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All About Food: What's in your rice and juice?
As if we didn't have enough to worry about with fires, floods, hurricanes and earthquakes, now we have worry about arsenic in apple juice, grape juice and rice. Consumer Reports has been warning us about the high levels of arsenic in juice for several...
Tags: Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues, Natural Disasters, Environmental Politics
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Teaching them a love of music
Gregg Gilboe said he wanted to be a high school band director ever since his own days in his high school band. "I had so much fun in high school band, and that was my life," Gilboe said. "I wanted other people to experience that and have as much fun as I...
Tags: High Schools, Education, Teaching and Learning, Schools, Students
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Turning junk into art
The artist traced her giant baby doll concept back to when she cleared out her 10-year-old son's room of toys he no longer touched. "I had just been stashing things in his room," Joyce Dallal said, describing the size of her now 13-year-old son's past...
Tags: Toy Industry, Sculpture, Artists, Arts and Culture, Energy
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City Lights: It can all change in an instant
When Oriana Millan went home from work July 21, she left three cardboard boxes next to her desk. The receiving clerk at Westside Building Material Corporation had just been promoted, and she planned to move the contents of her desk upstairs. The next...Tags: Transportation, Salsa (genre), Metal and Mineral, Building Material, Crimes
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City enters agreement for skate park
The Huntington Beach City Council voted unanimously Friday to enter into a lease agreement with Vans to develop, run and maintain a free, world-class skate park. VF Outdoor Inc., a subsidiary of Vans' parent VF Corp., will lease the 2.7 acres on Center...Tags: Consumer Confidence, Prices, Entertainment, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, VF Corporation
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Natural Perspectives: Rainbow isn't stealing our gold
Some people in town are upset because our trash collection fees may go up.
Like other homeowners, Vic and I got the notice that the city of Huntington Beach is proposing to raise the residential trash collection fees. Vic thought the proposed fee...Tags: Waste Management and Pollution Control, Politics, Alternative Energy, Natural Gas, California
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Greer's OC: Get a taste of wine country
The fabulous wine country of Paso Robles rolls into Orange County on Thursday at a not-to-be-missed wine event at Charlie Palmer at South Coast Plaza. The second annual Stars of Paso Robles wine tasting means nearly 30 of Paso's premier winemakers are...Tags: American Red Cross, University of California, Irvine, New York, Colorado, Restaurants
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Buyers feeling more confident
MarketWatchWASHINGTON -- Consumer sentiment perked up in May to its highest level in more than six years, according to a survey released Friday, helped by falling gasoline prices, a rising stock market and firmer housing prices. The preliminary May reading of the...Tags: Thomson Corporation, Consumer Confidence, Stock Market, Economy, Business and Finance, Petroleum Industry
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California jobless rate falls to 9%
No one ever said the economic recovery would be pretty. California eked out more growth in April as employers added 10,400 jobs, bringing the net total added over the year to 273,000. The state's unemployment rate dropped to 9% from 9.4% the month...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Walmart, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Consumer Confidence, Labor Markets
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Short sales routinely show up in credit reports as foreclosures
WASHINGTON — Are large numbers of homeowners who have negotiated short sales with lenders at risk because of a startling omission in the American credit system? Do their credit reports and scores indicate that they were foreclosed upon, rather...
Tags: Foreclosures, Financial and Business Services, Real Estate, The Washington Post, Housing Industry
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Going gluten-free more common, but not necessarily easier
For more than 20 years, Kristine Kidd tasted what came her way as the food editor at Bon Appetit magazine. But she never felt great. "I had digestive issues my whole life," she says, but 21/2 years ago, the aching joints, bloating, fatigue and digestive...
Tags: Celiac Disease, Pasta, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Israel, Washington, DC
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Tesoro is cleared to buy BP's Carson refinery, Arco stations
Tesoro Corp. won federal and state clearance for its purchase of BP's Carson refinery, Arco stations and other assets for $2.4 billion, an acquisition that would further concentrate the state's fuel-making capacity into only two players — Tesoro and...
Tags: Auto Trends, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Valero LP, Global Warming, Environmental Issues
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