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TV packed with 'girls' this season
Fall TV: Where the men are men and the women are girls. Three new comedies, "2 Broke Girls" on CBS, "New Girl" on Fox and HBO's "Girls," revolve around female twentysomethings living in New York City. They join, of course, "Bad Girls Club" the Oxygen...
Tags: Television, Oxygen (tv network), Dance, Arts and Culture, Bad Girls Club (tv program)
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Better vision another benefit from playing outdoors
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterChildren who play more outdoors are smarter, leaner and stronger than kids more inclined toward indoor activities, and a new study finds they have another advantage: They're less likely to suffer from nearsightedness, in which objects in the distance...Tags: Amblyopia, Nearsightedness, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Entertainment, Gaming
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2011 general election candidate profiles
news@jessaminejournal.comWith the general election scheduled for Nov. 8, The Jessamine Journal finishes its two-week profile on the many candidates. This week, using information form the candiate’s websites, The Journal will profile the races for agriculture commissioner...Tags: Mining, Duke University, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Public Officials, Tompkinsville
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Judge rules that indicted document collector can go home pending trial
A federal judge rejected Friday a last-ditch effort by prosecutors to keep Barry H. Landau behind bars while the New York collector awaits trial on charges he pulled off one of the country's biggest theft of national memorabilia over a span of years. The...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), England, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Central Park
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Keen video-gamers' brains may reward them more
REUTERSTeenagers who spend a lot of time on video-games have different structures and activity levels in areas of the brain that are linked to reward, scientists have found, suggesting they get more out of gaming than people who tend to play less. In a study...Tags: Germany, Behavioral Conditions, Addiction, Medical Research, Belgium
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Har Gobind Khorana dies at 89; biologist, chemist won Nobel Prize
Har Gobind Khorana, who rose from poverty in rural India to become a giant of modern biology, winning the Nobel Prize in 1968 for work that helped decipher the genetic code and explain how cells make proteins, died Nov. 9 in Concord, Mass. He was 89....Tags: Biology, India, Entertainment Events, Human Body, England
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Greenhouse gases, water vapor and you
GreenspaceSeveral readers pointed out that water vapor is the biggest contributor to global warming, which was not mentioned in last week’s post about the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s release of its Annual Greenhouse Gas Index,... -
Caltech tops prestigious world university rankings
L.A. NOWCaltech tops Harvard in global university rankings, according to British higher education publication.... -
Saturday in L.A.: Peter Gizzi and the Poetic Research Bureau
Jacket CopyPoet Peter Gizzi reads Saturday at a gallery filled with art by Richard Kraft in a show that connects the artist and poet.... -
DNA, Mladic and the science of justice in the former Yugoslavia
Despite his efforts to stave off his long-overdue date with justice, indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic appeared before a panel of judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague on Friday. Soon he will stand trial for...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Human Interest, War Crimes, Columbia University, Social Issues
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Technology can both improve and hinder family relationships, survey says
L.A. Times Tech BlogCambridge University has released a report on how information and communication technology affects family life. The study analyzed questionnaires from 1,000 families each in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and China. The conclusion:...
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