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"The Danger Box" by Blue Balliett
Special to the Chicago Tribune"The Danger Box" By Blue Balliett Scholastic, $16.99, 320 pages (ages 9-12) "Every book is a box of ideas. /Every book that shares secrets is a Danger Box." And thus author Blue Balliett launches our exploration into the world of Zoomy Chamberlain, a...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Nearsightedness, Frank Lloyd Wright
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66-Year-Old Wyoming Man Arrested for Sexual Assaults of Eight-year Old
News ReporterPolice in Wyoming have arrested a 66-year-old man on allegations he has committed numerous sexual assaults of a preteen victim. Charles Darwin Runion was picked up on Wednesday and faces numerous charges, including two counts of Criminal Sexual Conduct...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Sex Crimes, Wyoming, Assault
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Earth to Tim Flannery: Thank you
The 1985 celebrity-studded charity ditty written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie had a simple title and refrain: "We Are the World." The line, it now turns out, is more than just a song lyric. It's a scientific truth.
As Tim Flannery demonstrates in...Tags: Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson, Indiana Jones (fictional character), Ecosystems, Science
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Deborah Harkness' 'A Discovery of Witches' started with airport bookstores
Special to the Los Angeles TimesSometimes inspiration comes in the unlikeliest places. While vacationing in Puerto Vallarta in fall 2008, USC professor Deborah Harkness, a historian of science, was consumed with the upcoming bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth, but the rest of the...Tags: England, Davis (Yolo, California), University of Oxford, University of Southern California, Twilight (book)
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Summer family travel from A to T
Summertime and traveling can be easy -- but for families there are special considerations. Are itineraries and lodgings comfortable? Before we started a family, many of us hiked and backpacked through Europe or Asia, eating on the go and sleeping in...Tags: Walt Disney World Resort, Cruises, Rentals, Gardens and Parks, Alaska
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Book review: 'Seeing Further,' edited by Bill Bryson
Special to the Los Angeles TimesSeeing Further The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society Edited by Bill Bryson William Morrow: 506 pp., $35 There are about 1,400 people currently entitled to tack on "F.R.S." to the end of their names, possibly the world'...Tags: Science, Benjamin Franklin, Bill Bryson, Mathematics, Paul Davies
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Sounding Off: More than 300 job applications and counting
Editor's note: This is the first of two parts. The latest description of the employment challenged is the term "in transition." According to the Advanced English Dictionary, "transition" means, "A change from one place or state or subject or stage to...Tags: Career and Workplace, Employment, Defense, Armed Forces, U.S. Navy
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Blue Balliett switches setting but not adventure in 'The Danger Box'
Los Angeles TimesWhen Blue Balliett burst onto the tween literary scene with her first action-packed intellectual art mystery six years ago, it was, in every sense, a puzzler. An unknown Chicago teacher had propelled herself to the top of the country's bestseller lists...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Arts and Culture, FBI, Mystery (genre), New York
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Aardman’s next project? Pirates!
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelThose Wallace & Gromit animators at Aardman have “Arthur Christmas” due out this November. But their next announced work is“The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists.” It's the first of a planned series of Aardman films based... -
Frog without lungs, 'love dart'-shooting slug among species discovered in Borneo
L.A. UnleashedA lungless frog, a frog that flies and a slug that shoots love darts are among 123 new species found in Borneo since 2007 in a project to conserve one of the oldest rain forests in the world. A report...... -
Unnatural selection: Darwin's family tree had twisted roots
Brand XIrony of ironies: He may have been the father of evolutionary theory, but when it came to practicing what he preached, Charles Darwin seemed to have missed his own memo. Charles Darwin often expressed his worries that rather close and widespread...
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