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Mar 12, 2012

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Test Kitchen video tip: Making a cornet
Los Angeles Times
If you have any kitchen tips or questions you'd like us to explore, leave a comment below or email us at noelle.carter@latimes.com. Video credit: Myung Chun / Los Angeles Times. Photos: Noelle Carter. 1. Start with a triangular piece of parchment paper ...
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Cash-strapped LA college farm could close
San Francisco Chronicle
The Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/xn4qlZ) says the college has cut the farm supply budget by 25 percent even as feed costs soared. The farm is looking for donations in both labor and money. ___ Information from: Los Angeles Times, www.latimes.com.
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Whitney Houston's sister-in-law describes finding singer dead ...
By Shelby Grad
Hotel guest describes scene at Beverly Hilton. -- Shelby Grad and Andrew Blankstein. Photo: Whitney Houston in 2005. Credit: Los Angeles Times. Email: newstips@latimes.com. Twitter: @lanow. Facebook: Los Angeles Times Local News ...
L.A. NOW
'Hunger Games' fans set up camp at L.A. Live - latimes.com
By Amy Kaufman
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24 Frames
New 'Gone with the Wind' stage adaptation coming in 2013 - latimes ...
By David Ng
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Culture Monster
'Salmon Fishing' successfully lures audiences to box office - latimes ...
By Amy Kaufman
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Company Town
Basketball doubleheader at Mater Dei - latimes.com
By Eric Sondheimer
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Your Stylist: Revving up your spring wardrobe with '50s inspiration ...
By Melissa Magsaysay
Bottom right - Pinky Lee Deluxe Red Sparkle Handbag, $140, at www.uniquevintage.com. Email: image@latimes.com. Twitter: @latimesimage. Facebook: L.A. Times Fashion. More in: Accessories, Melissa Magsaysay, Prada, Spring, your stylist ... Burbank Leader |; Coastline Pilot |; Daily Pilot |; Huntington Beach Independent |; Pasadena Sun |; Valley Sun |; News Press |; KTLA |; Hoy |; Los Angeles Times Magazine · Baltimore Sun |; Chicago Tribune |; Daily Press |; Hartford Courant ...
All The Rage
Decoding 'Luck': Sex, death and horses - latimes.com
By Ted McClelland
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Show Tracker
SXSW 2012: 10 Los Angeles artists to see - latimes.com
By Randall Roberts
Review: Andrew W.K. gets the Avalon to party hard. -- Randall Roberts. Photo: The Allah-Las. Credit: From Innovative Leisure. Twitter: @PopHiss. Facebook:Los Angeles Times Pop Music. More in: Randall Roberts, SXSW. increase text size ...
Pop & Hiss
Single women need to know J.A.C. about dating
By ahowell
But when it came to him, none of that mattered. I had been body-slammed by love. ------. jessica.geltlatimes.com. ------. (c)2012 the Los Angeles Times. Visit the Los Angeles Times at www.latimes.com. Distributed by MCT Information Services ...
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Egyptian military doctor acquitted in 'virginity test' case | The ...
By Erik West
(c)2012 the Los Angeles Times. Visit the Los Angeles Times at www.latimes.com. Distributed by MCT Information Services. Related News: Egypt army doctor cleared in 'virginity tests' case: An Egyptian military court on Sunday acquitted an ...
The Australian Eye
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By Mark Scarp
Los Angeles Times Full-time. East Coast New York, NY Open. The Los Angeles Times is seeking a New York City-based correspondent to anchor our business coverage of Wall Street and beyond. The successful candidate must have experience covering not only the day-to-day stories that drive the world of high finance, but also a strong record of tracking the personalities and issues that shape the ... Please email joe.belbruno@latimes.com with a resume and five of your best clips.
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Wealthy, motivated by greed, are more likely to ... - Los Angeles Times
UC Berkeley researchers' experiments find that people of higher socioeconomic status are more likely to cheat to win a prize, take candy from children and fail to ...
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Plaintiff in healthcare law challenge went ... - Los Angeles Times
Mary Brown, the lead plaintiff challenging President Obama's healthcare law, went bankrupt with her husband with unpaid medical bills. Administration lawyers ...
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California Legislature weighs greater access to ... - Los Angeles Times
Senate bill would allow nurse practitioners, physician assistants and nurse midwives to perform routine abortions in the first trimester. PĂ©rez and Steinberg back ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-me-abortion-20120229,0,7007621.sto...
Hit-man website reels in several customers - latimes.com
FBI Agent Ingerd Sotelo helped unravel the case of the hit-man website. ( Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times / February 27, 2012) ...
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Forest Service to drop fees at most national forests - latimes.com
The Angeles National Forest is one of the areas where visitors must currently display an Adventure Pass. (Don Kelsen / Los Angeles Times / September 14, ...
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Andrew Breitbart dead at 43 of natural causes at UCLA hospital ...
Credit: Al Seib / Los Angeles Times. Email: newstips@latimes.com. Twitter: @ lanow. Facebook: Los Angeles Times Local News. More in: Tablet, Celebrity, ...
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Andrew Breitbart dead in Los Angeles at 43 - latimes.com
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Study suggests breakthrough in organ transplants - latimes.com
By Melissa Healy Los Angeles Times. March 8, 2012. Patients who are lucky enough to get a transplant for a failed organ usually face a lifetime on anti- rejection ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-he-kidney-transplant-stem-cells-20120...
Killer got unemployment benefits while in jail, officials say - latimes ...
By Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times. March 4, 2012, 8:09 p.m.. A convicted killer who got caught because he'd tattooed a graphic mural of the murder scene on ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-me-killer-unemployment-20120305,0,...
Lynn D. ' Buck' Compton dies at 90; judge also ... - Los Angeles Times
Lynn Compton headed the team that prosecuted Sirhan Sirhan for the slaying of Robert F. Kennedy. He and others became known for exploits depicted in 'Band ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-me-lynn-compton-20120228,0,35655...
Rush Limbaugh has so much more to apologize for - latimes.com
 . Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist David Horsey is a political commentator for the Los Angeles Times. @davidhorsey ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-na-tt-limbaugh-apologize-20120304,0,...
Natural oil seepage off Santa Barbara takes a ... - Los Angeles Times
Dozens are turning up along the coastline coated in crude oil and tar. Hardest hit have been common murres, penguin-like birds that spend most of their lives on ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-me-oil-birds-20120307,0,3147878.sto...
China hotel shows nation's building boom may ... - Los Angeles Times
T-30, a 30-story hotel in Changsha, China, was built in two weeks. Some question the safety in such rapid construction, but the builder defends its high- speed ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-fg-china-instant-building-20120308,0,...
Medicare fraud: Biggest case in U.S. history - latimes.com
Serrano@latimes.com ... Michael Muskal has covered local, national, economic and foreign issues at three newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times.
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To stay fiscally healthy, California's hospitals ... - Los Angeles Times
Healthcare reforms will mandate more treatment in doctors' offices and clinics. The changes take effect in 2014, but some hospitals are trying to get an early ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-me-hospital-changes-20120305,0,518...
Teachers' contracts hinder misconduct investigation - latimes.com
By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times. February 28, 2012 .... Los Angeles Times staff writer Stephen Ceasar contributed to this report. Copyright © 2012,Los ...
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L.A. Fire Department admits exaggerating response times - latimes ...
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Justin Bieber's $100000 electric birthday car - latimes.com
... The Fisker Karma. The car was presented to Bieber by manager Scott Braun on the "Ellen DeGeneres Show." (David Undercoffler / Los Angeles Times) ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-fi-tn-justin-bieber-fisker-karma-20120...
Andrew Breitbart's death to be reviewed by L.A. County coroner ...
12 in Washington, D.C. Photo: Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images. Email: newstips@latimes.com. Twitter: @lanow. Facebook: Los Angeles TimesLocal News ...
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Shell launches preemptive legal strike - Los Angeles Times
Shell sues a dozen environmental groups in bid to win legal approval of oil spill response plan in the Arctic Ocean.
www.latimes.com/.../la-na-nn-arctic-drilling-shell-20120229,0...
Video on Ugandan militia leader Joseph Kony ... - Los Angeles Times
A video decrying the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army has gone viral on YouTube — but also drawn criticism as oversimplifying a complex tragedy.
www.latimes.com/.../la-fg-uganda-kony-video-20120309,0,23...
'Chronicle's' Josh Trank looks to spit some Venom - latimes.com
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California physician assistant wins $168 million ... - Los Angeles Times
Ani Chopourian told of sexually inappropriate conduct, bullying and retaliation at a Sacramento hospital. The award is believed to be the largest for a single ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-me-harassment-award-20120302,0,17...
Disneyland locked down after suspicious object found near entrance ...
Photo: Disneyland on Feb. 1. Credit: Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times. Email: newstips@latimes.com. Twitter: @lanow. Facebook: Los Angeles Times Local ...
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Andrew Breitbart's death brings mix of sadness, glee on Twitter ...
Photo: Andrew Breitbart at home in 2010. Credit: Al Seib / Los Angeles Times. Email: newstips@latimes.com. Twitter: @lanow. Facebook: Los Angeles Times ...
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Sleeping pills linked to higher risk of ...
A new study suggests that the 6% to 10% of Americans who use prescription sleep medications such as zolpidem ( Ambien ), temazepam (Restoril), eszopiclone ...
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Gasoline prices create rough road ...
Delivery truck operators, cab drivers, carpet cleaners and others say their profit or loss is inextricably linked to the price of gas.
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IDEAS, Mar 12, 2012


IDEAS

Our View: C-4 Meetings can help us understand our youth
Jackson Sun
Here is one of the best ideas we have seen in awhile. Henderson County school counselors are holding a series of public forums to talk about significant issues facing today's children. Rapid, unprecedented changes in today's world have created new ...
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China to be more creative with FX reserves - c.bank
Reuters India
"Continued efforts will be made to manage China's reserve assets with new ideas and in a more effective manner," the central bank said before its annual press conference on Monday. "Steady progress will be made to promote capital account convertibility ...
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Toronto Wants to Lure People to Water
Wall Street Journal
By KAREN JOHNSON More than 50 years ago, Toronto built what seemed like a good idea at the time: an elevated expressway along the shore of Lake Ontario to reduce downtown traffic jams. Then, in the 1970s, a wall of condo towers further sealed off a ...
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Wall Street Journal

Smith plus England could be a winning combination
New Zealand Herald
He has made it plain that he wants to coach again, he wants to be top dog somewhere and that his international coaching life did not expire when the All Blacks clambered through the World Cup turmoil. If that destination is England, ...
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World Model UN Conference opens in Vancouver
Vancouver Sun
From Botswana to the Bahamas, more than 2000 aspiring diplomats from around theworld have begun streaming into Vancouver to take part in this week's 2012 WorldModel United Nations Conference. They will be asked to represent the views and interests of ...
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Counterpoint: Tuition hikes are a bad idea, and the arguments for them wrong ...
Montreal Gazette
Increasing tuition is a bad idea, born of the worst impulses and economic ideas. The notion that this is just "the way things have to be" is simply not true. Here are a few of the basic arguments for tuition hikes – and why they're wrong-headed.
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Women rule in Cirque's new world
Montreal Gazette
"What I loved about The Tempest was the idea of an artist, of a shaman, of a kind of queen that rules her island," Paulus said. "But truly it was the relationship with the daughter that got me interested." (Being the mother of two daughters, ...
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Follow the Links: Piracy and Big Media
TidBITS
by Adam C. Engst “Everything is deeply intertwingled,” declared Ted Nelson in his 1974 opus “Computer Lib/Dream Machines.” While many of Nelson's ideas about how a networked hypertext system ought to work (automatic bi-directional links, ...
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Rugby: Cursed by the reign of king Carlos
New Zealand Herald
That was the one season Nick Evans played for the Blues and he arrived in form as the only All Black to have enhanced his standing at the World Cup. Incredibly, the Blues used him more at fullback than at first five. Even perennial optimists will be ...
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More ideas to solve Canada's pension problems
Vancouver Sun
It's a target benefit but day to day the operation is DC. Traditional multi-employer plans in the tax world are treated as DC plans." jchevreau@nationalpost.com © Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun E-mail this Article Print this Article Share this ...
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Tube-inspired cookbooks: Publishing world always eager to help fan eats like ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Publisher John Wiley and Sons' 2007 Sesame Street branded "C is for Cooking" flew off the shelves. For context, publishers today often consider a cookbook modestly successful if it sells 20000 to 30000 copies. "Those books do really well for us, ...
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What Is A Climate Pragmatist To Do In A World Where The Loudest Voices Urge ...
ThinkProgress
By Joe Romm on Mar 7, 2012 at 12:29 pm We live in a very unpragmaticworld, from the perspective of climate change. As Elizabeth Kolbert wrote back in the day: “It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, ...
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ThinkProgress

The next wave of digitization - How to set direction and build capability
Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)
“The coming wave will remake our world all over again. Our research into the behavior of Generation C—people born after 1990 who are just now reaching adulthood and entering the workforce—shows that the trend to global digitization will only ...
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Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)

Apple out of new iPads for Friday delivery
ITWorld Canada
Greg Keizer is a contributor to the International Data Group (IDG) News Service, which publishes global technology stories from bureaus around the world to more than 300 publications in more than 60 countries. - In this second video, the team will look ...
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Staying In: Tips for TV, cooking and more
San Francisco Chronicle
Leba Hertz DVDs/Blu-ray Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story: In this easygoing documentary, the Monopoly players who compete in the world championship are almost quirky enough to qualify for an Errol Morris film. "Under the Boardwalk" doesn't reach ...
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Del Bosque cautious ahead of Euro 2012
Soccerway
Spain followed up their victory at the 2008 European Championships by winning the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Del Bosque believes several of the top teams - such as Italy, England and France - will make it difficult for his side having failed to ...
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Soccerway

Microsoft-IDC report: huge growth in cloud jobs
ITWorld Canada
Cloud computing will create almost 14 million jobs around the world — including more than 70000 in Canada — by 2015, according to an IDC report commissioned by Microsoft Corp. The research company reported that IT departments are spending around ...
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CIOs can be chief innovation officers, too
ITWorld Canada
The position is meant to ensure that there's someone to shepherd innovation activities (ideas, processes and incentive programs) and be responsible for the success or failure of innovation. Given today's business trends, the CIO-squared combo makes a ...
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South Americans on song in Asian Champions League
AFP
Evergrande's Brazilian striker Cleverson Gabriel Cordova and Argentinian midfielder Conca each scored twice at the Jeonju World Cup Stadium, with another Braziliain, Luiz Guilherme da Conceicao Silva, adding the fifth. "This is not the end, ...
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AFP

Senior Executives From Starbucks International and PepsiCo Share Insights ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, March 9, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- On March 22-23, 2012, The Conference Board, the leading global, independent business membership and research association, will bring together C-suite executives from some of the world's leading ...
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Coyne: Where did conservatism go?
Canada.com
I do not see the point of knowing whether a given idea is or is not conservative, or in asking how a conservative would respond to x or y. This strikes me as an odd way to think about the world: to start with a box and try to make your views fit inside ...
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CeBIT: World's biggest tech fair focuses on Trust
Gadget
More than 4 200 exhibitors from 70 countries make CeBIT 2012 in Hannover, Germany, the largest technology fair in the world. We preview the cast range of exhibits, and in particular the keynote theme, "Managing Trust". The keynote theme "Managing ...
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In world of bad breath, occasionally halitosis causes phobia
TheraBreath (blog)
In these instances, just the idea of halitosis causes a phobia of oral odor, one that can be almost paralyzing. It's called halitophobia. Before we talk about it any further, remember: Except in the most extreme and unusual cases, if you think you have ...
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TheraBreath (blog)

50 foodie things to try before you die
New Zealand Herald
Here are 50 brilliant food ideas around Auckland that we highly recommend you try, simply because we know they will all make you happy. 50. Progressive dinners are back and they're fun. Limited only by the number of courses you choose - each one staged ...
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The 24-Hour Apple TV Network
PC Magazine
By John C. Dvorak With so much outrageous preoccupation with all things Apple, I'm stunned that nobody has proposed a 24/7, all-Apple, all-the-time cable TV network. So I will. I'm completely convinced that this network would be hugely successful.
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