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Community news: Poet David Meyerhof recognized, William M. Burke scales Mt. Everest
David Meyerhof of Burbank is a published poet, and now everyone in his hometown knows it. Meyerhof received recognition from the city of Burbank, the State Assembly and the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday at the Little White Chapel during the...
Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Awards and Prizes, Entertainment Events, Mike Gatto, Arts and Culture
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A full life: Salisbury man combines love for family, cars and wood carving
Wayne DeAngelis is happy with his life. You can tell because he laughs as soon as you ask him. Or you can watch him smile while he steers the yellow 1934 Ford he restored and refurbished with a Mercedes-Benz roof. Another way to tell that the...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Allentown, Ford, Arts, Sculpture
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Scientists create human embryos to make stem cells
For the first time, scientists have created human embryos that are genetic copies of living people and used them to make stem cells — a feat that paves the way for treating a range of diseases with personalized body tissues but also ignites fears of...
Tags: Science, Diabetes, Stanford University, Alzheimer's Disease, Chemical Industry
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Global Voices: Palestinian quest for statehood a moving target
In the 65 years since the creation of Israel and the scattering of millions of Palestinians from their historic homeland, hope of resolving the core crisis of the Middle East has risen to joyous pinnacles like Camp David and crashed into despair with...Tags: United Nations, Hamas, Palestinian National Authority, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Israel
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Tale-tellers' chagrin and bear it in shame game
Mary Hoffmann was out of my league. Star gymnast. One of the cutest girls in the ninth grade. Rumored to date upperclassmen. I thought of her immediately when I was invited to be one of three contestants last Friday in the season finale of "Shame That...Tags: Entertainment Events, Awards and Prizes, Abortion, Dance, Entertainment
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The indomitable ambition of Elie Wiesel
Change of SubjectFrom the Sunday print column “I haven't even begun,” said Elie Wiesel during a phone conversation I had with him last week. “I have so much still to do in this life, and I sometimes have the feeling I haven’t...... -
Friday's TV Highlights: 'Blue Bloods' on CBS
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 5 - 11, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Undercover Boss The new episode...
Tags: Maggie Q, Andy Dick, Tom Dreesen, Shane West, Landforms
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'Back to the Future' or modern reality?
For RedEyeI've come up with a theory that will almost undoubtedly end with me winning a Nobel Prize. No big deal. It strikes me that the terror, fear and general despondency of the world—the dystopian quality of the past decade or so—makes perfect...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Paris Hilton, Iraq War (2003-2011), Gwyneth Paltrow
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Anchee Min on her memoir, "The Cooked Seed"
In “Red Azalea,” her best-selling 1994 memoir, Anchee Min told the compelling story of her childhood and early adulthood in China during the Cultural Revolution. The daughter of former teachers who were reassigned to jobs as manual laborers in...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Teachers, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Authors, The Wall Street Journal
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Seeing what there is to see, and hearing too much, at Angel Stadium
It's another hymn of an evening down here in Anaheim, the French Riviera of freeways. Took a mere two hours to drive from L.A., which exceeds the capacity of many bladders. Fortunately, the kid in the back seat fell asleep in Azusa of all places, or the...
Tags: Los Angeles Dodgers, Angel Stadium of Anaheim, Sports, Albert Pujols, Mike Scioscia
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A journalist remembers Mexican architect Pedro Ramirez Vazquez
Architecture and journalism, like politics, sometimes make strange bedfellows. Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, the great Mexican builder who died April 16 at age 94, was responsible for many of the monumental public works that defined the Modernist look and...Tags: Entertainment Events, Architecture, Mexico, Olympic Games, Arts and Culture
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Orlando marketer works to bring recognition to slain civil-rights icon Medgar Evers
"Man has not until this day, done what God would have us do. That is, love our neighbor as ourselves, especially if one neighbor happens to be black, and the other neighbor white." — Medgar Evers 1963 was an eventful year in America — one...Tags: Justice and Rights, Human Interest, Emmett Till, Crime, Law and Justice, Entertainment Events
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