Archive for Sunday, July 06, 2003
Science
Last SARS Hot Spot Contained
Science |
July 6, 2003
The World Health Organization removed the last region – Taiwan –
from its list of SARS-infected areas Saturday, marking the end of an
outbreak that in its three-month surge around the world infected
thousands and shook economies from Asia to North America. Read more
California | Local
Fire Museum Tells of Valor, History
California | Local |
July 6, 2003
With its high ceilings, six old-fashioned brass fire poles and nearly
a dozen antique fire engines, the Los Angeles Fire Department Museum
looks like a set from a Hollywood back lot. Read more
Magazine
Behind the Bamboo Curtain
Magazine |
July 6, 2003
Noisy days and nights in a cramped house on a busy street: Such is
life for many in our auto-centric city. Read more
Real Estate
It ‘reeks’ with Spanish charm
Real Estate |
July 6, 2003
Wallace Neff designed dozens of houses in the L.A. area during
Hollywood’s Golden Age, but the celebrated architect only designed a
few in the Santa Barbara area. Read more
Sports
An Early Leg Up
Sports |
July 6, 2003
The ball comes out of his left hand as if launched from a camouflaged silo. Read more
Travel
The Philadelphia story
Travel |
July 6, 2003
There’s not much of a barrier between Philadelphians and their
city’s history and culture. Read more
News
Brazil’s Farmers Step Up Land Seizures
News |
July 6, 2003
TRES MARIAS RANCH, Brazil – On May 12, Gabriel Maciel and more than
1,000 other landless farmers knocked down the barbed-wire fences
surrounding Tres Marias ranch in southern Brazil, evicted its owner
and claimed the land for themselves. Read more
Business
Cirque’s Outlook – Some Call It a Mystere
Business |
July 6, 2003
Standing at the jetway at the Toronto airport, Las Vegas mogul Steve
Wynn extended his hand to the former fire-eating street performer. Read more
Books
The rhetoric changes, yet the art endures
Books |
July 6, 2003
American Expressionism Art and Social Change 1920-1950 Bram Dijkstra Harry N. Abrams/Columbus Museum of Art: 272 pp., $60 * This is a marvelous, passionate and irritating book that proposes
to retrieve a once-powerful movement in American painting from the
rubbish heap of art history. Read more
Entertainment
National
Security Would Slow Puget Sound Commute
National |
July 6, 2003
What would happen if a terrorist detonated a bomb aboard the 6:20 a.m. Read more
Opinion
The Day of the Long Knives
Opinion |
July 6, 2003
Sacramento politics have gone from hardball to bean ball. Read more
World
Bracing Cease-Fire, Abbas Meets Hamas Leader
World |
July 6, 2003
Seeking to cement a cease-fire declared a week ago by Palestinian
militant groups, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas
met for the first time Saturday with Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the
spiritual leader of Hamas. Read more
