Here’s Why 007 Is Such a Fine Role Model: Seat Belt Usage
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When School Children Got Murdered In Stockton, CA
Twenty-Four Years Ago, Another Massacre Left People Asking Why—For a While. Will We Do Better This Time?
by Eric Tang|
In a statement following the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that took the lives of twenty children and six adults, President Obama made a decided shift. He chose not to use the words “random” and “senseless”—terms that civic leaders deploy after incidents such as this to cover for our collective speechlessness, terms that suggest inexplicable forces and end to questioning. In the hours after the shooting, the president seemed …
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In the Green Room
LAT Architecture Critic Christopher Hawthorne
Christopher Hawthorne is the architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times. Before moderating a panel at Grand Park on the future of downtown Los Angeles, he pledged his loyalty to Peet’s coffee as a show …
In the Green Room
NASA Mohawk Guy
Bobak Ferdowsi, also known as, “NASA Mohawk Guy,” is flight director of the Mars Curiosity rover. Before participating in a panel on what we stand to lose if we don’t go to space, he sat down in …
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Name That Tune: Da-Da-Da-DUM
They may be the most easily recognizable four notes of music ever composed, but the opening of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony confounds orchestras and conductors with its very notation: a rest that Boston Globe music critic …
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Are Christmas Toys Dead?
It’s the time of year to give kids toys, and if you’re one of the shoppers trying to please them, you deserve even more sympathy and pity than your parents did. Kids today are different. …
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Should You See This Gruesome Image?
Last March, responding to news of a killing, I found myself walking in the darkness at a crime scene in Quila, a small community outside Culiacán in Sinaloa, the state that is ground zero in …
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When—And When Not—To Show the Blood
William Snyder, a four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, is a former director of photography at the Dallas Morning News and current chair of the photojournalism program at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Recently, photographer Louie Palu …
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