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Outdoor buffs must exercise caution on smoggy days
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSMOG, shmog. Exercising outdoors is a way of life in Southern California, and die-hard runners, walkers, cyclists and skaters aren't going to let a brown layer of air stop them. But maybe they should. The Southland is heading into its roughest air...Tags: Heart Disease, Medicine, Health and Safety at School, Diseases, Scranton
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'Harry Potter' prequel to be auctioned off
An 800-word Harry Potter prequel is one of 13 card-sized works to be sold at a charity auction in the British capital. Waterstone's Booksellers Ltd. says the cream-colored A5 papers -- each slightly bigger than a postcard -- were distributed to 13...Tags: Tom Stoppard, Harry Potter, Doris Lessing, Fiction, Auction Service
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A dark mirror
"I've been in and out of bughouses, yes," Richard Yates once said, with the matter-of-fact honesty that characterizes his work. He's the bleakest yet most poignant and troubling of modern American writers. Yates was a manic-depressive, and an alcoholic,...Tags: Sam Mendes, Ecosystems, Illnesses, Family, History
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* Paris Hilton's little brother, Barron Hilton, was arrested Tuesday in Los Angeles on charges of driving under the influence, authorities said. The Associated Press reported that Hilton, 18, was released on $20,000 bail after he registered a blood-...Tags: Miami Beach, Newspapers, Mass Media, Celebrity, Volusia County
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'Five Skies' by Ron Carlson
Five Skies A Novel Ron Carlson Viking: 244 pp., $23.95 May 13, 2007 By Susan Salter Reynolds Ron Carlson is waiting for the cable guy. It's been more than a week now and he's trying a cowboy tactic, quietly saying exactly when he'll be available --...Tags: Albertson's Incorporated, Fiction, Motorcycling, Landforms, Literature
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Picking a winner? Harder than you think!
Special to the TimesBy Marianne Wiggins The winners of the National Book Awards were announced this month -- did anyone notice? Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, Tony, Golden Globe: award shows deemed worthy of TV. But what about the poor relation at the table -- books? Anybody want to...Tags: Thomas Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy, Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison, Mary Gordon
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Hideous -- or intriguing?
Tribune staff reporterAs Chicago refashions its Olympic logo, design and marketing experts offer their critiques of other cities' logos. When Britain's Lord Sebastian Coe proclaimed, "We don't do bland, this is not a bland city," he wasn't kidding. After his London 2012...Tags: Houston Astros, Culture, Architecture, Chicago Skyline, Sears Tower
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Beauty at your fingertips in Sanibel and Captiva
Chicago TribuneA while back, in a seashell-cleaning hut on Sanibel Island, a man was heard telling a woman, "It's all about the shells, isn't it? That's why we come here." "Well, actually," the woman replied, somewhat sheepishly, "we came here to get away from the...Tags: Miami Beach, Meteorological Disasters, Hillsborough County, Disasters, Volusia County
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Imitation of life
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLET me be completely honest: I can't make up my mind about "The Lay of the Land." For the last few weeks, I've wrestled with it and have been alternately indifferent and enthralled. It's a big novel, nearly 500 pages, the third volume in Richard Ford's...Tags: Middlesex County (Connecticut), Public Holidays, Minority Groups, Philosophy, Fiction
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Connecting with the isolated through film
Special to The TimesNearly a decade ago, Isabel Coixet found herself on an oil rig off the southern coast of Chile. An aspiring if impecunious filmmaker, she was there to shoot an industrial film for Shell Oil. The job was neither glamorous nor idyllic, but in the weeks...Tags: Dylan Thomas, Atom Egoyan, Robert Altman, Tim Robbins, Carson McCullers
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