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Food safety law won't mend regulatory divide
Los Angeles TimesAs lawmakers prepare for hearings into the largest egg recall in U.S. history, food safety advocates say the congressional probe could give momentum to a long-delayed measure that would enhance the power of the Food and Drug Administration. If passed,...Tags: Tom Harkin, White House, Standards, Farms, Democratic Party
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Tim Rutten: Paul Ryan's budget blueprint would push the aged into poverty
The hall of mirrors in which our bitterly partisan politics now play themselves out is a curious place. But even by its distorted standards, the reaction to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan's budget blueprint has been odd, particularly the...Tags: Medicare, Rentals, Lyndon B. Johnson, Social Issues, Career and Workplace
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The Geezer book club
The Geezer book club
The club began in 1997 when seven men, after 40 years of friendship, realized their conversations had fallen into a rut. Now, when everyone is vertical, ambulatory and in town, there are 11 of us with an average age of 80.
Our...Tags: Literature, Daniel J Boorstin, Lifestyle and Leisure, Clubs and Associations, Arts and Culture
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Famished for Fiction
Famished for Fiction
Our club has been meeting for three years and comprises fifth- and sixth-graders at the Melzer School in Morton Grove. We meet monthly over the lunch and recess periods, which is about 55 minutes.
This year the club became so...Tags: Daniel J Boorstin, Lifestyle and Leisure, Entertainment, Clubs and Associations, Nelson Algren
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Princess-to-be Kate Middleton has Maryland family ties
Soon-to-be princess Kate Middleton has a few prominent Marylanders — and American celebrities — in her family tree.
Middleton, a commoner who marries Prince William on Friday, is a distant cousin of "The Star-Spangled Banner" author Francis...Tags: Ellen DeGeneres, Madonna, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Marriage, World War II (1939-1945)
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Astral Weeks: A sci-fi master's beginnings
!["I am submitting the enclosed short story 'LIFE-LINE' for either 'Astounding' or 'Unknown,'" Robert A. Heinlein wrote to editor John Campbell in 1939, "because I am not sure which policy it fits the better."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-12/58208423-10154158.jpg ""I am submitting the enclosed short story 'LIFE-LINE' for either 'Astounding' or 'Unknown,'\" Robert A. Heinlein wrote to editor John Campbell in 1939, \"because I am not sure which policy it fits the better.\"")
Special to the Los Angeles Times"I am submitting the enclosed short story 'LIFE-LINE' for either 'Astounding' or 'Unknown,'" Robert A. Heinlein wrote to editor John Campbell in 1939, "because I am not sure which policy it fits the better." The former magazine published science fiction,...Tags: Cults and Sects, Biography (genre), Social Issues, World War II (1939-1945), Health and Medical Professionals
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5 questions with J. Adams Oaks
Tribune reporterChicago author J. Adams Oaks catches us up on his latest. Catch us up on your most recent work? My first novel, “Why I Fight” recently came out in paperback. The book is a coming-of-age story about a unique kid named Wyatt Reaves who’s...Tags: Facebook, Trips and Vacations, Coca-Cola Co., Wicker Park, Adults
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Michael Hiltzik: Utopia Unlimited
Money & CompanyThe California gubernatorial election of 1934 referred to in my Sunday column, pitting the muckraking author Upton Sinclair against the world, is instructive as a prefigurement of what was to come. The economic backdrop was not much different from today'... -
A major Disney museum in Glendale? It may be the future for the company's past
The Hero ComplexTHE DISNEY ARCHIVES This is a longer version of my article that ran Friday on the front page of the Los Angeles Times. To see a photo gallery with more images from the Disney archive, click on any photo. After...... -
Ronald Gottesman dies at 77; longtime USC professor co-edited 'Norton Anthology of American Literature: Volumes I and II'
![Ronald Gottesman, a retired USC English professor who co-edited the "Norton Anthology of American Literature: Volumes I and II" published in 1979, died May 10 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center of complications from pneumonia, USC announced. He was 77.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-05/53885419-21214857.jpg "Ronald Gottesman, a retired USC English professor who co-edited the "Norton Anthology of American Literature: Volumes I and II\" published in 1979, died May 10 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center of complications from pneumonia, USC announced. He was 77.")
Ronald Gottesman, a retired USC English professor who co-edited the "Norton Anthology of American Literature: Volumes I and II" published in 1979, died May 10 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center of complications from pneumonia, USC announced. He was 77....Tags: Education, Literature, Health, Death, University of Southern California
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'A Bright and Guilty Place' by Richard Rayner
A Bright and Guilty Place
Murder, Corruption, and
L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age
Richard Rayner
Doubleday: 270 pp., $25
Everything has its counterpart. For every piece of matter there is a like piece of antimatter, for every movie star there is or...Tags: Clara Bow, Steve McQueen, John Barrymore, Crimes, Blackmail and Extortion
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'Gaza' author Joe Sacco may walk away from battlefields: 'I'm kind of at that point'
The Hero ComplexReed Johnson caught up with Joe Sacco and found that the cartoonist and correspondent may be taking a break from his hot-zone reportage. If our present era constitutes a sort of End Times for mainstream media, it's proving to be......
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