For example, surveys in the displays middle of state records about a safe-sex education pamphlet, ONE archivists found a November 1985 letter from a woman to her gay adult son. She had just seen the television movie "An Early Frost" about a young man telling his parents he has AIDS, and she wrote: "Am I worrying too much about this AIDS problem? If you can alleviate any of my fears about the disease, please do. "Items like that resonate, said Palmer "With an archive, you have to be clinical. "Knuffle Bunny Too" (Hyperion, ages 4-7) continues Mo Willems' brilliant streak of insight into the struggles of children coping with the dimwittedness of well-meaning adults. For beginning readers, Willems also has the "Elephant and Piggie" series (Hyperion). His notable fans include teachers who worked for him at Muir Middle School in South Los Angeles. So far Kleiner has raised about $60,000, including a $10,000 personal loan. Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, who just struck a deal with NBC to air their "Quarterlife" Web-only dramatic series, will reap most of the rewards, since they own the show.

Eight people sustained minor injuries after falling from a patio balcony that collapsed Saturday night, authorities said Sunday. Four women and four men were standing on the balcony of a two-story home when the balcony cracked and gave way, sending those on it tumbling eight to 10 feet to the ground. The Los Angeles Fire Department and other rescue personnel transported the victims to hospitals in stable condition, said Fire Department spokesman Brian Ballton. -- My-Thuan Tran . Roosevelt, that pragmatism was apparent in one of the earliest New Deal agencies, the Home Owners Loan Corp. , or HOLC. Many Americans had speculated in real estate during the 1920s by taking out short-term bank loans and using the houses they purchased as collateral . -- Privately, some Siena players wondered in recent days if their counterparts on the Vanderbilt roster knew any of their names. If the Commodores didn't, they surely do now. Kenny Hasbrouck and Tay Fisher personally saw to that, and the Saints have another colossal upset to add to the team's NCAA tournament legacy. Hasbrouck scored 30 points, Fisher added 19 on six of six shooting from three-point range, and 13th-seeded Siena stunned fourth-seeded Vanderbilt, 83-62, on Friday night in the first round of the Midwest Regional . 15 were still pending or how many involved clients of the public defender's office. "That's what we're trying to ascertain," he said . When his regime was toppled in the spring of 2003, and again at his ignominious capture three years ago, Iraqis and U. S. He has made it clear that he does not aspire to Blair's celebrated ability to charm crowds and articulate society's unspoken longings. "I have never believed presentation should be a substitute for policy," he said.

Gulf Coast. Kim Hall, a field representative for the Center for Naval Analyses, stationed at U. S . The stock market's rebound from the depths stalled Monday as the price of oil climbed, offsetting optimism engendered by better-than-expected earnings at Bank of America. Although the market's major indexes showed modest losses Monday, the number of stocks advancing outpaced decliners by almost 2 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange and by about 4 to 3 on Nasdaq. Oil surged on concerns that a threat of new sanctions against Iran could escalate tensions in the Middle East, and on worries about a possible hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico . It has a lot of problems. "The county operates the second-largest publicly funded healthcare system in the nation, with an annual budget exceeding $3. 3 billion, three general hospitals and a network of clinics that together treat about 700,000 patients a year, most of them uninsured. County officials have been under increasing pressure since the August 2007 closing of King-Harbor (previously known as King/Drew) in Willowbrook left neighboring communities without a public hospital. Chernof had been promoted to the top department job in 2006 after a series of directors left with short tenures . 9, ESPN): Coach Phil Jackson has had some time to spend some of the money he earned with his contract extension, with only one game in seven days before Thursday . Gold futures fell $1. 30, to $790. 70 an ounce. A couple of reports showing economic weakness gave stock investors pause Thursday. A survey of purchasing managers suggested that manufacturing grew in October at its slowest pace in seven months, and the government said consumer spending inched up 0. 3% in September, less than expected and the smallest rise in three months. A key report on the economy is due today, when the government gives its estimate of the net number of jobs the economy created -- or lost -- in October. Stock market bulls are counting on continuing job growth to make the case that the economy overall is in decent shape and will continue to expand, in turn underpinning corporate earnings growth. For years, strong company profits have been Exhibit A in the bullish case for stocks, but earnings of the companies in the S&P 500 are poised for their first decline since the first quarter of 2002, according to John Butters, director of earnings at data tracker Thomson Financial in Boston. With about 80% of the S&P 500 companies having reported their third-quarter results, Butters said, the latest estimate, based on analysts' reports, is that profits overall were off 1. 7% from a year earlier. The fourth-quarter forecast is for a return to strongly positive growth, Butters said, although analysts have trimmed their estimated average increase to 9% from 11. 5% on Oct. I am about 12 pounds lower now than I was when I started the diet. --Thanksgiving is coming up -- are you going to be eating the turkey or the stuffing?I'll have some stuffing because I like it, but I'll probably avoid the pumpkin pie. .

"There were three churches," Luther Brown said as he led a tour of college students from Texas . A solution that relied mostly on increasing taxes drew only 8% support, while 4% would support borrowing money and running a deficit. * On abortion, likely voters were divided 47% in favor, 44% opposed on Proposition 4, a measure that would require parents to be notified 48 hours before a minor has an abortion . is an institutional coffee roaster that sells coffee and related products to the food service industry in 28 states. . When CalArts faculty member Louise Sandhaus pondered West Coast design history for a book proposal five years ago, she theorized that California's freewheeling graphics sensibility might be directly connected to the very ground we stand, slip and slide on. Explaining her project-in-progress "Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires and Riots: California and Graphic Design," Sandhaus says, "Half-seriously, I began thinking in my crackpot imagination that graphic designers here don't stick to tradition because the ground isn't firm enough . Turkey's powerful armed forces chief paid a courtesy visit to his newly elected president after accusations that the general had snubbed him because of his Islamist past. Gen. Sandy Richman, whose firm, Directives West, produced the event, took the stage and introduced Paris Hilton, who was launching a new clothing line. legally," the captain says. *Fortunately, the sea lions ignore the cut bait and the rockfish with their spiny fins.

Maryland looms as a heavy favorite to repeat as NCAA champion, Stanford again is picked to reign in the Pacific 10 Conference, UCLA's Noelle Quinn could emerge as the national player of the year and USC ushers in a new era with a new arena and, unfortunately for the Trojans, a new list of injured players. The 2006-07 women's college basketball season tipped off this week, with 22nd-ranked USC opening tonight against Long Beach State in the Galen Center, the sparkling on-campus jewel that was decades in the making. UCLA, ranked 23rd after winning the Pacific 10 Conference tournament for the first time last March, opens Sunday against UC Santa Barbara in Pauley Pavilion. For Quinn, a 6-foot senior guard who averaged 18. 1 points, 8. 2 rebounds and 3. 8 assists last season, the opener serves as a warmup for several head-to-head matchups with other leading player-of-year candidates in the coming weeks. Before Christmas, UCLA will have faced fifth-ranked Tennessee and its do-everything sophomore, Candace Parker; third-ranked Oklahoma and its lane-clogging sophomore center, Courtney Paris; and fourth-ranked Stanford and its two-time Pac-10 player of the year, junior guard Candice Wiggins. "I think it's fitting for Noelle Quinn to go against the best," UCLA Coach Kathy Olivier said, referring to a tough schedule that also could include a second-round game against second-ranked North Carolina in the Rainbow Wahine Classic at Honolulu over Thanksgiving weekend . He went home for the funeral, where he was faced with a decision: Should he move back home? While he was there he got a phone call from his manager, telling him he'd been offered a role in Steven Spielberg's new series, "Semper Fi. ""It's like when something bad happens, something good will happen to rescue you," Pena said "It was unbelievable . Superfine sugar can be found in the baking section of many grocery stores; alternatively, place granulated sugar in the bowl of a food processor and blend until very fine . "Mentally, you have to prepare for it before practice. "Coaches said they were experimenting with line combinations .

There will be many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make. "The biggest cause for caution, advisors said, was the slumping economy, which has become the federal government's overriding priority, trumping all other concerns. "First you've got to deal with the economy," said Leon Panetta, a former chief of staff to Clinton who has been consulted by Obama's transition team . "They root for the Angels now. "Friendly PhillyCliff Floyd said he and his young Rays teammates got a traditional Philadelphia welcome when their team bus left the hotel Friday. "We got cursed out as much as you could get cursed out," Floyd said . "It is far better that it takes a long time to reach a verdict . Obama sharply criticized the decision, saying the conservative justices ignored new discrimination she suffered with each unfairly low paycheck . The real estate experiment might not have worked had it been any other brand, but Jacobs is one of the most influential designers of his time -- and of course, the fashion world followed. Moore, chief investment strategist for Dunvegan Associates Inc.

Geggie tried to flee, Zapalski said, but the officers quickly caught up to him and ordered him to drop the shotgun he was holding. "He refused and that is when the officer-involved shooting occurred," she said. Geggie was taken to a local hospital, where he remained in stable condition Wednesday evening with "non-life threatening injuries," Zapalski said . The German rider for the drug-scarred T-Mobile team had his positive doping test for testosterone revealed while he was in a hospital after a crash. The German-based team had been disgraced by its association with star Jan Ullrich, who was caught up in "Operacion Puerto," the 2006 Spanish drug scandal and by the admission of 1996 Tour champion Bjarn Riis that he had doped while riding for T-Mobile. And hiding in the back seat of the clown car is current Tour leader Michael Rasmussen, like Riis a Dane, clad head to toe in yellow; the color accorded the top rider at the Tour . Popovich, asked about playing back-to-back games here, said, "It's one more dinner. "Popovich also said he was moving Francisco Elson back into the starting lineup at center, over Fabricio Oberto . She remembers hearing the others scream and beg for mercy, but couldn't move or make a sound herself. "At that point, I was like a tree I had no feeling . Then, after the 1996 season, he bolted the Red Sox and signed as a free agent with the Toronto Blue Jays. Many New England Democrats will never pardon him for that. --christine. daniels. But no matter -- it's getting that close to the bedrock of Manhattan that counts. Of course, you might become a tourist attraction yourself.

In his final book, "On God: An Uncommon Conversation" (published only 3 1/2 weeks ago), he referred to God as a supreme artist, the novelist at the heart of the universe . Tom Ludlow, he's an alcoholic mess (though Reeves has to work very, very hard at conveying any sort of messiness) who arranged to sell a stash of weapons to a scary group of Korean-American gangstas. It's all a set-up for the big bust; this being Ellroyland, the thugs have penned up underage women in their closet back at the thug house, and when Ludlow's done with the bad men the blood's all over the walls and the coroner's alerted . His famous ruminative interludes on such songs as his cover of Jimmy Webb's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" set the stage for rap's elevation of the black male speaking voice. He was most famous for his 1971 soundtrack for the blaxploitation classic "Shaft," which brought him an Academy Award for best song as well as two Grammys, but Hayes had a long and storied career beyond that Hollywood high point . Eight were hospitalized. The outbreak began between July 20 and July 26, and may have continued into the next week, health officials said. The first week, 1,647 scouts, leaders and staff members attended the camp, with 1,310 participants the next week, according to the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America . The tap revival of the 1970s and '80s was a confluence of young dancers and activists intent on preserving the glorious history of tap dance and expressing their own creative impulses.

Yahoo and ESPN stream highlight clips, and ESPN has streamed the annual All-Star Break Home Run Derby . Fox handed over the reins to fellow conservative Felipe Calderon last year. In a telephone interview Monday with The Times, Fox blamed the controversy on detractors who are angry because he refuses to act like other former Mexican presidents: He won't allow himself to fade into obscurity, as did his predecessor, Ernesto Zedillo, or to be pushed into ignominious exile, the fate of Zedillo's predecessor, Carlos Salinas de Gortari. "My enemies are trying to stop me in my path," Fox said from his New York City hotel "I have absolutely nothing to hide . Bakeries and cafes, lodged in buildings dating to the 1800s, project Placerville's densely layered history into the present. Many structures bear the dates of their construction on their stone and brick facades . Fox TV, arguments will be heard in the fall. The appellate judges in New York said the new policy was arbitrary and vague . Or why, after 27 years of lifeguarding, he wants to hang on at least until one of his three junior lifeguard daughters -- now 15, 13 and 11 -- joins him in the tower. And why shouldn't Silka -- a triathlete who swims with the UCLA Bruin Masters and thinks nothing of a bike ride to Santa Barbara from his home in the Palisades -- be able to? Just last year, Darrell Willey, a Venice High teacher, retired after 55 years of lifeguarding. Silka said that when he started at 19, the senior lifeguards were also paramedics. "Watching them go out and save people was just a huge inspiration," he said, and in fact, that was when he first thought about becoming a doctor. Bureaucracy being what it is, he's still required to routinely be tested and recertified for emergency medical technician status, despite his job at Cedars, and even though he runs the lifeguard EMT program. Just after 1 p. m. Windows were broken, the roof looked like Swiss cheese, and around her was junk and piles where buildings had been. "I just can't believe it.