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The Paris Photo art fair comes to Los Angeles: Photography's new aim
The photograph is almost famous: a shot by Kevin Winter of actress Jennifer Lawrence that caught her just as she stumbled on her way to receive an Oscar this year. The small drawings hanging beneath are less familiar: delicate images by P.E. Sharpe of a...
Tags: Fine Artists, Artists, Paris (France), Photography, Arts
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Bay Area air pollution reaches Devils Postpile National Monument
That fresh, pine-scented mountain air that you happily breathe in the Sierra Nevada could be hazardous to your health. Samples taken by federal scientists in Devils Postpile National Monument, southeast of Yosemite National Park, show that ozone...
Tags: Conservation, Environmental Issues, Science and Technology, Standards, Environmental Pollution
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Sierra Nevada toad and frog could get federal protection
For thousands of years, Yosemite toads thrived 10,000 feet high in the Sierra Nevada range, emerging from partially frozen lakes in spring to reproduce and eat enough insects to survive another season of hibernation under the ice. Since the 1960s,...
Tags: Conservation, Wildlife, Endangered Species, Environmental Issues
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Now in Congress: Bills to expand Yosemite for first time in 75 years
WASHINGTON -- Yosemite National Park would grow by about 1,600 acres, its first expansion in 75 years, to shield its western boundary from potential development under legislation introduced in Congress Tuesday. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who...
Tags: Conservation, Dianne Feinstein, Politics, Barbara Boxer, Environmental Issues
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Ambitious plan would remake Yosemite National Park
The majestic landscape of Yosemite National Park — carved out of granite and shaped by powerful natural forces over the eons — is timeless and untouchable. Other attractions in the park … not so much. Some of Yosemite's much-loved...
Tags: Swimming, Travel, Rivers, Manufacturing and Engineering, Gardens and Parks
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California lawmakers call for expansion of Yosemite National Park
SACRAMENTO -- State lawmakers are supporting a proposal to expand Yosemite National Park by 1,600 acres, restoring land stripped of its protection by Congress in 1906. The state Senate approved a resolution this week that asks the federal government...
Tags: Land Resources, Travel, Conservation Fund, U.S. Congress, Gardens and Parks
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Hope fills the air at Walk MS event
Bill Bisch was in the midst of throwing a football during a family Thanksgiving game when his legs gave out and he fell face down. The 57-year-old San Juan Capistrano resident was quickly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). "MS changed my life...
Tags: Israel, Diseases and Illnesses, First Aid, Health and Medical Professionals, Multiple Sclerosis
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Bus that crashed near Yosemite was based in Bay Area
The California Highway Patrol is continuing its investigation of a charter tour bus that crashed Saturday evening outside Yosemite National Park. Seventeen people were aboard the vehicle; 15 passengers and a tour guide sustained minor to moderate...Tags: Tour Operations Industry, The Happiest News!, Human Interest, Disasters and Accidents, Hospitals and Clinics
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Captured moments on display at airport
As a lawyer, Jennifer McGrath's world can be a little black and white. The city attorney for Huntington Beach brings color into it with her photography, which is on display in the Thomas F. Riley Terminal at John Wayne Airport. McGrath's photographs...
Tags: John Wayne, Lawyers, Arts, Arts and Culture, Crime, Law and Justice
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McManus: D.C. doubles down on the sequester
The sequester, those $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts scheduled to hit the federal government on March 1, was designed to be stupid. In 2011, when President Obama proposed the scheme and both parties in Congress embraced it, their...
Tags: Unemployment Benefits, White House, Politics, Head Start, U.S. Congress
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Springtime in Yosemite Valley
FrameworkWith the days getting longer and the temperatures rising, the snow pack in the high country is slowly melting and the rivers and waterfalls are starting their annual show of splendor and might....
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