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HIV used to cure blood disorder
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFor the second time, researchers have used the HIV virus in gene therapy to cure a severe genetic disease, this time the blood disorder beta-thalassemia, which causes life-threatening anemia. French researchers had previously used a "defanged" version of...Tags: AIDS, Blood Cells, HIV, Diseases and Illnesses, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Howard Zinn dies at 87; author of best-selling 'People's History of the United States'
Howard Zinn, a professor, author and social activist who inspired a generation on the American left and whose book "A People's History of the United States" sold more than 1 million copies and redefined the historical role of working-class people as...Tags: U.S. Army, Columbia University, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Brooklyn (New York City), World War II (1939-1945)
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art turns 75 with a splash
When Grace McCann Morley became director of the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1935, she knew what she wanted to focus on: the art of her time. "If art of today is today overlooked or misunderstood, the loss is serious," she once wrote. "Art fails then to...Tags: Andy Warhol, University of California, Berkeley, Dining and Drinking, Frida Kahlo, Ansel Adams
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Claude Levi-Strauss dies at 100; French philosopher's ideas transformed anthropology
Claude Levi-Strauss, the French philosopher widely considered the father of modern anthropology because of his then-revolutionary conclusion that so-called primitive societies did not differ greatly intellectually from modern ones, died Friday at his home...Tags: Awards and Prizes, France, New York, Science and Technology, Nicolas Sarkozy
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Book review: 'William Golding: The Man Who Wrote "Lord of the Flies" '
William Golding
The Man Who Wrote 'Lord of the Flies': A Life
John Carey
Free Press: 574 pp., $32.50
William Golding, the writer, has been a subject for study: reviews and critical essays, a bibliography and more than 100 books about the books....Tags: Awards and Prizes, Los Angeles Times, Newspaper and Magazine, Nobel Prize Awards, Robert Frost
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Dr. Jean Dausset dies at 92; scientist's discovery made tissue typing for transplants possible
Dr. Jean Dausset, the French Nobel laureate who discovered the human leukocyte antigen, or HLA, system on human tissue that made tissue typing for transplants possible, died June 6 in Mallorca, Spain. He was 92. The HLA antigens are molecules on the...Tags: DNA, Blood Cells, Diseases and Illnesses, Drugs and Medicines, Awards and Prizes
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Maurice Grimaud dies at 95; former Paris police chief
Associated PressMaurice Grimaud, who as Paris police chief played a key role in avoiding major bloodshed during France's student uprising in May 1968, has died. He was 95. Grimaud died July 16, Paris police headquarters said; the cause of death was not specified. He was...Tags: Nicolas Sarkozy, Career and Workplace, Paris (France), French Literature, Obituaries
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Joni on Point
Though her 1968 debut album, Song to a Seagull, was no small feat of folk glory, it was by Joni Mitchell’s third and fourth releases—Ladies of the Canyon and Blue—that her status as one of the most significant songwriters of her generation was cemented....Tags: Stevie Nicks, Janet Jackson, Music Industry, George W. Bush, Leonard Cohen
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Barbara Lauwers Podoski dies at 95; launched psychological campaign against Germans in WWII
Barbara Lauwers Podoski, who launched one of the most successful psychological campaigns of World War II, which resulted in the surrender of more than 600 Czechoslovakian soldiers fighting for the Germans, died of cardiovascular disease Aug. 16 at the...Tags: The Washington Post, Central Intelligence Agency, World War II (1939-1945), Defense, New York
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Paris Fashion Week: Givenchy gets religion
All The RageThe powerful waft of incense should have tipped us off, especially when paired with the awe-inspiring beauty of the second-floor ballroom at La Sorbonne, with its high, artwork-covered ceiling and ornate gilded fixtures evoking a sense of sacred place.... -
EGYPT: Moderate cleric the front-runner in race to take over powerful Sunni Muslim post
Babylon & BeyondA moderate cleric is in line to assume a powerful post in the Sunni Muslim world. The sudden death of Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, the top cleric at Al Azhar in Cairo, on Wednesday has prompted instant speculation on who...... -
EGYPT: Mubarak names new Al Azhar top cleric
Babylon & BeyondEgyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Friday named Ahmed Tayeb as the new head of Al Azhar, Sunni Islam's most influential institution, which includes a university and a research center. Tayeb has presided over Al Azhar's university since 2003 and will........
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