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From the William J. Clinton Foundation web site:
If you are an undergraduate, graduate or professional student or a recent graduate with your own strong interest in crucial issues of our day, the Clinton Foundation Intern Program offers a unique opportunity for growth, learning and meaningful service. We are looking for people who are dependable, enthusiastic, [...]

On the front page of the Los Angeles Times’ obituary of former publisher Otis Chandler is a photo credited as dating from 1959, the year before he became publisher. Yet on the bulletin board he is holding, a tabloid-size newspaper has a headline reading “Otis Chandler Named Fourth Publisher in Times’ 79 Years.” That would [...]

Who is Christopher Arellano you ask? Well he’s running for Los Angeles School Board–a $7 billion bureaucracy. The Los Angeles Times shrewdly asked him and the other candidates running for the position to solve a simple algebraic equation. This is not an inappropriate or rhetorical question as the Times had previously discovered that many LAUSD [...]

In a moment of intense irony, the CBS 2 6 pm weather report was taken over by the National Weather Service suggesting viewers turn to their local broadcast stations for information relating to flash flood conditions in the Los Angeles area. Weathercaster Johnny Mountain’s audio was knocked out by the taped NWS message exactly at [...]

Whatever sacrifices were made to the weather gods to ensure a successful inaugural Amgen Tour of California paid off.
What could have been a week of pneumonia-inducing wind and rain instead turned into an extended postcard of spectacular scenery and generally nice weather.
The highlight was stage four, along Highway 1 from Monterey to San Luis Obispo. [...]

So what’s under those burkas anyway?

In the case of Deeyah, it’s this. (Requires QuickTime).

OK, here’s the back story which we got from her MySpace page:
Enigmatic, intelligent and sexy, 27 year old Deeyah is a truly international artist with global star appeal. Dubbed “The Muslim Madonna” by the UK broadsheet The Mail on Sunday, Deeyah [...]

Boston University researchers report that smokers are 70% more likely to have root canals than nonsmokers.
From WebMD:

Root canals are done when a tooth’s dental pulp — which includes nerves, blood vessels, and connective tissue — becomes infected and inflamed. The infected tissue is removed, and then the hollow area is cleansed and filled to prevent [...]

OK, I missed Valentine’s Day, but it’s still funny…
Little Thelma comes home from first grade and tells her father that they learned about the history of Valentine’s Day. And, “Since Valentine’s Day is for a Christian saint and we’re Jewish,” she asks, “will God get mad at me for giving someone a valentine?
Thelma’s [...]

Some people think that the U.S. and/or Israel will soon bomb Iran. They suggest we look to see which of the following “tell-tale” signs are evident:
1. – The U.S. Navy stages a “surge exercise” and moves six carrier battle groups into the Indian Ocean.
2. – A “regularly scheduled exercise” moves Patriot Missile Batteries to Iraq, [...]

San Franciscans may not want the battleship Iowa anywhere near their city, but it looks like she would be welcome in Moscow … yes, that Moscow.
The BBC reports that these posters appeared around the Russian capital in preparation for Defender of the Motherland day:

The problem: that’s the Iowa’s sister ship, the USS Missouri — not [...]

In Malibu, intoxicated Ferrari drivers total $1m cars; in Redondo Beach, the price tag is only $180,000, and so they don’t get coverage in the Los Angeles Times.
From the South Bay’s Easy Reader (not yet online):
On February 14 at about 5:30 pm officers responded to an injury collision at the corner of Reed Street [...]

By now you’ve heard the story about the red Ferrari Enzo (one of only 400 ever made) demolished on Pacific Coast Highway after crashing into a telephone pole at an estimated 120+ miles per hour. The driver of the car, Stefan Eriksson, subsequently ran into the local hills and was only found a few hours [...]

Off topic:
… A quantum computer program has produced an answer without actually running.
The idea behind the feat, first proposed in 1998, is to put a quantum computer into a “superposition”, a state in which it is both running and not running … With the right set-up, the theory suggested, the computer would sometimes get an [...]

From Gizmodo:

The RIAA seems to be changing its annoying tune these days, saying that ripping a CD that is lawfully yours to your own MP3 player is no longer fair game. During the US Supreme Court Grokster case, the RIAA made sure to tell us that this was OK and that they loved us. However, [...]