A feminist take on Orwell’s ‘1984’ reads like the original — only better
Speculative novelist Sandra Newman recast's '1984' (with the blessing of George Orwell's estate) as 'Julia,' a feminist spin on the dystopian classic.
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Profiles of people living in homeless encampments. It’s rarely what you’d expect
Three men who have been staying in the tent city outside the Venice library branch talk about how they came to be there and how they see their futures.
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Why do so many L.A. apartments come without fridges? Inside the chilling mystery
Why do tenants have to bring their own refrigerators to rent apartments in Los Angeles?
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Intensified by climate change, Western megadrought is worst in 1,200 years, study finds
The West is experiencing its most severe megadrought in a millennium, according to a new study. Scientists say climate change is playing a major role.
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Western megadrought is worst in 1,200 years, intensified by climate change, study finds
The West is experiencing its most severe megadrought in a millennium, according to a new study. Scientists say climate change is playing a major role.
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Firefighting foam leaves toxic legacy in Californians’ drinking water
The Los Angeles Times reviewed hundreds of pages of Pentagon documents and found California has more bases contaminated with the chemicals, known as PFAS, than any other state — at least 21 that exceed federal health guidelines.
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Meet the neglected 43-year-old stepchild of the U.S. military industrial complex
A leaky, fire-prone icebreaking ship slogs 11,500 miles from Seattle to Antarctica yearly to reach scientific bases. This year's trip was especially grueling.
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Meet the neglected 43-year-old stepchild of the U.S. military-industrial complex
A leaky, fire-prone icebreaking ship slogs 11,500 miles from Seattle to Antarctica yearly to reach scientific bases. This year's trip was especially grueling.
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Sikh drivers are transforming U.S. trucking. Take a ride along the Punjabi American highway
For one Sikh trucker driver, long hours on the road provide time for reflection. “When I’m driving,” he says, “I see God through his creation.”
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Bullet-train land acquisitions are moving so slowly a judge hearing the cases calls it a ‘lifetime job'
To build the bullet train, the state must complete the biggest government taking of private property for a single project in recent California history. It's slow-going.
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Apple takes its eye off the ball: Why Apple fans are really coming to hate Apple software
There always have been two great virtues in Apple 's policy of keeping the development of hardware and core software in-house: their seamless integration with each other and their quality.
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If America’s public lands were a business, the GOP would be bungling the balance sheet
If America’s public lands were a business, shareholders would be shocked by the gross negligence of some of their top executives.
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Climate change is real: Just ask the Pentagon
A bitter wind blew across Sewell’s Point on a recent afternoon as ocean waves crashed against a concrete pier where two black attack submarines were tied up for the day.
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The High Sierra forest is dying, and you can't count the loss in dead trees
Some years ago — almost 20, actually — my wife and I made it a habit to leave the city in August and head for the High Sierra. Our destination has always been a lake edged by cabins , 60 miles east of Fresno, just south of Yosemite and just north of Sequoia.
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A 'slow catastrophe' unfolds as the golden age of antibiotics comes to an end
In early April, experts at a military lab outside Washington intensified their search for evidence that a dangerous new biological threat had penetrated the nation’s borders.
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The dying breed of craftsmen behind the tools that make scientific research possible
Hunkered down in the sub-basement of the Norman W. Church Laboratory for Chemical Biology, underneath a campus humming with quantum teleportation devices, gravity wave detectors and neural prosthetics, Rick Gerhart chipped away at a broken flask.
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Caltech glassblower's retirement has scientists sighing
Hunkered down in the sub-basement of the Norman W. Church Laboratory for Chemical Biology, underneath a campus humming with quantum teleportation devices, gravity wave detectors and neural prosthetics, Rick Gerhart chipped away at a broken flask.
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Surfing icon Laird Hamilton shares his 10-point plan to live forever
Perpetual youth is a whimsical notion suited to screen writers and 16th century Spanish explorers but a career requirement for Laird Hamilton.