Archive for Monday, May 14, 2007

New citizens share strong ties to the U.S.

• Tar pits’ secret bubbles up By Jia-Rui Chong

• Staying way after school By Roy Rivenburg

• A magical mystery maypole rises in Brentwood By Carla Rivera

• George Kiseda, 80; sports journalist was a cult figure to peers By Mark Heisler

• Tourists can go back to Catalina By Joel Rubin and John Johnson Jr.

• Medi-Cal plan has doctors divided By Jordan Rau

• Spector trial shifts to night of the killing By Peter Y. Hong

• On river plan, Alarcon reluctant to go with the flow By Steve Hymon

• Heat exhaustion hits 2 Disneyland performers

• Firefighters battle 80-acre brush fire in Lake View Terrace

• Man turns himself in after O.C. shooting By Ashley Powers

• No winners in NASA’s excavation contest

• Boy accidentally shoots, kills father, police say

• 2 killed, driver charged in crash By Rong-Gong Lin II and Gary Polakovic

• Vacant building, site of condo project, is burned

• Man stabbed on skid row dies; assailant is sought

• Don’t rush to reseed at park, experts say By Deborah Schoch

• State Guard alone on the tuition front By Nancy Vogel

Into thinner air

• Focus on backward movement By Karen Voight

• Soy’s new competition: hemp By Janet Cromley

• Anesthesia: a medical mainstay re-examined By Chandra Shekhar

• Hair of the doc? By Elena Conis

• Risking it in the ring By Jeannine Stein

• Eat fruit? Kids just might By Sally Squires

• Small dose of reality By Susan Brink

• Sunscreen can mimic estrogen By Joe Graedon and Teresa Graedon

• Just 10 minutes – is that so hard? By Sally Squires

• To fight obesity, ask the right questions

• Aid for muscular dystrophy

• For aging eyes, vitamins By Chris Woolston

• A motion for less motion for babies By James Channing Shaw

• Katrina survivors still struggle

• Cutting hair, checking pressure

• Free, but costly to his principles By Steve Dudley

• Breast tumors and hormone therapy

• Is Gardasil worth a shot? By Sandra G. Boodman

Tennis player to the stars has still got game at 91

• Ducks get great reviews By Eric Stephens

• Lefty makes dry run to title By Thomas Bonk

• Timely bounce sparks Dodgers By Ben Bolch

• A lot happens, but Angels lose By Mike Digiovanna

• Nadal makes more history with victory

• Old-school Jazz coach keeps on teaching By J A. Adande

• Landis vs. anti-doping program By Michael A. Hiltzik

• Gordon still has the hottest car around By Ed Hinton

• UCLA is first to win its 100th NCAA title By Peter Yoon

• Patience running low on Santana By Mike Digiovanna

• Niedermayers’ joy brings great pleasure to Ducks By Helene Elliott

• FISH REPORT

• Top of the order swings into action By Ben Bolch

• Warriors get dose of reality

• Money talks, and talks By Gary Klein

• Brentwood’s Kehrer is a master adapter By Steve Galluzzo

• Bulls refuse to be swept

• Red Sox rally for six in ninth to win, 6-5

• Unser qualifies, then gets bumped at Indy

• Carlyle shuffles his lines By Lonnie White

• Red Wings’ Hasek doesn’t expect a one-sided series By Lonnie White

• ‘Kitty scores first graded stakes win as 17-1 shot By Bob Mieszerski

• Giants rookie Lewis goes for a full cycle

The realities of fantasy islands

• A blending of screens By Richard Verrier

• Putting up money has its privileges By Don Lee

• Competing to be `Entrepreneur Idol’ By Michelle Quinn

• ABC blazes own trail online By Meg James and Dawn C. Chmielewski

• What’s behind the postage hike By Scott J. Wilson

• In consoles, the game isn’t going Sony’s way By Bruce Wallace and Alex Pham

• Chrysler is on verge of being sold to equity firm By Martin Zimmerman and Kimi Yoshino

• Inflation, construction data due

• Reuters trust said to back sale

• Germany’s Merck to sell generics unit to Mylan

• Spidey still No. 1, but battle with ogre nears By Josh Friedman

• Possible buyer holds big stakes in auto industry By Martin Zimmerman and Kimi Yoshino

• Turning mundane to object of desire By Vanessa Friedman

Many ways to play Wango Tango

• A nostalgic rendezvous with the City of Light By Susan King

• Maugham waxes witty on a marriage growing stale By Daryl H. Miller

• `Delta Farce’ needs a new joke strategy By Roger Moore

• No word, 4 letters or otherwise, on rap lyrics By Marcus Franklin

• Becomingly British By Richard S. Ginell

• Sizing up character in `Fat Pig’ By Charlotte Stoudt

• TV genre yabba dabba doomed? By Roger Catlin

• Help from above just got better By Al Martinez

• Comedy serious about music By Lynne Heffley

• She means show business By Randy Lewis

• Just mad for her fury By Natalie Nichols

• DVR, for divide, vex and rankle By Scott Collins

• Fierstein heads Globe’s ‘08 season

• Cable news is more than open to debates By Matea Gold

• Still crazy after all these years By Steve Hochman

• 5 `wild’ artists win Alpert awards

• Revitalized By Margaret Wappler

• Imagine how Mozart would swing By Don Heckman

• A place that promotes climbing to new heights By Amy Kaufman

• NBC renews `Law & Order’; new `CI’ shows will air on USA By Matea Gold

• Uri Caine’s jazzy swansong By Mark Swed

• A diehard addict kicks her habit: TV By Bernadette Murphy

Worshipers gather in Greensburg

• U.S. attorney put on defensive By Richard A. Serrano

• Bush hails Jamestown roots

• Lower percentage of women getting regular mammograms

• Common chemicals linked to breast cancer By Marla Cone

• Salvation Army, Greenpeace call off fight over bequest By Tomas Alex Tizon

• Endangered bat rescued and freed

• MLK exhibit closes after record crowds

• Stamp acts

• Caucus vs. caucus

• March madness By Gregory Rodriguez

• Papal spin

• Saying no to U.S. News By Patricia Mcguire

• Venice on the Hudson By Niall Ferguson

• Big Oil buys Sacramento By Jamie Court and Judy Dugan

Pope leaves Brazil with fierce speech

• Taliban dealt a blow with top commander’s slaying By Laura King and M. Karim Faiez

• Colorful elections bring out Filipinos By Paul Watson

• Iraqi militants claim to hold U.S. soldiers By Tina Susman

• 5 dead as Hamas, Fatah clash in Gaza By Henry Chu

• Cricket coach wasn’t slain, paper reports

• Mexican army officer’s body found

• Writer jailed for criticizing policy

• Boat sinks; search is on for crew of 16

• Court official slain in Pakistan

• Gunmen kill Buddhist monk in eastern Sri Lanka

• U.S. and Iran to meet on Iraq war By Louise Roug and Ramin Mostaghim

• Ruling party wins general election

• Algeria pounds insurgent stronghold

• Party loyalist is named premier