Archive for Sunday, November 30, 1997

• Base Closure Turns Into Opportunity for Region By Matthew Yi

• Adults Must Send a Message of Responsibility on Alcohol By Rob Hall

• In Search of Eternal Rest in Pasadena By Richard Winton

• Scientists Track How Anti-Cancer Gene Functions

• Vision 2020: Charting a City’s Future By Tim Hodge

• Electric Motorcycles Debut in Southland By Nicholas Riccardi

• Pedestrian Killed on Pacific Coast Highway By Scott Steepleton

• El Concilio Receives Amgen Grant

• On Alert for Telemarketing Fraud - Task force enlists volunteers to combat scams against elderly

• Business Council’s Bottom Line: Get Going on El Toro By Lorenza Munoz

• Heartfelt Gratitude - Boy Thriving 5 Years After Transplant, Public’s Support By Bonnie Hayes

• Plastic Surgeon Linked to Spate of Infections By Tina Nguyen

• How to Keep the Fall Out of Holiday Season By Frank Messina

• Finding Shelter in Santa Clarita

• * Robert C. Fish; Retired Planner for Gas Company

• Center’s Height Still Concerns Residents By Dawn Hobbs

• Hopeful Signs of a Truce on Thousand Oaks Council

• Sad Saga of a Will, Wealth and Suicide By Ann W. O'Neill

• CSUN Loss Seen as a Sign of the Early ’90s By Nancy Hill-Holtzman and Radha Krishnan Thampi

• Stench of Mammoth Hog Operation Divides Farming Community By Mike Carter

• Nuclear Lab Showcases Mixing Arms Control and Development By Sue Major Holmes

• Tiny Steps Forward By Fred Alvarez

• Hope Rises From the Rubble

• Mourners Pay Respects to Slain Monroe Student

• Mountain Lion Sightings More Growl Than Bite

• Cooking Up a Play Based on Brownie Guide By Bob Pool

• Physician Advocates Mandatory AIDS Testing By Steve Chawkins

• Cities at the Center of Change By Shelby Grad

• Reaching Out to Steer Runaways From the Street By Robert Ourlian and John Canalis

• Tragedy a Catalyst for Good - School buses will be safer under law pushed by O.C. family

• It’s Time to Bring El Toro Debate Back Down to Earth - Officials must admit airport bias, weigh alternatives

• Suspects Still Sought in Drive-By Shooting By Coll Metcalfe

• San Gabriel Mayor Takes a Hand in Cost Containment By Yung Kim

• History of Hollywood Madams Is Long, Lurid By Cecilia Rasmussen

• Latino Middle Class Growing in Suburbia By George Ramos

• Bursting at the Seams

• All Septuplets Now Upgraded to Fair, Breathing on Own

• Nurturing Thanks, Giving All Year Long By Rabbi Arnold Rachlis

• A Consuming Interest in Horse Meat By Scott Harris

• Ember from Fireplace Blamed in House Fire By Scott Steepleton

• Obituaries

• Once Lost, He’s Found His Calling By Dana Parsons

• Getting Down to Business

• Pesticide Spraying Near School Worries Parents, Teachers By Richard Cole

• For 7 Siblings Separated by WWII, Decades Fade as New Memories Are Made at Reunion By Lisa Addison

• Latino Gang Truce in Valley Is Praised Despite Rise in Homicides By Efrain Hernandez Jr.

• Making ‘Death With Dignity’ Reality By Gary N. Stern

• Daytime Curfew Clamps Down on Rights of Parents, Students By Ken Williams

• A Showdown for City Hall Squabbling By Miguel Bustillo

• He Took a Funny Little Bird Under His Wing By Steve Chawkins

• Fired College Teacher Revs Up for New Trial By Deborah Belgum

• Two Men Shot and Wounded in Lancaster

• No One Hurt in House Blaze Blamed on Fireplace Ember By Scott Steepleton

• Pols Getting Personal a Good Sign

• CSU System Needs to Implement Higher Standards for Admission By Shirley Svorny

• Bursting at the Seams

• A Textbook Case of Plenty By Amy Pyle

• Why the Hurry With Gifted Kids?

• ENVIRONMENT

• Free Clinic Selected to Receive $5,000 Grant By Scott Steepleton

• Refund ‘Tracers’ Ordered to Stop By Lew Sichelman

• Garden Events

• High Water

• Congress Drops Ball on PMI Reform By Kenneth R. Harney

• Suddenly, Pair Is Game for L.A. By Ruth Ryon

• A Century of Charm By Jane Chafin

• Breathe Easier With Room Air Cleaner By James Dulley

• Notice of Termination Must Be Dated

• Breaking the (Dress) Code By Lindsay Marcotta

• Hangin’ With Hansby By S. Irene Virbila

• Retro Racket By Joe Sehee

• It Was 20 Years Ago Today

• The Man Behind the Curtain By Greg Braxton

• The L.A. Files By Josh Sens

• Wrapping Up the Holiday

• That Girl By Renee Vogel

• Cheesy Riders

• Breakfast is served! By Michael Walker

• The Big Sneeze–and Other Scary Tales By Patt Morrison

• LIGHTS OUT By Ed Leibowitz

• HORSE SENSE By Ann Connors

• Marina Still Enjoys the Road By Michael Itagaki

• Romar’s Waves Caught Unawares By Steve Henson

• Eagles Need Fifth Game to Advance By Melanie Neff

• SOUTHLAND ROUNDUP By Lon Eubanks

• USC Makes It More Difficult Than Need Be By Greg Sandoval

• Foreman Promoters Launch Protest By Steve Springer

• Agassi, Sargsian Put Friendship Aside Today By David Wharton

• World Cup Field Complete After Iran Beats Australia

• Burning the Midnight Wagering By Beth Harris

• Goatborg By Julie Cart

• NFL’s Probe Has an Impact By Steve Wilstein

• STINGRAYS TODAY By Earl Gustkey

• Robinson Likes His Newest Line By Lonnie White

• CBS to Say Sayonara to Olympics By Mike Penner

• Hart Gets Flip Side Again, Hits Road

• Another Running of Bulls in Chicago By Mark Heisler

• Antelope Valley Stumbles By Lance O'Fallon

• Flintridge Sacred Heart Outlasts Marlborough By Lauren Peterson

• A Look at the Bowls

• Lehman Picks Up Some ‘Chunk’ Change By Thomas Bonk

• Growing While He’s Growling By Mike Downey

• Shakin’ Up the Triple Crown By Andrew Beyer

• Another Manning in the Wings By Mary Foster

• Cicciari Teaching Valuable Lessons By Eric Sondheimer

• By Going Out With Leaders, Fleshman Comes In Second By John Ortega

• Prep Football

• SOUTHLAND ROUNDUP

• No. 1 Rancho Alamitos Upset By Mike Wojciechowski

• No. 1 Tennessee Defeats No. 14 Stanford, 88-70 By Earl Gustkey

• Ice Dogs Fall to Thunder in Shootout

• Volunteers Work Hard for First SEC East Title

• Nordhoff’s Runaway State Victory Is Simple as 2-3-4 By John Ortega

• Eastern Washington Advances

• Calabasas Gets Roughed Up By Peter Yoon

• CAPSULES AND RANKINGS By Mark Heisler

• Reed’s Role Getting Bigger By Tim Kawakami

• Nittany Lions Get Run Over

• Time Didn’t Stop for the Dinosaurs, but It Did for Him By Mal Florence

• It’s About Three on Threes By Scott Howard-Cooper

• Notre Dame Needs Some Late Heroics to Escape Hawaii With a 23-22 Victory

• Calgary Sneaks By Ducks By Elliott Teaford

• North Hollywood Girls Get Tough Against Dorsey, 70-61

• Canada Takes Gritty Approach By Helene Elliott

• Rigley Leads Waves Over No. 5 Florida

• Jerry and Geri Show Proves a Winner in Citation Handicap By Bob Mieszerski

• Trojans Forced to Wait for Bruin Bid By Robyn Norwood

• Douglass Watches UC Irvine Step Back By Chris Foster

• Smith Helps Columbus Extend Winning Streak

• Malone Takes Over Down Stretch in Utah’s Victory By Chris Baker

• Seifert Eyes Coaching Return By Dennis Georgatos

• Winning Getting Infectious By Lonnie White

• Bailey Rallies Bruins to Win

• Woodbridge, Costa Mesa Win Team Titles By Paul Halpin

• Goaltender Can’t Save Ducks From Frustrating 3-2 Defeat By Elliott Teaford

• TODAY’S GAMES

• Second Time Might Be the Charm for Toner By Bob Mieszerski

• Orange Lutheran Charges Past Santa Barbara Bishop Diego By Ryan T. Blystone

• It’s a Tough Road Ahead for Trojans By Greg Sandoval

• Northridge Delivers a Knockout By Steve Henson

• Ocean View Bumps Off Yosemite By Dan Arritt

• Yucaipa Girls Win Third Consecutive Title By John Ortega

• Barry Sits Out the Loss to Jazz By Chris Baker

• Knicks Really Get Defensive in Shutting Down Phoenix

• World Cup Field Complete After Iran Beats Australia

• UCLA Women Trounced, 8-0, by Notre Dame By Grahame L. Jones

• Emotional Ending for Robinson

• Fullerton Produces Winning 1-2 Punch By Lon Eubanks

• Bethel Christian Falls in Shootout By Dave Desmond

• Paraclete Loaded for Big Bear By Steve Galluzzo

• Snubbed Messier Responds

• Texas, Arkansas Make Coaching Changes

• Gleason Brings Home a Rare Gem By Paul Halpin

• Arizona Gets Its Second Wind and an Easy Victory

• Sebastian Paces Concordia to Tournament Win

• No. 16 Utah Gives Irvine’s Douglass Refresher Course By Chris Foster

• Westlake Makes Own Statement By Mike Bresnahan

• Seizinger, Germans Superior in Super-G By Chris Dufresne

• Golden West Earns Spot in State Tournament

• Kariya Confirms His Olympic Ties By Elliott Teaford

• TIMES NFL WRITER T.J. SIMERS POSES–AND ANSWERS–THE BURNING QUESTIONS ON GAME DAY By T J. Simers

• Davis Flies to Bruins’ Rescue By Tim Kawakami

• 17 Injured in I-15 Crashes; Lanes Shut for Over 5 Hours

• ‘Burnt by the Sun’ By Kenneth Turan

• Concert Will Honor Newport Crash Victim

• Rebel Bombs Draw Israeli Retaliation

• Penchant for Pens By Michael Quintanilla

• The Art of Aunthood By Beverly Beyette

• New Home Prescribed for an Obscure Museum By Laura Meckler

• Mexicans March in Silence to Protest Soaring Crime By James F. Smith

• Aerial Tram in Desert City Gives a Different Perspective to Winter By Diana Marcum

• SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS By Mary Rourke

• For Newport, Scars of Crash Heal Slowly By Robert Ourlian

• Geologist Cites Evidence of Life on Mars

• Smart Aleck

• Scientists Identify Gene That Causes Type of Skin Cancer

• Reforms Seen as Key to Asia’s Fiscal Recovery By Tom Petruno

• A Bubbly Brew By Michael Quintanilla

• A Portrait of Desperation: Risking Everything for Their Addiction By J M. Hirsch

• Somalis Find Home, Hope in Minnesota By Chris Tomlinson

• Prime-Time Flicks By Kevin Thomas

• Lions Left With Little Room to Roam By T. Christian Miller

• OPEC Oil Cartel Agrees to Raise Production Limit

• Good Deeds By Kevin Baxter

• Can They Hack It? By Michael J. Ybarra

• High-Tech Police Vehicle Targets Dangerous Drivers By Alice Reid

• Grappling With Crime Wave on the Web By Jack Nelson

• The 3rd Street Charmer By Patric Kuh

• How Are We Thankful? Let Us Count the Ways By Anne Beatts

• Dozens Hurt in Bethlehem Clashes

• Bicyclist Killed by Car on PCH

• Children’s March Seeks Ban on Mines

• McCormick: The Power and the Story By Dennis Mclellan

• ‘Executive Decision’ By Kenneth Turan

• What’s a Millennium Without New Fears and Reassurances? By Matt Crenson

• TURN ON, TUNE IN OR MISS OUT By Steven Linan

• Czech Premier Resigns Amid Finance Scandal

• Back on Track By Irene Lacher

• Fossil Find Linked to Mammal Evolution By Geof Becker

• Climbing Commando Brings Hope to India’s Truly Downtrodden: Girls By Hema Shukla

• Moon Seeks to Be Wedded to American Life By Paul Richter

• Old Enemy Stalks Kids of Privilege By Jesse Katz

• Global Warming Triggers Renewed Interest in Nuclear Power By Charles J. Hanley

• The Anti-Mall Crawl By Michael Quintanilla

• UC Researchers Expand Tijuana Lead Study By Dana Calvo

• Christmas Chestnuts Thaw the Heart By Susan King

• Congolese Army Units Clash; 18 Reported Killed

• A Mother’s Plan to End Welfare Reliance By Carla Rivera

• Phoenix Nurtures a Business Oasis By Marla Dickerson

• Orangutan Gets a Helpful Prescription By David Montgomery and Saud Abu Ramadan

• Fund Drought Perils Effort to Boost India Crops By Krishnan Guruswamy

• Getty Center Is More Than Sum of Its Parts By Suzanne Muchnic

• Bodybuilders’ Image Problem May Be Mental By Ira Dreyfuss

• The List By Janet Kinosian

• Opposition in Taiwan Gains in Vote

• Cougar Protection Effort Falls Short, Critics Maintain By T. Christian Miller

• Smart Aleck

• Jason Project Scores Hits With Science Classes By Joe Wheelan

• Iraq Eases Stance on Lifting of Sanctions

• Iowa Births Are the Talk of the Town

• Red Tide Kills Fish in Corpus Christi Bay

• ‘Living in Oblivion’ By Kenneth Turan

• Snow-Clogged Colorado Roads Reopen and Travelers Move On

• China Shifts Tack in Birth Control By Renee Schoof

• State Board May Return Math Classes to the Basics By Richard Lee Colvin

• A Different Kind of Heavy Metal Fan By Joe Edwards

• Professor Compares a Violent Tribe to Gangs By Faye Fiore

• World’s Greatest Railway Bazaar Looks for Green Light in 1999 By Denis D. Gray

• SHOWS FOR YOUNGSTERS AND THEIR PARENTS TOO By Lee Harris

• Helicopter Problem Slows U.N. Somali Rescue Bid

• Movie to Tape By Kevin Thomas

• Clinton Hails Volunteer Work, Asks Citizens’ Help

• Former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young Dies at 79

• ‘Going My Way’ By Michael Wilmington

• The Asian Contagion

• Mathematics Program Is Sum Fun By David Colker

• Study Aims to Aid Children With Asthma By Marcida Dodson

• Laugh Lines

• Dogs Help Parkinson’s Disease Patients By David Kinney

• Stick-O-Matic By Michael Quintanilla

• China’s River Dolphins Face Doom By Rone Tempest

• Sydney Tries Its Luck With Casino

• Festivals, Feasts & Fairs By Amy A. Weber

• Wild West Island By Susan E. James

• It’s All Downhill From Courmayeur, Italy By Karin Dominello

• Escapist Movies

• Propeller Mishaps Sideline Two Ships

• A Spa for Hedonists By Laurie Garrett

• Japanese Museum Is Underground Hit

• Traveler’s Note …

• Cutting the Red Tape to Get Jobs Abroad By Lucy Izon

• Readers Recommend

• Maui’s Place of Pampering By Barbara Schuler

• My Best Shot

• Bay Walks By John Mckinney

• Silver Spoon for Kids and London Tea Too

• Newsletters Are Priceless–If You Do Your Homework By Christopher Reynolds

• Ticketmaster’s Tough CEO Ready for the Next Act By Mark Saylor

• Employees Sue Over Rights as More Firms Require Noncompete Contracts By Evelyn Nussenbaum

• Life Insurance 101

• The Night May Be a Long One, but Japan’s Sun Will Rise Again By James Flanigan

• Bank You Kindly By Don Lee

• What Social Security Needs Is a ‘Publicization’ By Robert Eisner

• Where to Find a Fee-Only Financial Planner? Trade Group Will Provide a Free List By Carla Lazzareschi

• Loyalty Problem Might Be Solved With a Conversation

• Quaker State Running on All Cylinders Again By Katie Fairbank

• Premier Laser Names Executive VP

• Investment Conference

• Those ‘A’ and 5-Star Ratings Ain’t What They Used to Be By Charles A. Jaffe

• Where There’s Smoke There Are Profits, Casino Operators Say By Robert Macy

• THE GRAND CHESSBOARD.\o7 By Zbigniew Brzezinski\f7 .\o7 BasicBooks: 224 pp., $26\f7 - THE AMERICAN ENCOUNTER.\o7 Edited by James F. Hoge Jr. and Fareed Zakaria\f7 .\o7 BasicBooks: 656 pp., $35\f7 By Walter Russell Mead

• X20: A Novel of (Not) Smoking.\o7 By Richard Beard\f7 .\o7 Arcade: 312 pp., $22.95\f7 By Richard Eder

• Rita Meter Maid By Charlotte Innes

• MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA.\o7 By Arthur Golden\f7 .\o7 Alfred A. Knopf: 392 pp., $25\f7 By Heller Mcalpin

• “The Prince and the Pauper” Revisited By Jerry Griswold

• Wheeling Through Tuscany, by Patricia Young

• From Poet to Tiger, by May Swenson

• Wild Blue Yonder By Cari Beauchamp

• Finders Keepers By Debra Goldman

• VOLCANOES.\o7 By Robert Decker and Barbara Decker\f7 .\o7 W.H. Freeman & Co: 322 pp., $19.95\f7 - VOLCANOES: Crucibles of Change.\o7 By Richard V. Fisher, Grant Heiken and Jeffrey B. Hulen\f7 . \o7 Princeton University Press: 320 pp., $35\f7 By Kenneth Reich

• Singled Out By David Futrelle

• Silkweed, by Olena Kalytiak Davis

• READING L.A.

• BESTSELLERS

• CELIA CRUZ “Celia’s Duets” RMM * * * 1/2 By Ernesto Lechner

• Opening French Doors By Victoria Looseleaf

• In Brief By Ernesto Lechner

• A Welder of Metal and Fervid Imaginings By Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

• RICK FAMUYIWA / WRITER By Steve Hochman

• BIG DAY By Dave Jennings, From London

• Forget the Loincloths By Christian Boone

• In Brief By Connie Johnson

• The Contenders By Victoria Looseleaf

• More Ma: Call Him Mr. Multimedia By Justin Davidson

• NO APOLOGIES By Steve Hochman

• Up on the Roof at New Film School By Nicolai Ouroussoff

• Compiling a Toast to the Friars’ Roasts By Donald Liebenson

• Somber Songs, Leftovers Fill Princess Di Tribute By Steve Hochman

• Poised to Fly By Patrick Pacheco

• He Sees a Softer Side of Soul By Cheo Hodari Coker

• Some of Them Stand Out After Novelty Is Gone By Robert Hilburn

• Beatles Producer Turns Swan Song Into a Lark By Steve Hochman

• Friends: The Movie By David Kronke

• ‘Funk’ Tour Brings in ‘Da Understudy By Don Shirley

• In Brief By Brett Johnson

• Princess of the Xeitgeist By Anne Beatts

• Out of the Shadow of Giants By Christopher Knight

• Instrument of Change By Justin Davidson

• SMALL FACES

• Music to Set–or Steal–the Scene By Don Heckman

• So the Show Did Go On By Daryl H. Miller

• Will Business, Labor Replay 1958 Fight? By Sherry Bebitch Jeffe

• Nuclear Power Won’t Fix Our ‘Greenhouse’ By Helen Caldicott

• A Simple Case of Defining What’s Fair By David Dante Troutt

• Sheldon Hackney By Ian L. Parker

• The Violence Conundrum By Eric H. Monkkonen

• Jitters About Japan

• Grass-Roots Signs of Change By Richard Baum

• A Good Idea Clicks Elsewhere

• An Opportunity for Latino Lawmakers to Take the Lead By Gregory Rodriguez

• Foreign Gifts With Strings Have U.S. Colleges Fretting

• Economic Stress Makes the Heart Grow Fonder of Authoritarianism By Donald Kirk

• Not Finding Heroes, We Are the Poorer By Peter H. Gibbon

• Death Probably Saved Mas From Forces Threatening To Undo Him By Walter Russell Mead

• U.S. Iraqi Policy Alienating Arab Allies By Shibley Telhami

• Confronting the Horror of Biological Warfare By Leonard A. Cole