Archive for Thursday, March 31, 2005

Aspirin Found to Beat Warfarin for One Kind of Stroke

• Drug Shows Promise Against Chagas’ Disease By Charles Piller

• Rising Child Obesity Offsets Gains

Lush With Flowers, Lousy With Tourists

• History Is Gone With the Rain By Bob Pool

• Help Sought in Fatal Shooting on Freeway By Susana Enriquez

• Theater Set for Its Next Scene By David Reyes

• Time Change May Put Sleepier Drivers on Road By Sharon Bernstein

• LAPD Settling Abuse Scandal By Scott Glover and Matt Lait

• Emergency Rules Called Overused By Robert Salladay

• Justice With a Side Order of Help By Rachana Rathi

• Police Move to Curb Car Shootings By Andrew Blankstein

• Tom Bevill, 84; Congressman Called the ‘King of Pork’

• Leona Rostenberg, 96; Discovered Secret Racy Side of Louisa May Alcott By Myrna Oliver

• UC Irvine School to Pocket Millions By Jeff Gottlieb

• Sue P. Cummings, 99; Founded Youth Charity

• Beachgoers Told to Stay Away From Seal Pups

• Daniel Benitez, 49; Cuban Figured in High Court Ruling

• Officials Call for Inquiry on City Loans By Patrick Mcgreevy

• L.A. Is Not Liable in Killing of Two at LAX By David Rosenzweig

• Courts Divided by Chavez Holiday By Caitlin Liu

• Audit Finds Officials Falsified School Budgets

• Candidates Appeal to Key Blocs By Richard Fausset and Jessica Garrison

• Suit Against Blake May Be Settled By Jean Guccione

• Boy, 16, Fatally Shot Near Inglewood

• Bilked Investors Face a Long Wait By Veronica Torrejon

• Gang Clothing a Concern for Officials

• Man Killed, 3 Injured in Morning Collision

• No Quick Fix Seen for Long LAX Lines By Jennifer Oldham

• Legislators Confirm Secretary of State

• Angelides Strives to Get His ‘Anti-Arnold’ Message Heard in Bid for Governor By George Skelton

• Teacher Panel Says No to Pact By Cara Mia Dimassa

• Coffeehouse Is on Dana Point Burner By Jean O. Pasco

• Drunk Driver Gets 3 Life Terms in Crash

• Therapist Who Spoke to Jackson Accuser Testifies By Stuart Pfeifer and Steve Chawkins

• Rivals for 11th District Seat Announce Backers By Steve Hymon

• DWP Agrees to Notify Councils on Proposals By Patrick Mcgreevy

• Episcopal Bishop Has Surgery to Remove Foot

• Historic Aqueduct in L.A. to Be Buried By Bob Pool

• Department Clarifying Rule on Immigrants By Richard Winton

• Chase Ends in Arrest of Car-Theft Suspect

Eckstein Grasps Cardinal Numbers

• He Was Lost in Thought By Chris Dufresne

• Myles Turns the Game Inside, Out By David Wharton

• Williams Keeps Desire Burning By Jason Reid

• Only One Spot Isn’t Set By Steve Henson

• Brown Expected Back Friday Amid Mixed Signals

• Spartan Coach Is a Smashing Success By Robyn Norwood

• Clippers Get an Early Jump on Loss

• Now She Has Snow Much Fun By Pete Thomas

• Owners Approve the Sale of A’s

• Rodriguez Shows Her Talent on World Stage By Lauren Peterson

• Back Again, With His Third School By Robyn Norwood

• Masters Field

• U.S. Soccer Victory Lacks Home Equity By Grahame L. Jones

• Relative Newcomer Seeks Some Advice By Robyn Norwood

• Don’t Expect Apologies By Thomas Bonk

• Panama Rallies to Tie Mexico

• Nicklaus Unsure of Masters Plans By Thomas Bonk

• Two Veteran Geldings Try to Turn Back Clock By Bob Mieszerski

• Florida Derby Is on Bacteria Alert By Bill Christine

• Gordon’s 35 Keep the Bulls Streaking

• Prinz Is Happy to Join Bullpen By Mike Digiovanna

• Collison, Roll Receive Honors

• Top-Seeded Mauresmo Advances to Semifinals

• They’ve Fallen, May Not Get Up By Jerry Crowe

• Finally, Good Times for Baylor

• Gonzaga’s Morrison Will Stay in School

• Top Performers

• NFL Seeks Better Steroid Testing

• NHL and Union to Meet in Effort to Solve Labor Dispute By Helene Elliott

• Response Was Child’s Play for Russell By Larry Stewart

From healing hands to haute handbags

• More joy than in Mudville By Lynne Heffley

• Backing the rock rebellion By Annie Zaleski

• Their dads were riding shotgun By Lisa Rosen

• 10 years later, Tejano still feels loss of Selena By Lynn Brezosky

• Strength, sheen, artistry By Scarlet Cheng

• A time-traveling toast when the whistle blows By Valli Herman

• Vintage yet relevant By Kevin Thomas

• Some Spring in your step By Diane Haithman

• Now for a Pythonathon By Susan King

• Worth shelling out for By S. Irene Virbila

• The Method and a little Brando madness By Susan King

• BUZZ CLUBS By Heidi Siegmund Cuda

• William Wallace braves New York

• 50 Cent still most valued By Robert Hilburn

• They call them graphic novels for a reason

• Thanks, but the veggie platter is fine By Teresa Strasser

• Move over, SpongeBob By Brenda Rees

• A little less music, a lot of matzo ball soup By Frank Farrar

• BUZZ BANDS By Kevin Bronson

• Wrestling reaches out to its fans By Martin Miller

• The dream lives on, even amid the chaos By Annie Zaleski

• ‘Left’ just doesn’t look right By Paul Brownfield

• For mature audiences By Heidi Siegmund Cuda

• March’s media bias By Ellen Alperstein

• Ask the Critic: Robert Hilburn By Robert Hilburn

• Rapper’s hope lies in court

• WEEKEND FORECAST

• FINALLY

• Oysters By Leslee Komaiko

• Mary Cheney to write book

• Britain blocks export of Blake watercolors

HP Rolls Out Its New CEO

• State Lawmakers Grill ChoicePoint Over Privacy Concerns, Potential for ID Theft By Marc Lifsher

• Qwest Signals Resolve on MCI

• Judgment to Sports Agent Is Blocked By Debora Vrana

• Wal-Mart Mexico Unit Plans Big Expansion

• Intel and Bertelsmann to Develop Technology

• Union Pacific Allots $1.6 Billion to Improve Speed on Rail System

• Briefly

• Standard Pacific Rewards Its CEO By Annette Haddad

• Proposal to Re-Regulate Power Gets Support By Rong-Gong Lin II

• Cisco Eliminates ‘Poison Pill’ Provision

• Drug Firm La Jolla to Cut 60 Jobs

• Biogen, Elan Report Another Death During Drug Trial

• Another Morgan Stanley Exec Joins Wave of Exits

• SEC Eyes Fund Firm’s Trade Costs By Tom Petruno

• GDP Up at 3.8% Pace in Quarter

• Founder of Hollywood Video May Sell Entire Stake in Chain

• TV Exec Moves to the Big Screen By Meg James and Claudia Eller

• PepsiCo North America Unit Chief to Leave

• Exec Calls HealthSouth Hot Line a Joke

• Continental Pilots OK $213 Million in Cuts

• Mutual Fund Inflows Rise 46% By Tom Petruno

• MGM-Sony Deal Cleared by Europeans

• Hydrogen Vehicle Deals Signed

• Operators of Debt Company Settle Charges By E. Scott Reckard

• Thomas Weisel Partners Settles Charges Over IPO Allocations

• Stocks Get Boost From Oil, GDP

• U.S. Firms to Invest $350 Million in Lenovo

• Autobytel Will Miss Nasdaq Deadline

• Gap Compliance Chief Quits; Successor Named

• Northrop CEO’s Compensation Up 18%

• Union Pays $8 Million to End Claims By Nancy Cleeland

• AIG Discloses Extensive Accounting Problems

• Schwab Founder Refuses $4.5-Million Bonus

‘Father of Fairy Tales’

• Editors get to read all about it

• Jokes & Riddles

Bush Invites Critics to Show, Tell

• Plea for Schiavo Denied

• Ex-Scouting Official Admits Porn Charge

• New Orleans Prosecutor Is Guilty of Racial Bias

• Democrats Set to Reject Pick for U.N. By Paul Richter

• Police Chief in Albuquerque Quits Amid Evidence Scandal

• Judge Protects Equality of Benefits for Retirees

• Defense Attorney Spurns Plea Deal, Gets 18 Years

• Falwell Is Taken Off Critical List

• Anti-Logging Protester Snarls Portland Traffic

• Justices Give Older Workers More Leeway in Alleging Bias By David G. Savage

• FBI Reportedly Studies Possible Yucca Mountain Fraud

• Possible Cause of Deadly Refinery Blast Identified

• Teen Shooter Wounded by Police, Deputy Says

• No Senate Run by Rep. Kennedy

• Parole System Faulted as a Revolving Door By Justin Dickerson

• New Order of Catholic Priests Is Forming to Fight Abortions By Scott Gold

• Captain Gets Probation in Alaska Ship Accident

• Senate Favors Measure on Stem Cell Research

Eat, drink and take notes

• Putting the fab back in confab By David A. Keeps

• This season’s ‘it’ tree By Lili Singer

• Little bursts of sweet delight, by the tree load By Lili Singer

• The trend hits hotels too By Janet Eastman

• Lofty aspirations By Maryann Hammers

• How to hang a swing

• Dealing with new arrivals

• Talk like an architect By Alexandria Abramian-Mott

• When in doubt, do nothing By Chris Erskine

• Evolution in home design By Christy Hobart

• ‘In’ is out when it comes to lasting color schemes

• Not Webster but not bad By Christy Hobart

• Loaded words: ‘Going home’ By Steven Barrie-Anthony

• Et Tu, Florida?

• The Iraq War’s Outsourcing Snafu By Max Boot

• A Dangerous Line in the Sand

• Cracking the Story Code By Christopher Booker

• Motherhood, It’s a Zoo

• Annan’s Plan Would Be Suicide for Nations By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey

Bird Flu Hits N. Korea in Sore Spot

• Loyalists of Rebel Cleric Flex Muscle By Edmund Sanders

• Rebels Kill 6 Iraqis at Checkpoint; Shiite Pilgrims Attacked in South

• Quake Rescuers Race the Clock By Richard C. Paddock and Oki Rahmatna Tiba, Dinda Jouhana

• Leader’s Biography a Hit in China By Ching-Ching Ni

• Soldier Defends His Killing of Iraqi as ‘the Honorable Thing’

• Iran President Leads Tour of Atomic Plants

• Stature of Limitations in China By Ching-Ching Ni

• Despite Discontent, Mugabe’s Party Has Upper Hand in Vote By Robyn Dixon

• Pro-Syria Premier Delays Stepping Down

• Agents to Be Deployed Along Arizona Border

• Pope Being Fed Through Tube By Tracy Wilkinson

• First Lady Makes Short Kabul Visit

• Israeli Envoy Injured in Apparent Suicide Bid

• U.S. Agrees to Use U.N. Court for Darfur Cases

• Abbas Is Unhurt in Attack on Headquarters