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Fashion Man of the Year
Posted On: 12:06 a.m. | May 17, 2011
1967 Fashion Man of the Year Rudi Gernreich returns to Los Angeles. View Post»
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End of an era: The Sahara in Las Vegas closes after 59 years
Posted On: 5:06 p.m. | May 16, 2011
After a 59-year run, the Moroccan-themed Sahara Hotel and Casino has closed its doors. Once a hangout for Elvis Presley and the Beatles, the resort was stricken in recent years by the recession. In its heyday, the Sahara was a favorite haunt of the Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford), and Sinatra performed there. The resort even had a cameo... View Post»
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Pictures in the News | May 16, 2011
Posted On: 10:26 a.m. | May 16, 2011
We have liftoff for Monday's Pictures in the News as the space shuttle Endeavour begins its 14-day mission. Commander Mark Kelly is leading a crew of six on the shuttle's its final planned mission, delivering the $2-billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and other supplies to the International Space Station. In Europe, newspapers display coverage of the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn,... View Post»
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- JOE SKIPPER / Reuters
Endeavour’s final flight
Posted On: 8:54 a.m. | May 16, 2011
[Updated June 1, 2011] Space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts returned to Earth on Wednesday morning, closing out the next-to-last mission in NASA's 30-year program with a safe middle-of-the-night landing. The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off Monday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida; it's the final flight for Endeavour and the next-to-last shuttle flight for... View Post»
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A mountain of Red Cars
Posted On: 1:20 a.m. | May 16, 2011
Old Pacific Electric red cars sit at Terminal Island junkyard, awaiting dismantling to become scrap metal. View Post»
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In India coal towns, many miners are children
Posted On: 10:10 p.m. | May 14, 2011
Times South Asia bureau chief Mark Magnier and photojournalist Daniel Berehulak report on the mining situation in the Jaintia hills, located in India's far northeast state of Meghalaya. Thousands of underage workers as young as 8, lured by the wages, leave school to work in coal mines under perilous conditions. The country officially upholds mining safety standards and forbids child labor, but... View Post»
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- Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times
Circus Vargas comes to town
Posted On: 9:00 p.m. | May 14, 2011
They aren’t just clowning around when they say this group offers family entertainment. Katya Quiroga, a 7th-generation circus performer, and husband Nelson Quiroga, a 5th-generation Big Topper, own Circus Vargas, which has set up through Monday at a Hollywood athletic field where Sunset Boulevard crosses the Hollywood Freeway. The Quirogas’ three daughters — Graciella, 3, Daniella,... View Post»
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- DAMIR SAGOLJ / REUTERS
The Week in Pictures | May 9-15, 2011
Posted On: 6:19 p.m. | May 13, 2011
Young leopard cubs peer inquisitively from their cage at Bangkok International Airport after Thai police thwarted a high-profile attempt to smuggle rare and exotic animals to Dubai; in Kolkata, India, Trinamool Congress party supporters celebrate after early election results gave party leader Mamata Banerjee an overwhelming lead; and on the outskirts of Moscow, the next crew headed to the... View Post»
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