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Glowing praise: 3 scientists win Nobel for green jellyfish protein that lights up cells, genes
AP Science WriterThree U.S.-based scientists won a Nobel Prize on Wednesday for turning a glowing green protein from jellyfish into a revolutionary way to watch the tiniest details of life within cells and living creatures. Osamu Shimomura, a Japanese citizen who works...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Boston, Colleges and Universities, Medical Research, Animal Science
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Elements of Style
While New York has its clannish brownstones and San Francisco its overplayed Victorian veneer, Los Angeles is a deliberate fracas of residential styles or, rather, a collection of self-realizations from individuals who happen to share the same streets....Tags: Ralph Lauren, Hancock Park, Homes, Herman Miller Incorporated, Frank Lloyd Wright
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Oregon: In the valley of wine
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterVideo: Two minutes in Oregon wine country McMinnville, Ore. Blame the volcanoes of the Northwest that sent so much lava roaring through this valley about 16 million years ago and set the stage. Or blame the glaciers of Montana for forcing floods,...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Glaciers, Tourism and Leisure, Volcanoes, Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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Villages' Morse acts as magnet for GOP
Sentinel Staff WriterTHE VILLAGES Presidential elections often thrust this retiree playground into the national spotlight. And this election isn't any different. Republican stars such as Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who campaigned here last month,...Tags: Dick Cheney, Rudy Giuliani, Lady Lake, Executive Branch, Campaign Finance
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Getting A Grip On Germs
I am about to join Howard Hughes, Michael Jackson and Donald Trump in the weird department. All three men are obsessed with the prospect of catching more germs than necessary, and I am about to join their club. I was driven to this point not by wanting...Tags: Cameron Diaz, Randy Moss, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson
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Vineyards: Chris Reynolds asks 'Where am I?'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOnce upon a time, these hills were known for turkey farms, hazelnuts and the occasional UFO. Now this place is about grapes, grapes, grapes. (And impractical aircraft. Remember the Spruce Goose, that big wooden plane that Howard Hughes built way back... -
Scientists switch cells' identity
NEW YORK — Scientists say they have transformed one type of cell into another in mice, a step toward the growing of replacement tissues to treat diseases. The cell identity switch turned ordinary pancreas cells into the rarer type that churns out...Tags: Medical Research
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Plan to convert an empty airplane hangar into a film studio is taking off
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterPlans for a massive indoor movie studio are underway in Long Beach, where the buyers of a former aerospace plant say they will build a $500-million soundstage facility that would rival the largest established Hollywood studios in scope. A group of...Tags: Manhattan Beach (Los Angeles, California), Santa Clarita (Los Angeles, California), Universal Orlando, Boeing Co., Long Beach (Los Angeles, California)
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For sale: A nest fit for the world's largest 'goose'
Tribune NewspapersLOS ANGELES—A chunk of Howard Hughes' Los Angeles is for sale: the cavernous hangar where the aviation mogul built his Spruce Goose aircraft that flew once—for about one minute—in 1947. It was wartime when Hughes Aircraft Co. got a...Tags: Studios, Government Contracts, Long Beach (Los Angeles, California), Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Property
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NOW PLAYING: A guide to area art house and second-run theaters
NOW PLAYING •indicates a capsule review from Chicago Tribune archives. ♦indicates a film that is not reviewed, but of interest. Bank of America Cinema 4901 W. Irving Park Rd. 312-904-9442 •'City Lights' **** (U.S.; Charles Chaplin,...Tags: Al Capone, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Fox, Film Festivals, Larry Wachowski
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Deaths elsewhere
MICHAEL GREGG, 78 Sounded early alarm on AIDS Dr. Michael B. Gregg, an epidemiologist and former editor of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a federal medical bulletin that published early warnings of the impending AIDS crisis in 1981, died...Tags: Death and Dying, AIDS, Newspaper and Magazine, Minority Groups, Health Organizations
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