Topic: Los Angeles
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Your Body Is a Wondermap
The cartographic utility of human appendages and the places they resemble.
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Democracy in America
Los Angeles Rids Its Schools of Styrofoam: This Week in Bans
Also, a British tractor thief gets his comeuppance and a Nigerian church freaks out over bombs in women's headdresses.
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Videos
Palm-Tree Fires: Nature's Tiki Torches
An L.A. firefighter explains how bottle rockets are often to blame when palms catch fire.
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The Sad Evolution of the Strip Mall
How the most car-friendly urban form went from quaint to grotesque.
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For L.A. Residents Fed Up With Helicopter Noise, a Final Straw
A violin solo at the Hollywood Bowl gets drowned out, and a revolt is born.
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Democracy in America
This Week in Bans: Massachusetts Whiner Gets American Flags Removed
Also, a tony California beach town shoos away smelly persons from its libraries, and the Olympics outlaws everything.
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An L.A. Artist Makes Immigrant Workers Impossible to Ignore
Ramiro Gomez plants cardboard cutouts of domestic service employees in wealthy neighborhoods.
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Videos
Happy 4th of July! From the World's Premiere Gunpowder Artist
Cai Guo-Qiang transforms fireworks into eardrum-shattering "smoke paintings" in cities across the world.
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Democracy in America
Officials Gone Wild: Cook County Morgue CEO Flees Stacks of Corpses
Also, Los Angeles-area officials believe that "money makes the monkey dance," and a Georgia mayor struggles to get somebody to pay for his lawsuit.
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Democracy in America
The Misunderstood Science Behind Fears That a Subway Tunnel Could Blow Up Beverly Hills High School
Earthquakes, underground chemicals, hysteria and emotion all collide in L.A.
