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Thomas Curwen is a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. He has worked as editor-at-large for the Times, served as the editor of the paper’s Outdoor section and was the deputy editor of the Book Review. His “Attacked by a Grizzly” story was a finalist for a 2008 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. He has been honored by Los Angeles Press Club, the American Association of Sunday and Features Editors, and in 2002 he was a recipient of a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. H…

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A hike into horror and an act of courage

A hike into horror and an act of courage

A California man visiting Glacier National Park with his daughter instinctively puts himself between her and …

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Waiting for death, alone and unafraid

Waiting for death, alone and unafraid

Edwin Shneidman is not afraid of death. He has made it his companion all is life, and now at 90 -- the breadt…

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Walking away from grief

Walking away from grief

A 100-mile, 11-day trek to fulfill his late wife's wishes for her ashes takes Montana nature writer Gary Ferg…

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Serving the dead is a higher calling for two embalmers in Louisiana

Serving the dead is a higher calling for two embalmers in Louisiana

There's something spiritual about embalming for Glenn Bergeron and Stephen Kees, who tend to bodies at a fune…

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Surgeon struggles to save boy's life in L.A.'s shooting season

Surgeon struggles to save boy's life in L.A.'s shooting season

A trauma surgeon and the staff at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center struggle to save a youth with a bullet in his to…

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Fast-forward 25 years: Sharing hopes and dreams for a future Los Angeles

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By Thomas Curwen
| Yahoo Verified
(Los Angeles Times; photo by Getty Images) Los Angeles is a city built upon amnesia and denial. Graded and paved, bought and sold, it bears little likeness to Tovaangar, the home for the first people who, for thousands of years, walked its valleys and chaparral-clad basins and paddled its broad shorelines. Eventually, they were overtaken, falling silent to the noisy ambitions of foreigners and settlers who set about transforming this vast floodplain with imported water and orchards and homes.
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Lessons from a psychic reading

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By Thomas Curwen
| TimesDaily Verified
LOS ANGELES — With shoulder-length blond hair, black dress and black knee-high boots, Jennifer Rose cuts a preacherly silhouette — less Bible-thumping, more New Age — standing on a small stage in the retirement community of Laguna Woods Village. kAmQ%96C6VD 2 =@E @7 DA:C:E 96C6 2=C625J[Q D96 D2JD] w6C 2F5:6?46 8C@HD BF:6E] Q$@ x 9@A6 J@FVC6 DE2CE:?8 E@ 766= E92E E@@] pD E96 2E>@DA96C6 492?86D[ :E 86ED 2 =:EE=6 3FKKJ]Qk^Am kAm(96?
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Using Contactless Interfacial Rheology to Probe Interfacial Mechanics for Compositional Ripening

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By Raj Tadi, James Richards, Beth Green, Thomas Curwen
| ACS Publications
Introduction Click to copy section linkSection link copied! Pickering emulsions are a class of emulsions stabilized by particles. Typically, the particles are in the colloid size domain. Compared to the surfactant-stabilized counterparts, Pickering emulsions show many advantages such as improved stability and tunable properties.
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