Daily Breeze back issues from December 2002:
Giuliani headed for the altar; O'Donnell's girlfriend delivers. Cox name change is a tribute
Dec 01, 2002; ... Giuliani headed for the altar. O'Donnell's girlfriend delivers.Giuliani headed for the altar NEW YORK -- Former Mayor RudolphGiuliani has popped the question, asking companionJudith Nathan tomarry him. Spokeswoman Sunny Mindel saidGiuliani proposed Nov. 24 to Nathan,his companion ...
Fitting Buy Nothing day gifts
Dec 01, 2002; ... Fitting Buy Nothing day gifts Did you all have a nice BuyNothing day Friday? Oh dear, missed it,did you? Friday was the 10th anniversary of the first Buy Nothing dayin 1992, brought to you each year by the Adbusters MediaFoundationand dedicated to the proposition that if you buy ...
Playing loose with figures on children, guns
Dec 01, 2002 ... Playing loose with figures on children, guns Dr. Phil recently aired a program in which he staged an experimentto demonstrate the danger of guns in the home. Amid a group ofplaying little girls and boys, a teacher placed two fake gunsinside adollhouse. The teacher warned the kids ...
Take time out to remember those in harm's way
Dec 01, 2002 ... Take time out to remember those in harm's way I hope you're reading this surrounded by the ones you love, fullin body and spirit after a satisfying Thanksgiving feast. I hope thatyou and your family are able to briefly carve out a sense of comfortand security in this dangerous and ...
angie-gram
Dec 01, 2002 ... If there were no Thanksgiving Day football games on television, wecould have had a full-time Thanksgiving Dinner ...
Column full of anti-senior venom; Port pollution a seriousmatter. Time to audit Lawndale books. Lobby hard for open-space funds. 2 interesting religion stories
Dec 01, 2002 ... Column full of anti-senior venom. Port pollution a serious matter.Time to audit Lawndale books. Lobby hard for open-space funds. Columnfull of anti-senior venom. Port pollution a serious matter . Time toaudit Lawndale books. Column full of anti-senior venom. Portpollution a serious ...
Question of the Week
Dec 01, 2002 ... Each Sunday, we ask a Question of the Week and open it to readerresponses. The question focuses on a current issue ora news eventfrom the previous week. We'll publish your answers here in Tell Us later in the week. Wehope the opinions will provide a crosscut of the wide array of ...
Other Views; Kid-safe Web sites are no panacea
Dec 01, 2002 ... Kid-safe Web sites are no panacea Kid-safe Web sites are more a political gain than an aid toparents. It sounds like a great idea: a section of the Internet that wouldbe safe for children. Of course, if such matters were that easy, theInternet overseers could just create a ...
Speak Up
Dec 01, 2002 ... We get to remember the values that we should protect -- theway oflife that my family is accustomed to. -- PATRICK WEISDORFER, an Armyspecialist, one ...
Drunken driving carnage
Dec 01, 2002 ... Drunken driving carnage At issue: What steps should California officials take to keep thenumber of alcohol-related traffic fatalities from climbing anyhigher? A sobering message this holiday season: The number ofdrunken driving deaths is rising. In 1996, there were 191 ...
Saudi money trail merits more scrutiny
Dec 01, 2002 ... Saudi money trail merits more scrutiny Sen. John McCain says the Saudi royal family "has been engaged ina Faustian bargain for years" to keep Islamic extremists and othersfrom threatening its power. His assessment comes in the wake of reports that the Saudi Arabiangovernment ...
U.S. warns Americans of danger in E. Africa
Dec 01, 2002; ... U.S. warns Americans of danger in E. Africa TERRORISM: Attacks in Kenya prompt State Department to adviseavoiding or leaving Djibouti. WASHINGTON -- The State Department on Saturday warned Americans inthe East African nation of Djibouti, where U.S. troops are posted,that ...
Grieving Kenyans angered and baffled by attack
Dec 01, 2002; ... Grieving Kenyans angered and baffled by attack AFRICA: Villagers are struggling to understand why they becameensnared in terrorist bombing. MUSAMARINI, Kenya -- The whole village came to mourn. Relativeswailed, and women nursing babies sat in the dark shade on paprika-red ...
AIDS warning gains credibility in China
Dec 01, 2002; ... AIDS warning gains credibility in China HEALTH: State media is now an advocate for increasing preventionefforts in the country. BEIJING -- Authorities scoffed when the UnitedNations warned inJune that 10 million Chinese would be infected with AIDS by 2010.They called the ...
No bin Laden, even with a $25 million bounty on his head
Dec 01, 2002; ... No bin Laden, even with a $25 million bounty on his head WASHINGTON -- Why does the head of Osama bin Laden seem to be oneof those things that money can't buy? Four yearsago, when he was known to have a base in Afghanistan, acountry with a per-capita annual income of $800, the ...
Israeli forces kill boy at border
Dec 01, 2002; ... Israeli forces kill boy at border MIDEAST: Palestinian students were walking near fence when theywere shot. Troopsmove into Gaza town. JERUSALEM -- A 16-year-old Palestinian was shot and killed andanother boy was wounded Saturday as they neared a border fence on theway home ...
Soldiers fall sick after holiday meal
Dec 01, 2002 ... Soldiers fall sick after holiday meal BAGRAM, Afghanistan(AP) -- Turkey stuffing from a Thanksgivingmeal may have caused more than 100 soldiers to fall ill with foodpoisoningat a U.S. base in Afghanistan, the U.S. military saidSaturday. Seventy-nine U.S. soldiers, 25 ...
U.N. inspectors search Iraqi base
Dec 01, 2002; ... U.N. inspectors search Iraqi base PROBE: Weapons hunters spend 3 1/2 hours on formerly "sensitive"Chemical Corps site north of Baghdad. BALAD, Iraq -- International weapons hunters crossed a thresholdSaturday, paying their first visit under the new inspection programto a ...
Boy, 7, saves mother after holiday crash
Dec 01, 2002; ... Boy, 7, saves mother after holiday crash GREELEY, Colo. -- Authorities say a 7-year-old boy may have savedhis mother's life after the family's pickup truck crashed as theydrove home from Thanksgiving dinner. Titus Adams and his sisters, Tiffany, 4, and Tier, 1, were intheir ...
Education reforms eyed as windfall
Dec 01, 2002; ... Education reforms eyed as windfall BUSINESS: Companies are finding new policies aimed at helpinglagging students to be a lucrative opportunity. PHILADELPHIA -- Companies thatprovide tutoring and preparation forstandardized tests arescrambling to cash in on what could be ...
Disney ship to be cleaned again after new outbreak
Dec 01, 2002; ... Disney ship to be cleaned again after new outbreak VIRUS:Passengers and crew members suffer flulike symptoms, inrepeat of an incident several days ago. ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Disney cruise liner marred by a second outbreakof a flulike virus returned to port Saturday, and workers ...
Spacewalk fixes space station's rail device
Dec 01, 2002; ... Spacewalk fixes space station's rail device CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A railcar crucial to the construction ofthe international space station stalled on its tracks Saturday, but aspacewalking astronaut managed to get it moving again. Within minutes of venturing outside, John ...
Justices' term could be momentous
Dec 01, 2002; ... Justices' term could be momentous HIGH COURT: Affirmative action, gay rights and First Amendmentcases are vying for docket space. WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court faces choices in the next fewweeks that could convert the current term from solidly interesting topotentially ...
PENNSYLVANIA; Shooting victim's note guides police; PENNSYLVANIA. Free STD testing offered to schools
Dec 01, 2002; ... PENNSYLVANIA. Shooting victim's note guides police. PENNSYLVANIA.PENNSYLVANIA. Shooting victim's note guides police EAST STROUDSBURG -- Before he was shot to death, a man helped police zero in onsuspects by writing a letter indicating that his live-in girlfriendand her new lover intended ...
Medicinal pot users are largely older men
Dec 01, 2002; ... Medicinal pot users are largely older men WASHINGTON -- The typical medicinal marijuana user is likely toresemble someone from the baby boomer generation -- or older --rather than a twentysomething poster child, according to acongressional study. Data collected in Hawaii and ...
ER workers ready for inoculations despite risk
Dec 01, 2002; ... ER workers ready for inoculations despite risk LAS VEGAS -- In a town known for high-stakes gambling, Suzanne Lauis ready to risk a small chance of injury and evendeath to bevaccinated against smallpox. A nurse at one of the city's busiest emergency rooms, she probablywill be ...
Where to see Santa
Dec 01, 2002 ... Santa Claus will begin his travels to Manhattan Beach on Mondayand conclude his trip Dec. 19. The Manhattan Beach Chamber of Commerce, the Manhattan BeachPolice reserves and community groups will help Santa make his rounds.The float will set out between 5:30 and 6 each scheduled ...
LOS ANGELES; 1 death on CHP holiday report; COMPTON; 2 victims gunned down in a car. CHULA VISTA. 2nd toddler pulled from pool dies
Dec 01, 2002; ... LOS ANGELES. 1 death on CHP holiday report. COMPTON. 2 victimsgunned down in a car. CHULA VISTA. LOS ANGELES. 1 death on CHPholiday report. COMPTON. 2 victims gunned down in a car. LOS ANGELES.1 death on CHP holiday report. COMPTON. LOS ANGELES. 1 death on CHPholiday report ...
California condor found dead under power line
Dec 01, 2002; ... California condor found dead under power line ATASCADERO -- A 3-year-old female California condor released inthe wild of Big Sur two years ago was found dead Saturday under apower line with burn marks on its feathers, officials said. The death of the endangered bird brings the ...
Swarm of small tremors tests nerves in Bay Area
Dec 01, 2002; ... Swarm of small tremors tests nerves in Bay Area SAN RAMON-- The ground started shaking last Sunday morning beneaththis bedroom community about 35 miles east of San Francisco, butthere was little concern. The quake measured 3.9 on theRichter scale,and left barely a picture on the ...
Priests plan public penance
Dec 01, 2002; ... Priests plan public penance Two Roman Catholic priests have begun organizing a day of publicpenance to express theirsorrow over the recent sex abuse scandal. The Revs. Bill Barman and John McAndrew sent e-mails last weekasking fellow priests in the Diocese of Orange to ...
ASK US; Q: Clothing for people with mobility issues
Dec 01, 2002; ... Q: Clothing for people with mobility issues Can you findout if there is a physically challenged clothing linecatalog that I may secure? I'm in need of it because my mother hasbecome incapacitated and I would like to find out information onclothing for her. -- ROSE SCIASCIA ...
Forging a town with roots of steel
Dec 01, 2002; ... Forging a town with roots of steel Businessman Jared Sidney Torrance had a vision for a communitywhere laborers could raise a family and live comfortably a shortdistance from where they worked. With a stable and comfortable home life, workers would be happy,satisfied and ...
HARBOR GATEWAY; EPA says pipeline project is routine; REDONDO BEACH. Galleria offers fun events for children. HERMOSA BEACH. Weekend of beach football gets OK. Note to readers
Dec 01, 2002; ... HARBOR GATEWAY. EPA says pipeline project is routine. REDONDOBEACH. Galleria offers fun events for children. HERMOSA BEACH.Weekend of beach football gets OK. HARBOR GATEWAY. EPA says pipelineproject is routine. REDONDO BEACH. Galleria offers fun events forchildren. HERMOSA BEACH. HARBOR ...
No rush on for child flu shots
Dec 01, 2002; ... No rush on for child flu shots HEALTH: South Bay doctors are split on a new governmentrecommendation that youngstersbe among the groups to be vaccinated. Shots for everyone! While not exactly a battle cry among publichealth officials, it is a new nudge to encourage parents to ...
Hyperion hiring freeze thaws
Dec 01, 2002; ... Hyperion hiring freeze thaws LOS ANGELES: Sewage plant was forced to leave jobs unfilledbecause of fears of losing Valley tax revenue. Even the Hyperion Sewage Treatment Plant felt the effects of athreatened San Fernando Valley secession. Still reeling from a budget ...
Lighting the way
Dec 01, 2002; ... TORRANCE: Sleepy Hollow is undergoing its annual holidaytransformation into a winter wonderland. Thanksgiving is over and Christmas is right around the corner. And that meanswork, work -- and more work -- for the residents ofSleepy Hollow, the enclave in southwest Torrance that ...
City of Torrance 2003 Rose Parade float rises to the occasion
Dec 01, 2002; ... City of Torrance 2003 Rose Parade float rises to the occasion If it's not too early for Christmas shopping and holidaydecorations, then it's not too early to work on the Torrance RoseFloat. Even before Thanksgiving, volunteers started preparations forTorrance's entry in the ...
Latest Bond film may be good, but wait till the boy turns 13
Dec 01, 2002 ... Latest Bond film may be good, but wait till the boy turns 13 To really understand what the latest James Bond movie isall about,you need to hear the plot explained by a 9-year-old boy. Only, trying to render little-boy speak into words is as difficultas capturing a foreign ...
OUT & ABOUT IN THE SOUTH BAY
Dec 01, 2002; ... Today WORLD AIDS DAY ---------------------------- What: Interfaith service and program commemorating World AIDS Day.After the service, free and anonymous HIV antibody testing will beconducted, along with entertainment, music and speakers. The eventwill culminate with a ...
United flight attendants OK $412 million in concessions
Dec 01, 2002; ... United flight attendants OK $412 million in concessions CHICAGO -- United Airlines' flight attendants gave sweepingapproval on Saturday to $412 million in contract concessions. Theirmove came even as the leader of the airline's mechanics pleaded withmembers to reconsider their ...
Progress is slow in Kenya probe
Dec 01, 2002; ... Progress is slow in Kenya probe ATTACK: Law enforcement official says arrests show breakthrough,but he admits his forces need outside help. MOMBASA, Kenya -- A day after simultaneous terror attacks againstIsraeli targets in Kenya, the country's police commissioner toutedthe ...
Local deputy shot to death
Dec 01, 2002; ... Local deputy shot to death CRIME: Torrance resident basedat the Lakewood Sheriff's Stationwas investigating a report of gunfire in Artesia. A Los AngelesCounty sheriff's deputy who lived in Torrance was shot and killedSaturday aftera bullet passed through an opening in his ...
Center meets with empty feeling
Dec 01, 2002; ... Center meets with empty feeling LOS ANGELES: Convention business skids, and there's littleagreement among city, hotel and tourism leaders on solutions. Cities nationwide haveseen their convention business sag in thewake of last year's terrorist attacks, but no place has lost ...
Hunt still on for Torrance rapist, police say
Dec 01, 2002; ... Hunt still on for Torrance rapist, police say CRIME: It'sbeen months since his last strike, but investigatorsare optimistic that he'll be caught. He roamed the streets of Torrance in his car, spreading fearacross the city, preying on women walking alone. The Torrance ...
(A1 rail teasers); D@ily Link
Dec 01, 2002 ... TODAY It's in the mail Postcard collectors are on an endless huntfor that special find. (POSTCARDS1) B1 Putting down roots of steel Mill helped fulfill Torrance founder's vision for a town whereworkers could labor near their homes. A4 Meryl ...
Dorothy Jean Amos; Joseph Sebastian Basile; Msgr. Ian Edward Holland. Ronald E. Moore. Rosanna Verdugo
Dec 01, 2002 ... Amos, Dorothy Jean Dorothy Jean Amos (Jean) was born on August 8,1921. At the age of 81, she passed away November 25,2002. Diagnosedwith breast cancer in 1997, she managed to keep it at bay, but diedfrom severe atypical pneumonia. Jean was born in Ida Grove, Iowa. Shewas raised in the ...
Giuliani headed for the altar
Dec 01, 2002 ... From news services NEW YORK _ Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has popped the question,asking companion Judith Nathan to marry him. Spokeswoman Sunny Mindel said Giuliani proposed Nov. 24 to Nathan,his companion of more than two years, during a business trip toParis. Mindel ...
Fitting Buy Nothing day gifts
Dec 01, 2002 ... By Linda Seebach Did you all have a nice Buy Nothing day Friday? Oh dear, missedit, did you? Friday was the 10th anniversary of the first Buy Nothingday in 1992, brought to you each year by the Adbusters MediaFoundation and dedicated to the proposition that if you buy stuff ...
Take time out to remember those in harm's way
Dec 01, 2002 ... I hope you're reading this surrounded by the ones you love, fullin body and spirit after a satisfying Thanksgiving feast. I hope thatyou and your family are able to briefly carve out a sense of comfortand security in this dangerous and troubled world. To do so is nosmall thing. America ...
angie-gram
Dec 01, 2002; ... If there were no Thanksgiving Day football games on television, wecould have had a full-time Thanksgiving ...
Playing loose with figures on children, guns
Dec 01, 2002 ... Dr. Phil recently aired a program in which he staged an experimentto demonstrate the danger of guns in the home. Amid a group ofplaying little girls and boys, a teacher placed two fake guns insidea dollhouse. The teacher warned the kids not to play with the guns,and then left the room ....
Column full of anti-senior venom
Dec 01, 2002; ... Paul Campos' hateful tirade "Curbing the oldster's tyranny" (DailyBreeze, Nov. 20) was a verbal abomination that left me boiling mad!He complains that Uncle Sam is bestowing too much money on theelderly, thus depriving the overworked 20-year-olds of their fairshare. What a crock of ...
Question of the Week
Dec 01, 2002; ... Each Sunday, we ask a Question of the Week and open it to readerresponses. The question focuses on a current issue or a news eventfrom the previous week. We'll publish your answers here in Tell Us later in the week. Wehope the opinions will provide a crosscut of the wide array of ...
Speak Up
Dec 01, 2002; ... We get to remember the values that we should protect _ the way oflife that my family is accustomed to. _ PATRICK WEISDORFER, an Army ...
Other Views | Kid-safe Web sites are no panacea
Dec 01, 2002; ... Kid-safe Web sites are no panacea Kid-safe Web sites are more a political gain than an aid toparents. It sounds like a great idea: a section of the Internet that wouldbe safe for children. Of course, if such matters were that easy, theInternet overseers could just create a ...
Saudi money trail merits more scrutiny
Dec 01, 2002 ... Sen. John McCain says the Saudi royal family "has been engaged ina Faustian bargain for years" to keep Islamic extremists and othersfrom threatening its power. His assessment comes in the wake of reports that the Saudi Arabiangovernment may have used the wife of its ambassador to ...
Drunken driving carnage
Dec 01, 2002; ... At issue: What steps should California officials take to keep thenumber of alcohol-related traffic fatalities from climbing anyhigher? A sobering message this holiday season: The number of drunkendriving deaths is rising. In 1996, there were 191 alcohol-involvedfatal collisions ...
U.S. warns Americans of danger in E. Africa
Dec 01, 2002; ... TERRORISM: Attacks in Kenya prompt State Department to advise avoiding orleaving Djibouti. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON _ The State Department on Saturday warned Americans inthe East African nation of Djibouti, where U.S. troops are posted,that terrorists may be ...
Grieving Kenyans angered and baffled by attack
Dec 01, 2002; ... AFRICA: Villagers are struggling to understand why they became ensnared interrorist bombing. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MUSAMARINI, Kenya _ The whole village came to mourn. Relativeswailed, and women nursing babies sat in the dark shade on paprika-red earth. Men shoveled ...
AIDS warning gains credibility in China
Dec 01, 2002; ... HEALTH: State media is now an advocate for increasing prevention effortsin the country. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING _ Authorities scoffed when the United Nations warned inJune that 10 million Chinese would be infected with AIDS by 2010.They called the findings ...
No bin Laden, even with a $25 million bounty on his head
Dec 01, 2002; ... THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON _ Why does the head of Osama bin Laden seem to be oneof those things that money can't buy? Four years ago, when he was known to have a base in Afghanistan, acountry with a per-capita annual income of $800, the United Statesoffered a $5 million ...
Israeli forces kill boy at border
Dec 01, 2002; ... MIDEAST: Palestinian students were walking near fence when they were shot.Troops move into Gaza town. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM _ A 16-year-old Palestinian was shot and killed andanother boy was wounded Saturday as they neared a border fence on theway home from ...
U.N. inspectors search Iraqi base
Dec 01, 2002; ... PROBE: Weapons hunters spend 3 1/2 hours on formerly "sensitive"Chemical Corps site north of Baghdad. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BALAD, Iraq _ International weapons hunters crossed a thresholdSaturday, paying their first visit under the new inspection programto a military ...
Soldiers fall sick after holiday meal
Dec 01, 2002 ... BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) _ Turkey stuffing from a Thanksgivingmeal may have caused more than 100 soldiers to fall ill with foodpoisoning at a U.S. base in Afghanistan, the U.S. military saidSaturday. Seventy-nine U.S. soldiers, 25 Romanians and some soldiers fromother countries ...