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    Jul 27, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. In Uganda, family planning programs for women help save gorillas

    BUHOMA, Uganda — As a wildlife veterinarian for the Ugandan government, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka had dedicated her life to saving the mountain gorilla.
    BUHOMA, Uganda — As a wildlife veterinarian for the Ugandan government, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka had dedicated her life to saving the mountain gorilla. She soon realized that if these rare great apes were to survive, she would need to focus on a much...

    Tags: Uganda, Diseases and Illnesses, Forestry and Timber, Hospitals and Clinics, Conservation

    2. Apr 12, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  2. The GSA scandal and throwback civil service culture

    By now you've likely heard about the infamous Las Vegas convention bash during which federal civil servants at the General Services Administration indulged in various frivolities to the tune of $823,000 of your money. That conference featured, among other things, a hired professional clown -- which is like Picasso hiring some guy from out of the Yellow Pages to paint a mural.
    By now you've likely heard about the infamous Las Vegas convention bash during which federal civil servants at the General Services Administration indulged in various frivolities to the tune of $823,000 of your money. That conference featured, among other...

    Tags: Civil and Public Service, Photography Supplies and Services, Charity, Awards and Prizes, Politics

    3. Nov 17, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  3. Gorilla trek [Journey to Rwanda]

    Opinion L.A.
    Sue Horton, Op-Ed and Sunday Opinion editor of The Times, is in Rwanda on a two-week Gatekeeper Editor fact-finding trip organized by the International Reporting Project. She is chronicling her trip on the Opinion L.A. blog. We were outside the......
    4. Aug 24, 2011 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  4. Afternoon Awwwww: Baby gorilla

    Kabatwa, a silverback mountain gorilla, carries her twins in the Virunga Mountains, just outside Volcanoes National Park in <span class="st">Rwanda</span>. The babies were born in February. According to a 2010 census, the total number of mountain gorillas has increased by a quarter over the past seven years to reach more than 780 individuals. Two-thirds of them are found in the Virunga chain that straddles Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. They were brought to the world's attention primatologist Dian Fossey.
    The Baltimore Sun
    Kabatwa, a silverback mountain gorilla, carries her twins in the Virunga Mountains, just outside Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda. The babies were born in February. According to a 2010 census, the total number of mountain gorillas has increased by a...

    Tags: Rwanda, 2010 Census

    5. Dec 9, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  5. 'Avatar' star Sigourney Weaver as queen of sci-fi: 'Outer space has been good to me' [UPDATED]

    The Hero Complex
    "AVATAR" COUNTDOWN: 10 DAYS You may have heard about a little film called "Avatar" that opens Dec. 18. We're counting down the days here at Hero Complex and today we bring you a conversation with Sigourney Weaver, arguably the greatest......
    6. Sep 17, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  6. Nick Cassavetes sues New Line: What's the real backstory?

    The Big Picture
    Sometimes you have to wonder if Variety is in the business of reporting the news or just reporting as little of the news as possible. That would be my take-away from the trade paper's coverage of a nasty little lawsuit......
    7. Aug 8, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. 'Bad Penny,' 'Suddenly Last Summer,' 'Desert Sunrise' and 'Just Like White People'

    "A bad penny always turns up" is a platitude that packs an unexpected existential punch, at least in the sardonic world of New York playwright Mac Wellman. In Wellman's Obie Award-winning short play, the titular "Bad Penny" opens a portal to the metaphysical abyss that yawns beneath the banality of a summer's day in Central Park -- and, by extension, beneath a society shaped by clich&#233;d thought.
    "A bad penny always turns up" is a platitude that packs an unexpected existential punch, at least in the sardonic world of New York playwright Mac Wellman. In Wellman's Obie Award-winning short play, the titular "Bad Penny" opens a portal to the...

    Tags: Lion (animal), Montana, Death, Judaism, Central Park

    8. Jan 22, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Best films for a vicarious voyage

    Sometimes, when winter lingers in your bones, you probably wish you could get out of Dodge. You long to fly to distant places for great, soul-stirring adventures and palate-pleasing meals bursting with foreign flavors. But how can you travel without plane tickets, reservations and a quantity of disposable income?
    Special to The Times
    Sometimes, when winter lingers in your bones, you probably wish you could get out of Dodge. You long to fly to distant places for great, soul-stirring adventures and palate-pleasing meals bursting with foreign flavors. But how can you travel without plane...

    Tags: Movies, Animals, Ry Cooder, Entertainment, Elizabeth Taylor

    9. Mar 18, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. F. Clark Howell, 81; redefined anthropology

    Times Staff Writer
    F. Clark Howell, the UC Berkeley anthropologist who altered the landscape of his discipline irrevocably by adding a broad spectrum of modern sciences to the traditional "stones and bones" approach of the past, died March 10 at his home in Berkeley....

    Tags: Science, Animals, World War II (1939-1945), Death, Oakland Athletics

    10. Nov 30, 2003 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Misty-eyed on a search for gorillas in Bwindi

    Chicago Tribune
    Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda You wake up fast when there's a 400-pound gorilla standing outside your tent. "Ruth!" I called over in something of a whisper-yell to the woman in the tent next to mine. "Ruth! Wake up! There's a gorilla out...

    Tags: Uganda, Diseases and Illnesses, Animals, Los Angeles International Airport, Hospitals and Clinics

    11. Apr 17, 2001 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  11. Swirls of African sand become fiercest hurricanes

    South Florida Sun-Sentinel
    Every half hour, he climbs the steps of a worn lookout tower at the dusty airfield and squints into the distance over a land of scrub brush and desert dunes. His eyes are his radar. His nose is a barometer. His body instinctively measures the force of...

    Tags: Career and Workplace, Employees, Death, Meteorological Disasters, Weather Statistics

    12. Apr 6, 2000 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. A Map of the World

    TIMES STAFF WRITER
    Friday December 3, 1999      The title of the powerful "A Map of the World" refers to a drawing a child makes to try to grasp where her dying mother might be going. Now as an adult, Sigourney Weaver's Alice Goodwin finds herself heading into uncharted...

    Tags: Racine (Racine, Wisconsin), Pat Metheny, Death, Marc Donato, Eleanor Roosevelt

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