ENTERTAINMENT
March 11, 2012 | By Wendy Smith, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Eisenhower in War and Peace Jean Edward Smith Random House: 944 pp., $40 Jean Edward Smith's massive work, the first comprehensive biography of Dwight D. Eisenhowersince Stephen Ambrose's two-volume work in the 1980s, joins a flurry of recent books - grandson David Eisenhower's affectionate memoir ("Going Home to Glory"), L.A. Times editor at large Jim Newton's presidential portrait ("Eisenhower: The White House Years"), and scholar David A. Nichols' study of the Suez crisis ("Eisenhower 1956")
NATIONAL
January 4, 2012 | By Mark Z. Barabak and Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times
A shrunken field of GOP presidential hopefuls descended on New Hampshire on Wednesday, the next test in the party's nominating fight, as Mitt Romney sought to bolster his status as front-runner and establishment favorite. A day after winning the Iowa caucuses by the slimmest margin in history - eight votes - Romney signaled that party ranks were closing and used a morning TV interview to contrast the breadth and strength of his campaign with the hand-to-mouth candidacy of Rick Santorum, Iowa's runner-up.
BUSINESS
November 25, 2011 | By W.J. Hennigan, Los Angeles Times
Battlefield technology is coming to the streets of Los Angeles County. Starting this month, one of the nation's major military contractors is outfitting the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department's patrol cars with sophisticated computer systems and high-tech gadgetry that has been perfected for the battlefield. At a total cost to taxpayers of $20 million, Raytheon Co. promises to deliver technology that will enable deputies on the road to sort through key intelligence information in mere seconds, where it once took hours or days.
IMAGE
October 9, 2011 | Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Over the centuries, at the same time military might has been building borders, shaping national identities and protecting ways of life, it's also been building our wardrobes, shaping our silhouettes and taking fledgling brands to the front lines of fashion — for men and women. Indeed, war's contributions to the world's closets are too numerous for a definitive list — bomber jackets, combat boots, epaulets, raglan sleeves and pea coats, anyone? But here are a few highlights. Khaki trousers: The beige twill trousers known as "khakis" (derived from the Hindi word for dust)
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 30, 2011 | By Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times
A wall-mounted computer screen in the call center at L.A. County/USC Medical Center showed the emergency room was full. Ambulances were supposed to take patients elsewhere on this Friday night. But they kept coming — some because it was the closest ER, others because the injuries were so severe only a trauma center could handle them. "We get them from outside hospitals, from clinics, from the field, from the jail, from police, from everywhere — everywhere," said Alma Aviles, a nurse supervisor.
BUSINESS
September 28, 2011 | By W.J. Hennigan, Los Angeles Times
Military mobile apps may one day help soldiers on the battlefield. Engineers and researchers at Boeing Co. and MIT have developed an iPhone application to fly a miniature drone rotorcraft from some 3,000 miles away. It just takes a few taps and swipes of the operator's finger in Seattle to make a drone at a baseball field on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Mass., start to hover, rotate and zip around. "These applications could allow [drones] to be used more effectively for tasks that are dirty or dangerous, as well as for missions that may be too long and tedious to have a human be continuously at the controls," the company said on its website.