Archive for Thursday, January 31, 2008

• Soldiers’ symptoms linked to post-traumatic stress

• Study shows vaccine-autism link is unlikely

• Scientists rethink views of Mercury

• Cardiologists may have a super Sunday too

• Violent crimes drop 17% in parts of Ventura County

• Activist helped desegregate L.A. schools

• Cross-racial shootings spark fear in Monrovia

• Mailings to Scientology sites probed

• Diplomat taught English to Mao

• Passings

• Old movies are good medicine

• Plan’s death shows system works

• A-list dining: an L.A. institution

• Lottery results

• Prosecutors drop allegation against Carona’s wife over $15,000 watch

• MTA rolls out subway proposals

• Head of Social Security under three presidents

• Park’s museum will be a nod to El Toro’s history

• Fuel spill ties up the 134

• Transit study

• The host with the most – rancor

• Schwarzenegger likely to back McCain

• State to launch effort to develop ‘green’ substitutes for chemicals

• Snow in Grapevine area closes Interstate 5

• Abuse at meat plant is probed

• Former officers guilty in string of robberies

• In California

• Intrigue but no glamour for smuggling case figure

• The under is a good bet for Kings vs. Islanders

• TONIGHT

• Giants’ Tynes kicks the wrath of his boss aside

• Hornets’ nine-game winning streak ends

• Thornton leads what’s left of Clippers

• No All-Star glory for Thornton

• AP MEN’S TOP 25

• Trail Mix goes for fourth win in a row

• Away they go … for 15 days

• UCSB tops Riverside

• It could be a big night for Jones

• Flinch factor

• Agent: Stoudamire will join the Spurs

• University must enforce an attitude adjustment in fans

• In recruiting game plan, watch out for the reverse

• Giguere is not Wild about effort

• RESULTS, SCHEDULE

• In this city, of course, a story rises from ashes

• AP WOMEN’S TOP 25

• Collison finding his step again

• Trojans need to make a statement at home

• Moss: Packers weren’t right fit

• 1995-96 CHICAGO BULLS

• No love for this proposal

• Running game is key to Giant upset

• Background checks infuriate umpires

• Mater Dei keeps perfect record after comeback

• They’re set to tear into Rodriguez

• Kansas State ends ‘the Streak’

• NCAA settles expense suit

• Thursday’s TV highlights

• CSC to leave El Segundo

• Isuzu quitting U.S. car market

• Amazon’s net doubles in the 4th quarter

• Viewers confused on shift to DTV

• UBS posts biggest loss for a bank

• Fed rate cut may not be last

• Lilly subpoenaed on Zyprexa marketing

• LLC filing often pact with state

• Audio tech needs sound advice

• latimes.com/business

• Getting some sound advice

• Merrill to curb some securities

• Super Bowl ads playing overtime

• Keeping an ear to the ground by networking

• Bill to stem foreclosures fails in state Senate

• Boeing boosted by robust jet sales

• Wall Street gives up big gains to profit-taking after Federal Reserve lowers interest rates

• Pornographers thinking small Pornographers see little picture

• Hudson Capital to buy original Warner studio for $130 million

• Edison argues for lower fine

• Agency to revamp system for rating child car seats

• Stocks slide despite cut

• Starbucks’ expansion is losing steam

• Spending on homes falls 24% in quarter

• Slower growth forecast in Mexico

• Writers take eye off CBS

• Text of Federal Reserve’s statement

• Horoscope: Jan. 31

• La Mirada Theatre: ‘Driving Miss Daisy’

• Itzhak Perlman: Twice as nice

• First there’s ‘Smoke’

• Was this ‘House’ built in a rush?

• Calendar’s Calendar

• Girls will duke it out

• The Counter: Decisions, decisions

• Sailing takes him away-yay yay-yay-yay

• SCENESTEALER

• Black (living) history

• Untitled

• DON’T MISS

• Hotter than your school’s marching band

• Mary Gauthier: Holding a light to the dark

• They made us laugh; some made us think

• Pomme bébé feeds the wee goo-goo gourmet

• Screening Room

• Katie Cassidy

• Romanian cinema seizes the spotlight

• Five Crowns: Super take-out

• ‘All Laced Up: The Art of Corsetry’

• African American Art Festival: Stars shine

• New in town: Sgt. Recruiter

• Carina Chocano The Moon Is Blue’ ‘The Man With the Golden Arm’ ‘Last Year at Marienbad’

• Buzz Bands

• ‘Assassins’ at the Chance Theater: A Killer Musical

• A Scattered Life

• Pasadena Museum of California Art: Focus on Timothy J. Clark

• Hot Chip: The joy of repetition

• THE SHORT SET: FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK

• DON’T MISS

• The Glutton

• Roslyn Kind: Her own kind

• The Actors’ Gang: ‘Carnage’

• Chefs Eat: Annie Miler

• DON’T MISS

• go

• Little excitement on the prairie

• THE FIVE THIS WEEK: BOWLED OVER

• Costa Mesa Civic Playhouse: ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’

• DON’T MISS

• He’s got no beef with steakhouse’s sides

• Romantic comedy, with a Neil LaBute twist

• Hayao Miyazaki film fest

• No pregnant pause for ‘Juno’ soundtrack

• DON’T MISS

• Kokomo Cafe: Relocation blues

• Miley Cyrus adds notch to her multimedia belt

• Kenneth Turan 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

• ‘Eli Stone’ explores new life inside his head

• Night Lines

• It’s just, like, fashionable

• She’s not blind to her looks

• Mediterranean eateries are good for bellies

• Cutting-edge visions take shape on paper

• Lots of ‘Paranormal’ activity

• Beers, cheers and lots of TVs: Sports bars score with high def

• DON’T MISS

• Son of Semele Ensemble: ‘Melancholy Play’

• The Reel Less Traveled

• PERFORMANCE

• Baby Loves Disco: Let’s dance, baby

• Ocean Institute: Eat, drink and be jazzy

• Will L.A.’s love affair with Bond Street last longer than a New York minute?

• Josh Levenshus

• Victor Man: Transylvania blues

• ‘Lost’ in the moment

• Have a whale of a time

• UNDERRATED / OVERRATED

• THE ENABLER

• Tigers: Tracking a Legend: Fearful Symmetry

• Johnny’s Saloon: Mondays are special too

• LETTERS

• Collaborators come out from Hitchcock’s shadow

• Crash Mansion: A night at the mansion

• Some views on marriage

• Pre-code films: Talk about your snappy comebacks

• Cedric Gervais: South Beach spinner

• Matt Costa: upbeat about feeling down

• Don’t we all want to escape the bar scene?

• A ride so real you might get carsick

• 60 Seconds With … Mandy Patinkin

• Dickens’ characters never had this much fun

• David Rieff: Memoir of mom

• One rival standing, Obama takes aim

• Abortion provider must turn over files

• Bush pushes for three trade pacts

• Democrats decry Mukasey’s waterboarding silence

• John Edwards to end presidential bid

• Endorsements bring a new head of steam

• Accusations fly at debate

• ‘He did it’ quote spurs trial judge to quit case

• Calmly taking terror’s measure

• LOUISIANA

• Rival stimulus plan gains traction

• How to win a war of words

• TV, sweet TV

• Shop at homes

• Life’s a crapshoot

• Limn brings an organic slate to L.A.

• Sit on it or stare at it

• In Paris, another white house

• DATEBOOK

• Chess thrown off balance

• Makings of a calming hideaway

• Fashionable furniture

• Serenity is only a backyard away

• Tread lightly in wet weather

• Early birds miss the point

• AT LATIMES.COM/OPINION

• Never say die

• For the record

• Asking too much

• A gentler capitalism

• Primarily positive

• Wipeout

• Obamania in full swing

• Mexico’s immigrant ‘sanctuary’

• Israeli panel faults ‘06 war effort

• Afghan situation is dire, report warns

• IRAN

• China plans to halt rain for Olympics

• S. Africa’s Zuma skips event for Mike Tyson

• Mubarak holds talks on Gaza

• Sick Iraqi toddler’s heart breaks Marines’ Marines go on Operation Save a Heart for girl

• Roadside bomb kills Iraqi journalist