By MELIK KAYLAN Benaki Museum, Athens Part of an encaustic icon of Christ from between the sixth and seventh centuries. New York Across from St. Patrick’s Cathedral on 52nd Street in Manhattan stands a tall, black-glass high-rise. Enter the glitzy atrium lobby, descend a flight of stairs, and quite suddenly you are enveloped by a [...]
Story By: by Nancy Shute This kid’s got the right idea: DIY dinner. Spooning strained peas into a baby is the traditional way to start solid food. But babies might be better off feeding themselves. That’s the surprising result of a new study that compared the food preferences and weight of babies who fed themselves [...]
By Elaine Lies TOKYO | Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:17am EST TOKYO (Reuters) – Green-eyed, blonde and tall, Kathy Mallory is respected and feared by the cops who work with her, described sometimes as a cat playing with a mouse and nicknamed “Mallory the Machine.” Even her creator, author Carol O’Connell, says she’s not entirely [...]
By KRIS HUDSON Developer Robert Congel’s drive to create one of the largest malls in the country, in Syracuse, N.Y., is back in gear after almost being upended by the economic downturn and a nasty court battle with Citigroup Inc. Mr. Congel’s Pyramid Cos. this year intends to complete an 850,000 square-foot expansion of its [...]
Rosie Garthwaite is no stranger to war zones and dangerous places. At the age of 22 she headed straight into the thick of things and became the only blonde in Basra, working at first for the English newspaper the Baghdad Bulletin. As the only permanently based Western journalist in the area, she then began to [...]
Story By: Talk of the Nation Linguist David Harrison has travelled to remote corners of the world seeking the last speakers of endangered languages. Now, he’s using digital tools to to record and revitalize these dying languages. At the AAAS meeting this week, Harrison unveiled ‘talking dictionaries’ for eight languages.
By TODDI GUTNER Sandra E. Peterson, 50, likes to fix things—companies, specifically. Bayer HealthCare tapped her as president of its diabetes care group in 2005 to turn around the struggling global division. Ms. Peterson, now CEO of the company’s medical division and the highest ranking executive woman in a German public company, is credited with [...]
New York: Aretha Franklin was thankful to be alive on Saturday night and thinking about lost friends, among them Whitney Houston. Hours after she canceled an appearance at Houston’s funeral because of spasms in her legs, the "Queen of Soul" (the "undisputed" Queen, the capacity audience was reminded by the show’s announcer) was quick on her [...]
Story By: Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! It’s been 10 years since Salt Lake City hosted the Winter Olympics, and the city remains a mecca for winter sports, especially for speedskating. Two-time Olympian speedskater Nick Pearson came to Salt Lake to train and compete in the 2002 Olympics and never left. We’ve invited Nick to play [...]
By TODDI GUTNER Q: I am looking for a full-time job that uses my writing, people and information-gathering talents from 25 years as a Los Angeles Times staff writer. My concern, validated by the coach at the retraining corporation, is that I am over 40. That coach actually told me to leave the dates of [...]
