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The orgy of literary treasures bought at Sotheby's auction
Hold on to your hats: Things are about to get hot around here. Hot, that is, for people who love books, who covet literary rarities and whose pulses race at the thought of holding a first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" in their very...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Arts and Culture, Authors, Google+
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Desmond Tutu's plea: Stand up for Liu Xiaobo
By all reports, when President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in California this week for their first summit, their most important task will be to establish a strong rapport so they can manage the increasingly critical and complex U.S.-...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Barack Obama, Columbia University, United Nations, Politics
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2013 Borlaug Communication Award goes to Elanco president
Ames, Iowa - The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) announces that the prestigious 2013 Borlaug CAST Communication Award goes to Jeff Simmons, the president of Elanco. Nominees must demonstrate an ability to communicate by written...Tags: Entertainment Events, Awards and Prizes, Heifer International, Science and Technology
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North Korea changes course, calls for talks with South
SEOUL -- In a sudden change of heart, North Korea called Thursday for talks with South Korea about reopening a shuttered industrial park and restarting tourist exchanges and reunions of separated families. Seoul almost immediately accepted, setting...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Barack Obama, Tourism and Leisure, North Korea, Xi Jinping
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Michael Douglas clarifies oral sex cancer comments; interviewer stands by his story
Zap2itMichael Douglas had the internet all abuzz Monday (June 3) when he seemingly said in an interview with The Guardian that his throat cancer was caused by HPV (human papillomavirus, which he said one contracts from cunnilingus. Now Douglas' rep has...Tags: Michael Douglas, Entertainment Events, Substance Abuse, Throat Cancer, Awards and Prizes
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Amos Oz wins Kafka Prize – could the Nobel be next?
Israeli author Amos Oz has been named the recipient of the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize, selected by an international jury from a short list of 12 globally recognized writers. The $10,000 prize, awarded by the Franz Kafka Society in the Czech Republic,...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Entertainment Events, Czech Republic, Judaism, Arts and Culture
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Anchee Min on her memoir, "The Cooked Seed"
In “Red Azalea,” her best-selling 1994 memoir, Anchee Min told the compelling story of her childhood and early adulthood in China during the Cultural Revolution. The daughter of former teachers who were reassigned to jobs as manual laborers in...Tags: Entertainment Events, The Wall Street Journal, Dentistry and Dental Health, Literature, USA Today
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Heinrich Rohrer dies at 79; a father of nanotechnology
The electron microscope revolutionized biology in the 1930s by providing magnifications thousands of times higher than that of light microscopes, allowing scientists to discern the inner workings of cells for the first time. But it was not nearly as...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Physical Conditions, Nanotechnology, Technology, Consumer Goods Industries
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Friday's TV Highlights: 'Blue Bloods' on CBS
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 5 - 11, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Undercover Boss The new episode...
Tags: Patricia Heaton, Katie McGrath, Zachary Quinto, Robert Downey Jr., Interior Policy
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Dr. Christian de Duve dies at 95; Nobel-winning scientist
For the first half of the 20th century, the cell was a mysterious, unfathomable entity. Nutrients went in and hormones, wastes and other products came out. But what happened in between was anybody's guess. Light microscopes could reveal the rough...Tags: Entertainment Events, Biology, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Physiology, Science and Technology
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