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Oops! Geminid meteors peak tonight, not tomorrow
Maryland WeatherYour calendar-challenged weather blogger has an apology to make. In Sunday's Maryland Weather blog post, I listed Tuesday night/Wednesday morning as the peak of the annual Geminid meteor shower. The actual peak, it's finally dawned on me, is Monday night/...Tags: Science, Environmental Pollution, Natural Disasters, Disasters, Disasters and Accidents
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Parking Policy Affects Environment, Local Economies
KickingTiresParking is a major yet overlooked factor in urban design that can have severe environmental and economic impacts, said Donald Shoup, a professor of urban planning at UCLA and author of ???The High Cost of Free Parking.??? In a recent......Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), Washington, DC, Vehicles
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Football recruiting notes | Another wild week for locals such as Garrett, Morgan
Last week was wild when it came to scholarship offers for a handful of Class of 2014 players, as more schools outside the Midwest are discovering Illinois this winter. Plainfield South outside linebacker Clifton Garrett received offers last week from...
Tags: Iowa Hawkeyes, Virginia Tech, Florida State University, Football, Indiana Hoosiers
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Mira Costa High volleyball wins three of five sets to beat Loyola
For one invigorating night, there was a truce in the seemingly never-ending feud between public and private high schools. On Friday night, the best of high school sports was on display in the annual neighborhood volleyball match between Southern Section...
Tags: Manhattan (New York City), High School Sports
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With Ben Howland, UCLA could have been on pedestal, ended in abyss
The saddest part of the Ben Howland saga at UCLA is not that a decent guy and good coach got fired. He's a big boy. He'll be fine. Give it a couple of years and he'll have another team in Pauley Pavilion, rendering UCLA black-and-not-so-Bruins-blue....
Tags: Shabazz Muhammad, College Basketball, NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, National Collegiate Athletic Association, College Sports
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Troubled youths deserve more effective discipline than suspension
The limits on student suspensions approved by the Los Angeles Unified school board this week may burnish the district's progressive credentials, putting L.A. in the forefront of a national shift away from zero-tolerance policies that ban kids from...
Tags: Teachers, F-bomb Dropping, Students, Teaching and Learning, Human Interest
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A whole lot of maybes and might-have-beens for the Lakers
addCustomPlayer('1189yw62t2l8f1q7dcyl28cduy', '', '', 600, 418, 'perf1189yw62t2l8f1q7dcyl28cduy', 'eplayer15'); My neurologist Dr. Doojin Kim said he could find nothing between my ears. "Nothing to be worried about," he said in offering great news...
Tags: Rudy Gay, James Harden, UCLA Bruins, Mike D'Antoni, Memphis Grizzlies
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Hungry for a group to safely deliver leftover food to charities
On a recent evening, students at Pomona College feasted on chicken pot pie, steamed veggies, biscuits and rice. And, as is often the case, there were plenty of leftovers in the dining hall, enough for about 100 extra meals. Those leftovers, however,...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Colleges and Universities, Human Interest, University of California, Berkeley, University of Texas at Austin
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New AEG chief executive has own style
The walls and shelves of Dan Beckerman's downtown Los Angeles office speak more about his largely unknown but deep involvement in AEG's success than Beckerman himself is comfortable saying. Boxing gloves vie for space with a football from the defunct...
Tags: Dean Lombardi, AEG, Philip Anschutz, Los Angeles Lakers, Corporate Officers
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Another side of illegal immigration
Denise Panaligan, a UCLA sophomore, didn't tell her mother where she was headed Wednesday morning. She knew that if she told the truth, her mother would worry. Panaligan, in blue jeans and white T-shirt, boarded a bus and traveled to Pershing...
Tags: Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, DREAM Act, Justice System, Colleges and Universities
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Conference tournaments take their chances in Las Vegas
The last Big East basketball tournament as we know it hits New York's stage this week at Madison Square Garden. What sportswriter Dan Wetzel recently described as "the most honest event in college sports" is breaking up after a messy divorce that will...
Tags: Shabazz Muhammad, College Basketball, NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Entertainment, College Football
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A tribe's favorite son comes up big
SOBOBA INDIAN RESERVATION, Calif. — On a cracked and weed-choked court buffeted by mountain winds and watched by coyotes, the basketballs seem to grow on trees. The scrubby landscape in the ravine that spreads behind the rusted pole and solitary...
Tags: College Basketball, Pneumonia, Rentals, National Collegiate Athletic Association, College Sports
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