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• Cyber-attack prompts beer shortage, panic

  By Editor on January 19, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  LOS ANGELES – Experts warned that a cyber-attack against the largest beer brewers last week has led to a dramatic decrease in the amount of ale projected to be produced this year and prompted a run on beer that has… Read More ›

• Guest commentary: Smart phones are making students stupid

  By Editor on December 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Recently my American Literature high school students studied plot reversals, the unexpected twists that occur in fiction. We read and analyzed “Solipsist,” a one-page story published in 1954 by Fredric Brown. In the story, a character named Walter B. Jehovah… Read More ›

• Author’s ‘ghost’ reminds students to floss, be kind

  By Editor on November 19, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  WESTWOOD – A college crowd that gathered to watch a late-night comedy film said the show included two appearances by the deceased writer Kurt Vonnegut, one of which greatly exceeded expectations. Students present at the University of California Los Angeles… Read More ›

• ‘No gas taxation without representation,’ say Eco-Socialists

  By Editor on November 11, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  SAN FRANCISCO – Rush hour traffic into the city came to a standstill longer than usual Monday morning thanks to a giant disembodied head of the Statue of Liberty and protesters shackled to it who demanded change to United States’… Read More ›

• Black ‘superhero’ mistaken for public nuisance

  By Editor on October 22, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  LOS ANGELES – A masked vigilante who some said has exceptional abilities escaped police custody yesterday after being accused of committing a robbery he claimed he stopped. An African-American male, identified as Dwight D. Jacobs, 38, engaged a robbery suspect… Read More ›

• ‘Sexual reproduction’ activists seek ban on artificial womb

  By Editor on October 15, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  WASHINGTON – Thousands of protesters gathered outside the Capitol today demanding a ban on an artificial womb that allows embryos to grow without a female body, allowing stem cell tissue, organs and perhaps human beings to be cloned in a lab. For years,… Read More ›

• Nasty spray keeps the creeps away

  By Editor on October 9, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  LOS ANGELES – A repugnant stench designed to ward off bullies, lurk balls, prowlers and other societal detritus is making its mark on the $30-billion fragrance industry. When a person sprays Get Off My Ass! around unwanted company, the noxious… Read More ›

• Long-awaited AI-directed horror film full of zombie clichés

  By Editor on October 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Every once in a while a film comes along that is so groundbreaking, so cinematically revolutionary, so awe-inspiringly vital that all you can do is sit back, take a deep breath, and say “wow.” The Future Dead is not one… Read More ›

• ‘The Martians fooled us,’ astronomer says

  By Editor on October 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  TUCSON – Mars is an ideal world for human habitation, but the Martians are conspiring to keep this secret from Earthlings, according to one stargazer who claims to have done significant research on the Red Planet. “For years, Martians have… Read More ›

• Personal computers to become a lot more personal

  By Editor on September 30, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  SAN FRANCISCO – Electronic hardware such as phones, laptops, and the personal computer soon may become obsolete, thanks to new technology that augments the brain’s natural computational abilities and makes external devices no longer necessary for people to tap into… Read More ›

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