Theft, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Vomiting, Lawyers, Organized Crime
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