Immediately after 911 you got the sense that the one-year commemoratives were already being planned — once a country famously lacking a memory, America has bec
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The first of a new, biweekly column on science from the author of The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace and Pythagoras’ Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender Wars
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The signs on the house speakers facing the dance floor at the Roxy say no stage diving: “If you dive, you go home.” This rule generally applies t
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WASHINGTON — In one of the most important cases of the term, the U.S. Supreme Court last week considered whether it is cruel and unusual punishment for the sta
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From September 11 onward, a sickening vision has gnawed at the back of our thoughts: that in some city, possibly our own, there is a deserted apartment whose rent is
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Photo by Ted Soqui
The last time the media took the political temperature of Compton was way back in June, after machine-boss Mayor Omar Bradley was bested by chall
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We want to tell the American children that Afghanistan feels your pain.
—official statement from Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, Afghanistan’s Taliban ambass
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Don’t even talk about closure. Forget liability suits, extradition warrants and all the other make-it-better palliatives that grow out of disaster, American-s
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Heat got you listless? Well, here’s a list — a list so cold it gives Björk the shivers. It’ll give you brain freeze faster than a Mountain Dew Sl
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A relaxed but determined Richard Ceballos sips his java inside a Pasadena coffeehouse and reflects on life as a whistle blower.
An 11-year veteran of the L.A. C
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”Neighbors are pretty good at ratting on other people,“ Sergio Valdez assured an appreciative audience in the echoey Silverlake Recreation Center last we
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This article is part one of a three-part series.
BELINDA ROLOFF WAS WORRIED ABOUT HER SON. It wasn't that his Sacramento-area pu
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