Archive for Sunday, August 12, 2007

• Meteor shower to peak after midnight By John Johnson Jr.

Bouncing away from high prices at the pumps

• Spinning turmoil in S.F. By John M. Glionna

• King-Harbor is quiet after ER closure By Charles Ornstein and Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Francisco Vara-Orta

• Mary Murphy, 89; water skier set age, endurance records By and Claire Nol

• Surf’s up and lifting spirits By Dan Arritt

• Computer malfunction holds up passengers at LAX By Ari B. Bloomekatz and Karen Kaplan, Rong-Gong Lin Ii

• Army Sgt. Shawn Adams, 21, Dixon, Calif.; killed while on patrol in Iraq By Jack Leonard

• Expo helps black writers break into the market By Margot Roosevelt

• Obituaries / PASSINGS - Tony Wilson, 57; music impresario promoted Manchester bands

• Doctor marks a century of selflessness By Cecilia Rasmussen

• Army National Guard Spc. Eric Holke, 31, Riverside; killed in vehicle rollover in Iraq By Catherine Saillant

• Army Pvt. Shane M. Stinson, 23, Fullerton; among 3 killed in Baghdad By Joel Rubin

• Fatal crash in Lomita

• Army Sgt. Ronald Coffelt, 36, Fair Oaks; killed by a makeshift bomb By Paul Pringle

• Army Sgt. 1st Class Sean K. Mitchell, 35, Monterey; killed as high winds blow over tent By Tiffany Hsu

• Good signs downtown, but vision still lacking By Steve Lopez

• Other deaths

• War also takes its toll in noncombat-related deaths

• Lottery results

• Schools seen as better after lawsuit By Carla Rivera

• INSIDE

• PASSINGS

• MILITARY DEATHS - War casualties

• Obituaries / PASSINGS - James Faust By From

Comfort, class coexist

• A large dose of charisma By Kathy Price-Robinson

• It’s mom and pop business By Ruth Ryon

• It’s purely pedestrian By Leah Ziskin

• Homing instincts By Diane Wedner

• Sitting pretty

• Where has all the money gone? By Jack Guttentag

• Average mortgage rates and indexes

• Best to be honest from the start that lease may be up in a year By Kevin Postema

• Outdoor spaces must stay on the sunny side By Arrol Gellner

• An inspection is a dirty, demanding job, when done properly By Barry Stone

• Like new! But listing is old By Obert J. Bruss

• Women holding purse strings

• Purchase power

Safe and sound

• The day the red flag went up By Chuck Culpepper

• Inside Baseball - DOWN THE LINE By Bill Shaikin

• Scoring remains a sore subject By Kevin Baxter

• Inside Baseball - THE BOTTOM HALF

• Shoe is on the other foot now By Robyn Norwood

• Sanchez is trying to stay positive By Gary Klein

• Return to (exhibition) glory

• PGA Championship - HIT AND MISS

• Theirs is a road well-traveled By Bill Shaikin

• Sideline duty for Tomlinson By Bob Mieszerski

• It was a match to remember By Peter Yoon

• Galaxy is facing steep uphill road By Grahame L. Jones

• Mother of reinventions By Kevin Baxter

• It take a plan to bag big home-run ball By Geoff Mulvihill

• Izturis has gone power mad By Mike Digiovanna

• Making an art of talking trash By Rob Maaddi

• It’s a bad sign for DQ’d Garcia By Thomas Bonk

• A great family experience – but hold the eel By C J. Nitkowski

• Figgins finds his way back By Kurt Streeter

• Djokovic beats Nadal to earn matchup with Federer

• Sparks’ losing streak is now at five, 100-83

• BOB MIESZERSKI’S DEL MAR HANDICAP By Bob Mieszerski

• Fish Report

• Harvick wins second Busch race in a row

• Ethier could set a double standard By Kevin Baxter

• Carroll’s pinch-hit slam lifts Rockies past Cubs

• Classic Cleat tries to make short work of it By Bob Mieszerski

• Assistant Scott set to rejoin the team By Chris Foster

• Sharapova unable to play By Lisa Dillman

• Georgie Boy goes after a Grade II victory By Bob Mieszerski

• Raiders start with a victory

• Beckett beats Orioles to become 15-game winner

• Discipline aside, Goodell has made his mark By Dave Goldberg

• Russell still has big league dreams

• GAME OF THE DAY - Webb has another gem in 1-0 victory

• GAME OF THE DAY - Jackson heats it up, shuts out Rangers

• Matthews wants to play the field By Mike Digiovanna

• Chevrolet contingent impresses Kenseth By Associated Press

• Theirs is a road well-traveled

NEED TO KNOW | NEWS . STYLE . TIPS . TRENDS

• Weigh to go By Rosemary Mcclure

• Dynamos with dynamite By Christopher Reynolds

• Tribal treasures By Rosemary Mcclure

• On a steeple chase By Joe Robinson

• READERS RECOMMEND

• Red-light city By Marc Cooper

• Lost cause By Catharine Hamm

• Moscow’s domes: better than cake

• Playa for all kinds of play By Scott Doggett

• It’s wine, crafts and song at Mammoth By Rosemary Mcclure

• In the Black Hills, echoes of the Old West By Christopher Reynolds

• Planning a trip to Myanmar

• GEO QUIZ

• The heights of summer

• Lodging, restaurants and other tips

• A trove of temples

• From Ricardo’s, a scale within a bag

• Balanzza Digital Luggage Scale gives bag’s weight and a greeting too

• Network with fellow travelers By Vani Rangachar

• FILMS & PROGRAMS

• Top Indian markets in the U.S.

• ON TRAVEL.LATIMES.COM

• CALENDAR

• Passenger rights bills still on the taxiway By Jane Engle

• LETTERS

• Keeping cool in volcano country

• Glacier visit on the to-do list

• This hotel is in her doghouse

• Giants of the Plains

THE NATION - Sounds of hope for Coltrane house - Forty years after the saxophonist-composer died, volunteers hope to turn his home into a historic showplace.

• THE NATION - Cyberspace cemetery: Where the voices of the dead live on - MyDeathSpace saves profiles of deceased MySpace members. By Meghan Barr

• Confront China on human rights

• Stuck on cactus? He’s your man - Steven Brack’s New Mexico nursery houses 15,000 species of dry-climate plants. He sends the seeds worldwide. By Matt Mygatt

• Taking DNA technology out into the wild - In Idaho, biologists use forensic science to bring poachers to justice. By Rebecca Boone

• THE NATION - In New Jersey, some find it’s not easy being green By Geoff Mulvihill

• THE WORLD - Dead butterflies may be ill omen in Mexico - Deforestation saps the monarchs as well as the only source of water for mountain communities. By Stephen Kiehl

• For the Record

• For the Record

• THE WORLD - Large Holocaust archive slowly being recorded - As a closed collection of Nazi documents is being scanned in Germany, access to the data is questioned. By Arthur Max

• THE WORLD - Dissidents still sent to asylums, Russia activists say By Alex Rodriguez

• A right to know what’s in the ocean

• Water spouts

• Preventing a global tragedy

• For the Record

• THE NATION - In some ways, chimps found to behave better than humans By William Mullen

• For the Record

• Watch TV with your children

• Gulko, six others tie in U.S. Open By Jack Peters

• On transit, L.A. isn’t Denver

• Spying on Americans

• Water spouts

• SUNDAY BRIEFING

• A Renaissance in Waikiki

• Fueling change

• A troubled infrastructure

• For the Record

• For the Record

• Searching for Sand Dollars By Koch

• Discovering Little-Known Lanai By Bekah Wright

How to get and keep your health covered

• Negotiating a deal? Don’t make this error By Kathy M. Kristof

• Home’s not always where the growth is By Ann Marsh

• Speech balloons are his newest thing By Alex Pham

• Covering the angles in a merger By James Politi

• Some failures in communications By David Colker

• Saying no to family moochers By Liz Pulliam Weston

• Health insurance help

• This month’s makeover

• Suggestion for federal hiring rules

• Foreclosures may spur price drops By David Streitfeld

• One house’s trip through the boom and bust By David Streitfeld

• An advocate for readers, a name you can trust

• Profit and prices at Stater Bros.

• Consumer Briefs | BEVERAGES - Energy drinks versus coffee

• Consumer Briefs | INTERNET - Buy.com to launch Facebook service

• Consumer Briefs | RECALLS - Bistro Chairs may collapse

• Suggestion for federal hiring rules

• CONSUMER CONFIDENTIAL - An advocate for readers, a name you can trust By David Lazarus

• Consumer Briefs | SAFETY - Study tracks child deaths from ATVs

Gall in the family

• Bittersweet entanglements By Donna Seaman

• Animal instincts By Nick Owchar

• Circle of friends By Laurel Maury

• Spin cycles By David Futrelle

• Agents of change By Jon Wiener

• Garden of gears By Ed Park

• From ‘When We Were Bad’:

• BESTSELLERS

• PAPERBACKS

• BESTSELLERS

• A fresh breeze By M G. Lord

• Love letters By Veronique De Turenne

• Book and author events for the week of Aug. 12, 2007

• DISCOVERIES By Susan Salter Reynolds

• PAPERBACKS

• Quantum tale By Sara Lippincott

This joint is smokin’

• If the riff sounds familiar, well, that’s the point By Ann Powers

• A global give and take By Stanley Meisler

• Perspectives on history By Robert Abele

• An ode to a lost time By Lynell George

• Cheap Trick conjures the Beatles at Hollywood Bowl By Ann Powers

• A downpour of ‘Chocolate Rain’ By David Sarno

• Savoring life in the slow lane By Robert W. Welkos

• Frank Oz and that little voice inside By John Clark

• Another splashy event for the kids By Mary Mcnamara

• C’mon and sing along By Diane Haithman

• Underage, some argue overpaid, and it’s still staid By Deborah Netburn

• THE DVD FILE - Surprising road trip on ‘Hogs’ By Susan King

• Style runs the gamut from white to beige By Jon Caramanica

• ‘California Girls’ The Beach Boys | 1965 By Geoff Boucher

• The ‘big musical on campus’ syndrome By Charles Mcnulty

• The faithful songbird By Holly Gleason

• Creativity Corner

• True acting buff By Susan King

• Fab follows function By Choire Sicha

• Nancy Drew is on the case

• The guy sounds simply mahhvelous

• THE KIDS’ READING ROOM - ‘Tying Tennis Shoes’ By Kay Haugaard

• ‘Life’ dies; Brit’s puppy love

• Admit it, you inhale By Mary Mcnamara

• Billy Wilder lived on many streets By Susan King

• BACK TO ‘SCHOOL’ By Lynn Smith

• Witness to the wit of an arch and fiery spirit By Steffie Nelson

• Letting Burns off easy

• An influence that is easy to see By Dennis Lim

• Radio

• Events

• SPECIAL GUEST STAR…

• TiVo THIS

• Prime choices for prime time

• Today’s Highlights

• ‘Tying Tennis Shoes’

• FUNNY BUSINESS

• Galleries

• Nancy Drew is on the case

• WHAT’S-UP DOC

• THE RETURN OF …

• Jokes & Riddles

• A current sense of Wonder By August Brown

• Music

• Watch ‘em shake, rattle and roll

• A ‘Musical’ for the masses By Lynn Smith

• ROCK &OPERA By Mark Swed

• McGraw and Hill reach beyond country’s twang By Mikael Wood

• Museums

• ‘HSM2’s class action By Lewis Segal

• You can tell they have powers

• FOR THE KIDS

• Smiles are part of a scene’s makeup

• ‘HSM2’: 2 repetitious 2 B 4-Gotten By Ann Powers

• Daytime Movies

• Theater

• For the record

• LETTERS - One museum, many challenges

• Dance

• For the record

• For the record

• LETTERS - Truth, it seems, is in the telling

Three schoolyard slayings bind Newark in mourning

• Camera sees no signs of life in Utah coal mine By Nicholas Riccardi

• Gay and lesbian power By Don Frederick And Andrew Malcolm

• Bush welcomes French president with burgers and blueberry pie By Bob Drogin

• Thompson’s red truck is parked, for now By Robin Abcarian

• A mixed message on CO2 By Judy Pasternak

• Lutherans vote not to punish gay ministers

• Climate isn’t part of World Bank equation By Judy Pasternak

• Air Force charges airman who accused others of rape By David Zucchino

• HAWAII

• People in 41 nations are living longer than Americans

• Straw poll results

• Romney bests rivals in straw poll By Michael Finnegan

• Nation in Brief | HAWAII - Hurricane upgrades to Category 4

• Nation in Brief | NEW YORK - Security scaled down after threat

• Nation in Brief | MINNESOTA - Rain hampers divers’ search

• Nation in Brief | FLORIDA - Shuttle’s shield may need repair

The art of war

• Bridge work By Joel Pett

• L.A. to N.Y., nonstop By Joel Kotkin

• Double whammy By Ronald Brownstein

• Cut and run By Yasmin Khan

• New bosses, new rules By Kelly C and Aele

• How India beat the odds By Shashi Tharoor

• Wars within wars By Richard Engel

• Fencing with Tehran

Rum is lifting economic spirits

• Insult to injury in Darfur By Edmund S and Ers

• TIME STANDS STILL

• In Year Zero+32, still awaiting justice By Paul Watson

• Two Baghdad districts see no decline in sectarian ‘cleansing’ By Tina Susman

• World in Brief | INDIA - Arms depot fire injures 2, kills 35

• Chinese moms-to-be are sneaking for 2 By Ching-Ching Ni

• Iraqi governor, police chief killed in blast By Alex and Ra Zavis

• 2 S. Koreans may be freed ‘soon’

• 2 journalists slain in Somalia By Edmund S and Ers

• World in Brief | VIETNAM - Workers rush to help flood victims

• Congo ceases action against Hutu rebels

• World in Brief | VENEZUELA - Chavez pledges oil aid for Caribbean

• World in Brief |SIERRA LEONE - Voters line up to choose president