If you look in L.A., plenty of noir is still there
LOS ANGELES — It was a dank, rain-sodden Raymond Chandler kind of morning, as if some omnipotent auteur had rung up the studio and ordered a classic film noir sky....
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Fruit fight
Who says you can't compare apples and oranges? We're doing it in this quiz, analyzing the nutrients in each fruit (a 3-inch diameter apple and a 2 7/8-inch orange). Play...
Get to know amino acids
Go into any health food store or pharmacy, and you're liable to see large plastic tubs in the supplement aisle promoting amino acids. Wait, don't we get enough amino acids...
Can Giggling Bring Good Health?
Talk turned serious -- painfully so, at times -- during the two hours of group discussion. Dr. Topher Stephenson, sitting ramrod-straight in the physician's archetypal white coat, knitted his brows...
Laughter each day might keep the doctor away
Talk turned serious -- painfully so, at times -- during the two hours of group discussion. Dr. Topher Stephenson, sitting ramrod-straight in the physician's archetypal white coat, knitted his brows...
BLEAK OUTLOOK FOR BASEBALL
Charles Dickens' "Bleak House" reminds me of baseball's ongoing labor ordeal. It's the story of a contentious lawsuit that lasts so long that no one even remembers the original complaint....
NOT A SPITTING IMAGE
Rachel Robinson knows. She was there beside her husband (Jackie) throughout the ordeal of his first two seasons, when he promised Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey he would avoid confrontations...
LEWIS IS THE KING OF CRASS
Amazing, isn't it, how quickly gold can tarnish, how a memorable Olympic moment can turn into a shameless act of self-promotion in the time it takes to, say, run a...