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Where we live fuels a divide
Sun StaffThere was a time when Walter Sondheim Jr. held fast to the notion that racially desegregated schools would give way to a racially integrated society. That was 1954. He admits now that he "should have known better." Sondheim was president of the Baltimore...Tags: Randallstown, James Rouse, Minority Groups, Real Estate Sellers, Hispanic and Latino Americans
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Book Review: 'Big Roads' by Earl Swift
Special to the Los Angeles TimesBig Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways Earl Swift Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 375 pp., $27.00 Veteran journalist Earl Swift's well-focused and lively history of American...Tags: Local Government, Book, Automotive Equipment, Minority Groups, Heart and Circulatory System
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'Fit for a King: The Merle Armitage Book of Food' at LACMA
Daily DishVintage cookbook "Fit for a King: The Merle Armitage Book of Food" at LACMA's "California Design" exhibition.... -
For Americans, to infinity and beyond
President Obama tried to use the announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden to get Americans to think big again. The successful end of a 10-year manhunt, he declared last week, was a "testament to the greatness of our country and the determination of...Tags: NASA, Space Programs, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Philosophy, Barack Obama
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Jasper Johns is first studio artist in 34 years to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
Culture MonsterObama to confer 2011 Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday; arts honorees are Yo-Yo Ma and Jasper Johns, the first visual artist to win since 1977.... -
What's the future of 'The Infrastructural City' of L.A.
Architecture CriticThe timing could hardly be better for "The Infrastructural City," a new collection of essays on Los Angeles edited by Kazys Varnelis, director of the Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University. A book with a title like that, unless written by Mike...Tags: Architecture, Book, Conservation, Government, Rem Koolhaas
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Buildings the case
Wall Street JournalGreat architects are the enemies of history. They aspire to erase the visible past and to superimpose their own vision of the future. Ever since Baron Haussmann declared war on the back alleys of Paris in the mid-19th Century, replacing them with wide...Tags: Greenwich Village, Death, Robert Moses, Building Material, Architecture
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1 in 6 Floridians foreign-born
Sentinel Staff WriterIn a place where just less than a third of the population was born in state, Florida continues to be dominated by people from elsewhere in the country as well as elsewhere in the world. About 17 percent of the state's population was foreign-born in 2000,...Tags: Immigration, Sweetwater, Migration, Singapore, Hialeah
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Where time is of the essence
In a single small display case holding several mechanical clocks, the Museum of Science and Industry has neatly encapsulated humanity's progressively more complicated relationship with one of its most basic inventions -- time. The oldest timepiece is...Tags: University of Chicago, Death, NASA, Museum of Science and Industry, Albert Einstein
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Still Segregated
Courant Staff WriterAfter a decade in which the minority population of Hartford's suburbs doubled, the region remains one of the most segregated in the nation for Latinos, according to the Census Bureau's most extensive study ever of residential segregation. Blacks in...Tags: Poverty, Minority Groups, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Demographics, Tampa
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Integrations Legacy
223-5683Anna Paul, a 10th grader at Jamestown High School, recently asked classmates what they thought of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling for a story she was planning to write for the school newspaper. They agreed that integration had been...Tags: Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), State University of New York, Teaching and Learning, Civil Rights, Minority Groups
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