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Mechanical issues delay USNS Mercy's departure
SAN DIEGO - The Navy announced Tuesday on its Pacific Partnership Twitter account that USNS Mercy had mechanical problems that will delay the vessel's departure for 48 hours. The guided-missile frigate USS Vandegrift departed Naval Station San Diego on a...
Tags: Science and Technology, U.S. Army, Singapore, Malaysia, Military Equipment
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Fake, faulty malaria drugs alarmingly common, study finds
World NowMore than one-third of malaria medicines tested in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were fake or faulty, according to a new study that warns shoddy drugs could fuel the rise of hardier parasites.... -
Obama awards Vietnam War-era rifleman a posthumous Medal of Honor
This post has been corrected. Please see note at bottom for details.President Obama awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor to a Vietnam-era warrior Wednesday, commemorating his bravery as well as a generation of veterans often forgotten, even shunned, by the nation they served. Obama presented the medal to the widow of...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Human Interest, White House, Joe Biden, Jill Biden
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Not Just for Kids: 'Never Fall Down' details horrors of Khmer Rouge
Los Angeles TimesNever Fall Down A Novel Patricia McCormick Balzer + Bray: 224 pp., $17.99, ages 14 and up When it comes to genocide, Hitler is obviously well covered. There are countless titles for young readers about the atrocities he inspired. The Khmer Rouge,...Tags: Hate Crimes, Human Interest, Genocide, Massacres, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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On Sunday: Alain Mabanckou, Jonathan Franzen and lumber as history
Jacket CopyIn Sunday books: a talk with UCLA author Alain Mabanckou, plus reviews of the latest by Jonathan Franzen, lumber as history and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's letters and diaries.... -
Filmmakers 'appalled' by process in White House video contest
Anida Yoeu Ali and Masahiro Sugano were excited when they heard about the White House video contest on issues affecting Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. They spent two weeks putting together a three-minute film on the plight of Cambodian deportees,...Tags: Human Interest, Movies, Voting, Immigration, Fenway Park
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Cambodia's looted treasures
During the Cambodian civil war from 1970 to 1998, the Khmer Rouge and other paramilitary groups began decimating that country's ancient sites in search of treasures to sell on the international art market. Along with arms dealing and drug smuggling, the...
Tags: Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Organized Crime, Auction Service, Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture
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Southeast Asian sweets add variety to life
Special to the Los Angeles TimesFresh mango glistening the brilliant orange of a late-summer sun, glutinous rice balls glowing a radiant pandan green, tender taro cakes blooming the same piercing purple as a field of lilacs. Bhan Kanom Thai is a rainbow rush of colors. The Hollywood...Tags: Coconut, Restaurants, Yams, Mangos, Laos
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Feds vs. Sotheby's: Antiquity looted in Cambodia, complaint says
Federal agents have threatened to seize from Sotheby's a 10th-century Cambodian sandstone statue, alleging the auction house planned to sell it despite warnings that looters had stolen the piece from its rightful place, adorning an ancient temple in the...
Tags: Theft, Sculpture, Auction Service, Arts and Culture, Arts
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Want to scare 'The River' star Leslie Hope? Just add water
RedEyeCheck out the travels of Leslie Hope of ABC’s paranormal hit, “The River,” and you get the impression that very little scares the Canadian actress. Long before “The River” came along, when she was playing Teri Bauer on...Tags: ABC (tv network), Human Interest, Scott Michael Foster, Documentary (genre), Upstream Oil and Gas Activities
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Tags: France, Robert F. Kennedy, International Military Interventions, Central Bank, Democratic Party
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Science Connections: Evolutionary Adventures
TribLocal - EvanstonGary Galbreath is a detective and an adventurer. But the mysteries he solves are evolutionary, and the treasure he seeks is the ever-elusive new species. …...
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