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In the Pipeline: AQMD isn't listening to Huntington Beach
Right after I spoke at the Air Quality Management District board meeting Friday, several people asked me if I'd noticed what happened during my discussion with Chairman William Burke. I had not. Evidently, the sergeant at arms at the meeting had...
Tags: Book, Authors
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The boys of summer, past and present
The integration of Major League Baseball, so heroically carried by Jackie Robinson and ingeniously engineered by Branch Rickey, occupied one spring and summer season in 1947. The boys of summer occupied the baseball seasons of the early 1950s, the...
Tags: Los Angeles Dodgers, Baseball, Movies, World Series, Sports
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R. Conrad Stein
Residence: Chicago Age: 75 Life story in 100 words or less: Chicago lifer who grew up in Lakeview and graduated from Lane Tech High School. Served in the Marine Corps (1955 to 1958), after which he studied history — "a throwaway degree," he said...Tags: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iraq War (2003-2011), Chicago Tribune, Wars and Interventions
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Tommie Smith: An Olympic journey of prejudice, then perseverance
The boos and the catcalls echoed as Tommie Smith and John Carlos walked off the medal stand in the summer of 1968, track shoes in their hands to symbolize the poverty of their youth. The noise reached a crescendo as they stepped into a tunnel labeled...Tags: Arthur Ashe, Mexico City, Orange County Regional History Center, Justin Gatlin, Mexico
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Oswald's gun and the decline of U.S. politics
Next week marks a much-overlooked anniversary: It will be 50 years since Lee Harvey Oswald, under the name A. Hidell, purchased the Italian surplus Carcano M91/38 rifle with which he would eight months later assassinate President John F. Kennedy. Don'...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Lyndon B. Johnson, Lee Harvey Oswald, Barack Obama
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Obituary: Raymond Medley
Raymond Medley 1946-2013 HARRODSBURG — Raymond Eugene Medley, 66, husband of Sandra Jean Gibson Medley, died Sunday. Born Nov. 10, 1946, in Harrodsburg, he was a son of the late Albert and Lois Drury Medley. He served in the Marine Corps... -
Samuel G. Thomas Jr., 62
Samuel Gardner Thomas Jr., 62, of Boonsboro, Md., passed from this life Wednesday, March 6, 2013, at his home while surrounded by his family. Born Sept. 9, 1950, in Washington County, Md., he was the son of the late Samuel Gardner Thomas Sr. and Anna Mae...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Human Interest, Wars and Interventions, International Military Interventions, American Legion
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Rep Stage in Columbia presents 'Home'
A plain set is the congenial setting for the home truths imparted by Samm-Art Williams' "Home" at Rep Stage. Like the several wood platforms on which most of the action occurs, this play gets down to basics. The three actors have very few props or costume...
Tags: Howard Community College, Celebrities
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A woman's fantasies and fears take wing in 'Amelia'
It's heartening to see area college and university music programs taking up the slack with respect to significant recent American operas Chicago's professional opera companies have ignored. A little more than a week ago, student singers and orchestra...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Music Industry, University of Houston, Amelia (movie), The Grapes of Wrath (movie)
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A broad look at America's music
America's Music. That's the title of a six-week educational series under way at the Orlando Public Library, but music doesn't reflect the scope of the films, performances, recordings and lectures that will chronicle the evolution of pop culture...
Tags: Bob Dylan, Tribeca, Arts and Culture, Libraries, Orlando Public Library
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Bush's war, 10 years later
The 10th anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq seems an appropriate time to look back at how it all happened and what it has wrought, not so much for Iraq as for the United States, which poured its own troops, treasure and world reputation into...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Baghdad (Iraq), Lyndon B. Johnson, Colin Powell
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What went wrong at Aberdeen Proving Ground's Super Pond?
Shaped like a teardrop and carved out of the eastern bank of the Bush River, the UNDEX Test Facility at Aberdeen Proving Ground has earned the nickname "Super Pond" for its unusual properties. Viewed from above, the man-made pond looks much darker...
Tags: U.S. Army, Emergency Incidents, Transportation Accidents, Weaponry, Science and Technology
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Apr 13, 2013
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Apr 10, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 8, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Mar 8, 2013
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Mar 7, 2013
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Mar 7, 2013
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Mar 3, 2013
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Mar 7, 2013
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Mar 22, 2013
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Mar 2, 2013
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