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...that Kemp sought to build bridges across racial lines solely for political gain, would ignore much of his 73 years. After growing up in largely white LA of the 1940s, he confronted racial prejudice as a young professional quarterback playing games occasionally in the Jim Crow South. When his (then) Los Angeles Chargers traveled to Houston for a 1960 game, the team had to stay at University of Houston dorms because no hotels would accept black players. Kemp joined other teammates in bolting a movie theater that restricted black members to the balcony. Four years later, Kemp arrived...
...exactly going to be stranded on the island à la Tom Hanks in Castaway? Oh no, my girlfriend is looking forward to it! She's coming out for the full six months and friends and family can drop in as they see fit. My aim is for other people to be ambassadors for the Barrier Reef...
...have memory that goes for generations. I was struck by an LA Times article that I saw from 1886, after the Los Angeles housing bubble. The writer said something like Californians have learned. Never again will we allow real estate speculation to go so far. And he was kind of right. I don't think California had another massive real estate bubble until the 1970s. After a hundred years, we're allowed to forget, right...
...signs of health troubles up to two weeks ahead of official health reports, giving communities precious time to protect themselves and hopefully contain the spread of an infectious disease like influenza. Another surveillance company, Veratect, based in Kirkland, Wash., says it picked up the first signs of H1N1 in La Gloria, in Veracruz state, Mexico, as early as April 6, when it received reports of a "strange" respiratory illness there - some 18 days before the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the rest of the country, was alerted to the existence of the new virus...
...formula is working. Offering tickets from as low as $15, the ENO balances popular appeal with innovation. It is best known for singing foreign operas in English and setting classics in the more recent past - last season saw Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème staged in the fragile interwar period of 1930s Paris. But while other European opera houses experiment with extreme directorial conceits - Germany's Komische Oper recently performed Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio in an S&M torture chamber - the ENO has found a way to make old favorites feel revitalized rather than remade. "We have...