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• Imports drop

  - 2007-10-15

  U.S. imports have dropped 1.4 percent in what analysts say is another sign of economic problems, the Los Angeles Times reported. The downturn is being viewed as a poor harbinger for retail as the holiday season approaches. The drop "reflects the consumer-demand-driven weakness in the U.S. economy," economist Paul...

  Tags: Components, HARDWARE, Los Angeles Times, Retail, U.S.

• Hottest year on record in America now 1934 instead of 1998

  - 2007-09-17

  Do you remember being told that 1998 was the warmest year on record in the United States? Well, we shouldn't hear that particular claim in connection with the global-warming debate any longer. As reported by ala August 15 Los Angeles Times article: "A slight adjustment to U.S. temperature records has...

  Tags: adjustment, Los Angeles Times, NASA, U.S.

• PERSPECTIVES

  - 2007-05-07

  I didn't go down shooting like a Rambo GI Jane. Former U.S. soldier Jessica Lynch , debunking tales of her heroism in Iraq propagated by the military "Given another life, I think he'd have been a farmer." David Wilson , a farmer near the royal family's...

  Tags: estate, Los Angeles Times, Manufacturing, Newsweek, U.S.

• PERSPECTIVES.(Quotation)(Brief article)

  - 2007-05-07

  Byline: Quotation Sources from top to bottom: New York Times, Newsweek, CNN, AP, New York Times, Los Angeles Times I didn't go down shooting like a Rambo GI Jane. Former U.S. soldier Jessica Lynch , debunking tales of her heroism ...

  Tags: Los Angeles Times, Manufacturing, New York Times Co., U.S.

• Three of Four Newspapers Studied Favor Israeli Instead of Palestinian Sources

  - 2006-10-01

  A reporter for The Los Angeles Times wrote about the Israeli and Palestinian conflict: If a picture is worth a thousand words, a thousand pictures just might win the war ... Every photograph-and indeed, every word-is a weapon in the media U.S. newspapers are directly involved in this media war....

  Tags: Government, Israel, Los Angeles Times, MARKETING, New York Times Co., U.S.

• Malaysia's Mahathir admits $1.2 mil. paid for meeting with Bush

  - 2006-02-27

  KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 21 Kyodo Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has admitted that a $1.2 million lobbying fee was paid to secure a meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush at the White House in 2002, local dailies reported Tuesday. Mahathir, who was then still...

  Tags: Government, Leadership, Los Angeles Times, Malaysia, SOFTWARE, U.S., White House

• Comics pages make room for manga

  - 2005-12-29

  The doe-eyed characters from the Japanese-style cartoons known as manga are infiltrating another segment of American culture. Newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer begin carrying a manga strip called Peach Fuzz in their Sunday comic sections on Jan. 8. Other newspapers in the USA...

  Tags: Los Angeles Times, Manga, MARKETING, U.S.

• Perspectives.

  - 2004-09-20

  Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: New York Times (2), Los Angeles Times, BBC Online, Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph "Who is guilty?" Text on the front page of Russian newspaper Vechernaya Moskva, referring to the recent school massacre...

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• Abuses by U.S. forces in Iraq included stripping women: report

  - 2004-05-10

  LOS ANGELES, May 4 Kyodo U.S. military police personnel mentally and physically abused detainees in Iraq by videotaping and photographing them, both male and female, nude as well as intimidating them with military dogs, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday citing a U.S. military report. ...

  Tags: Iraq, Los Angeles Times, U.S., women

• Stealth Islamist: Khaled Abou El Fadl.

  - 2004-03-22

  Which Muslims in the West support Islamism; which do not? Those who have Al-Qaeda connections or deal in terrorism are relatively easy to classify, once they are found out. The state has ways to investigate and punish illegal activities. In September 2003, for example,...

  Tags: Al-Qaeda, Government, Islamist, Los Angeles Times, punishment, terrorism, U.S.