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Race and religion: Has church segregation really changed since MLK?
![<i>"It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning…"</i>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-01/51687934-16204106.jpg "<i>"It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning…\"</i>")
"It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning…"
Martin Luther King Jr.
Since King first raised the issue of race and religion more than 50 years ago, much has changed. Just how different...Tags: Arts and Culture, Civil Rights, First Baptist Church of Orlando, Family, Colleges and Universities
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The simple summer pleasures of amusement parks
With a handful of amusement parks within easy driving distance, Baltimoreans can spend their summer weekends sampling breath-taking roller coasters, cavorting with some of their kids' favorite animated characters or getting soaked even though they're...Tags: Six Flags Inc., Meteorological Disasters, The Hershey Co., Hersheypark, Tourism and Leisure
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'Remarkable Creatures' by Tracy Chevalier
![Today, most people understand that animals can become extinct, whether as a consequence of a giant asteroid or because of our own pattern of habitat destruction, climate change and pollution that have endangered hundreds more. But just 200 years ago, the word "paleontology" hadn't been invented and Britain's Geology Society was just a few years old, its very existence a careful negotiation between science and religion, where some believed that Earth was formed on a specific date (Oct. 23, 4000 BC) and that it contained all of God's creatures, on whom He lavished loving and continual care.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-01/51779592-21160909-187105.gif "Today, most people understand that animals can become extinct, whether as a consequence of a giant asteroid or because of our own pattern of habitat destruction, climate change and pollution that have endangered hundreds more. But just 200 years ago, the word "paleontology\" hadn't been invented and Britain's Geology Society was just a few years old, its very existence a careful negotiation between science and religion, where some believed that Earth was formed on a specific date (Oct. 23, 4000 BC) and that it contained all of God's creatures, on whom He lavished loving and continual care.")
Today, most people understand that animals can become extinct, whether as a consequence of a giant asteroid or because of our own pattern of habitat destruction, climate change and pollution that have endangered hundreds more. But just 200 years ago,...Tags: Zoology, Jane Austen, Paleontology, Science and Technology, Family
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Mitch Miller dies at 99; musical innovator and host of 'Sing Along With Mitch'
![Mitch Miller, who helped shape musical tastes in the 1950s and early '60s as the head of the popular music division at Columbia Records and hosted the hit "Sing Along With Mitch" TV show in the early '60s while becoming one of the era's most commercially successful recording artists, has died. He was 99.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-08/55319831-02154654.jpg "Mitch Miller, who helped shape musical tastes in the 1950s and early '60s as the head of the popular music division at Columbia Records and hosted the hit "Sing Along With Mitch\" TV show in the early '60s while becoming one of the era's most commercially successful recording artists, has died. He was 99.")
Mitch Miller, who helped shape musical tastes in the 1950s and early '60s as the head of the popular music division at Columbia Records and hosted the hit "Sing Along With Mitch" TV show in the early '60s while becoming one of the era's most...Tags: Ava Gardner, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Frankie Laine, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Boyd
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Professor advises underwater homeowners to walk away from mortgages
Go ahead. Break the chains. Stop paying on your mortgage if you owe more than the house is worth. And most important: Don't feel guilty about it. Don't think you're doing something morally wrong.
That's the incendiary core message of a new academic paper...Tags: Mortgages, The Washington Post, California, Freddie Mac, Consumers
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Popular kids get flu first
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt's not easy being popular — at least, not when you have to worry about your higher risk of catching the flu. According to a study published online Wednesday in PLOS One, people who rank high in social groups tend to contract infections sooner...Tags: Flu, Physical Therapists, Science and Technology, Diseases and Illnesses, Human Interest
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Do your Christmas lights match your personality?
Tribune Media ServicesGarishly over- Santa Claus-ed yards, lit up like twinkling Klieg lights, invariably raise the question: What kind of Christmas nut inhabits that house? For that matter, what does any holiday lawn decor -- be it simple, extravagant or light-free -- say...Tags: Philosophy, Oak Park, Santa Claus (fictional character), Science and Technology, David Sloan
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'Mad Men' - More fun to think about than watch?
Baltimore Sun reporterFrom the Z on TV blog: Last week, Andy Bienstock, the program director at public radio station WYPR, said something about "Mad Men" that I have been thinking about for days. Since we were talking casually, I wasn't taking notes, so I will paraphrase...Tags: Radio Industry, Entertainment, Heart and Circulatory System, Human Interest, Hair and Nails
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The evolution of religion
Today's topic: What do you think of the theory that religious belief and experience are wired through evolution?
Homo religious Point: Michael Shermer
Did humans evolve to be religious and believe in God? In the most general sense, yes, we did. Here'...Tags: Sociology, University of California, Science and Technology, Natural Disasters, Disasters
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Faith and Belief: 'The Evolution of God' by Robert Wright and 'The Case for God' by Karen Armstrong
The Evolution of God
Robert Wright
Little, Brown: 576 pp. $25.99
The Case for God
Karen Armstrong
Alfred A. Knopf: 432 pp., $27.95
Until the discovery of DNA's double helix by James Watson and Francis Crick, prehistory was entirely the province of...Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Education, University of California, Irvine, Arts and Culture, Karen Armstrong
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Oil spill stress starts to weigh on gulf residents
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterGRAND ISLE, LA. -- Ordinarily this time of year, Adam Trahan would be out on the Gulf of Mexico on a shrimp boat, trawling from South Pass to the Chandeleur Islands. Instead, last week he was trawling between the bar at Cisco's Hideaway on Oak Lane and...Tags: Philosophy, Meteorological Disasters, Environmental Pollution, University of South Alabama, Washington (U.S. state)
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YMCA Day Care May Lose License After Tots Found on Train Tracks
KTLA NewsANAHEIM -- A YMCA day-care center may lose its license after two toddlers wandered away and were later found on nearby railroad tracks. In a complaint filed this week, the Department of Social Services said the YMCA Children’s Station violated health and...Tags: KTLA, Anaheim, Medical Procedures and Tests, Children, Railway Transportation
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