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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, Bodies of Water, South Carolina, Petroleum Industry, Book
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"The Danger Box" by Blue Balliett
Special to the Chicago Tribune"The Danger Box" By Blue Balliett Scholastic, $16.99, 320 pages (ages 9-12) "Every book is a box of ideas. /Every book that shares secrets is a Danger Box." And thus author Blue Balliett launches our exploration into the world of Zoomy Chamberlain, a...Tags: Frank Lloyd Wright, Nearsightedness, Chicago Tribune
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66-Year-Old Wyoming Man Arrested for Sexual Assaults of Eight-year Old
News ReporterPolice in Wyoming have arrested a 66-year-old man on allegations he has committed numerous sexual assaults of a preteen victim. Charles Darwin Runion was picked up on Wednesday and faces numerous charges, including two counts of Criminal Sexual Conduct...Tags: Wyoming, Sex Crimes, Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Sexual Assault
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Deborah Harkness' 'A Discovery of Witches' started with airport bookstores
Special to the Los Angeles TimesSometimes inspiration comes in the unlikeliest places. While vacationing in Puerto Vallarta in fall 2008, USC professor Deborah Harkness, a historian of science, was consumed with the upcoming bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth, but the rest of the...Tags: Davis (Yolo, California), Harry Potter (fictional character), History, Book, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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10 things you might not know about birthdays
Tribune staff reporterSome impressive birthdays have been celebrated lately, including the 200th of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, who were born on the same day in 1809. Let's blow out 10 more candles to celebrate these facts: 1. A "leapling" or "leaper" is a person born...Tags: Robert F. Kennedy, Entertainment, William Shakespeare, Ice Cream, Dennis Farina
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Summer family travel from A to T
Summertime and traveling can be easy -- but for families there are special considerations. Are itineraries and lodgings comfortable? Before we started a family, many of us hiked and backpacked through Europe or Asia, eating on the go and sleeping in...Tags: Family Vacations, Walt Disney World Resort, Foods and Beverages, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Rentals
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Pope John Paul II Dies at 84
Times Staff WriterPope John Paul II, whose indomitable will and uncompromising belief in human dignity helped bring down communism in Eastern Europe and reshaped Christianity's relationship to Judaism, died today. He was 84. The Polish-born John Paul, indisputably the...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), National Government, Literature, History, Career and Workplace
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Book review: 'Seeing Further,' edited by Bill Bryson
Special to the Los Angeles TimesSeeing Further The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society Edited by Bill Bryson William Morrow: 506 pp., $35 There are about 1,400 people currently entitled to tack on "F.R.S." to the end of their names, possibly the world'...Tags: Book, Science and Technology, Los Angeles Times, Gregory Benford, Human Interest
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Sounding Off: More than 300 job applications and counting
Editor's note: This is the first of two parts. The latest description of the employment challenged is the term "in transition." According to the Advanced English Dictionary, "transition" means, "A change from one place or state or subject or stage to...Tags: Career and Workplace, Defense, Science and Technology, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Technology
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Steve Allen, TV innovator, author, composer, dies at 78
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSteve Allen, the zany comedian and witty social commentator whose career zipped at warp speed from one occupation to the next--from hosting the original "Tonight" show to lecturing about morality to composing thousands of songs--has died in Encino at...Tags: Television, Career and Workplace, Comedy (genre), Heart Attack, St. Elsewhere (tv program)
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The Prodigy Returns To A China Of Glittering Labs, Fat Grants And Science Unfettered By Politics. His Dream Comes Full Circle.
The Hartford CourantXiangzhong ``Jerry'' Yang's driver darts between cars in the chaos of a north Beijing highway and turns south into a landscape crammed with construction cranes, each perched on a yellow, 10-story, metallic foot, like sentries to a new era of prosperity....Tags: National Government, Cancer, International Relations, Oncology, Government
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The Darwins' marriage of science and religion
On Jan. 29, 1839, in the little chapel in the English village of Maer, a religious, 30-year-old woman named Emma Wedgwood put on a green silk dress and got married. She believed firmly in a heaven and a hell. And she believed you had to accept God to go...Tags: Science and Technology, Marriage, Death, Heart Attack, Science
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