It looked as though a hospital had shut down and dumped its patients on skid row. "If you look at the market this year, only a couple groups really performed."The Dow Jones industrial average fell 6.17 points, or 0.06%, to 10,883.27.Broader stock indicators were nearly unchanged. 26 and shot him in the stomach.It's hard to say whether anything would have saved Henderson in the short term Maybe gang members would have found him anywhere. A state lawmaker who suspects that pollution contributed to her cancer announced plans Wednesday to seek an air cleanup bond that could cost the state between $2 billion and $5 billion.Assemblywoman Jenny Oropeza (D-Long Beach) announced the plan after a hearing that included nearly three hours of testimony linking air pollution from California's ports, trucks and other shipping sources to deaths, childhood illnesses and poor fetal development.The state Air Resources Board released a study this month that found diesel emissions from the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports are increasing cancer risks miles inland.. But other than that, there is little to do."I find it heartbreaking," Muriel Saels, a visitor from Brussels, said after paying the entry fee of 7 Swiss francs ($5.55) to see the dogs. Alex Marrone, said it was difficult to decide what information to trust and what to ignore.

After earning a master's in piano performance at Peabody in 1998, he headed south for three years to teach at a North Carolina private music school and work as a church organist."With a performance degree from Peabody, doors opened," he says. It's the revolutionary California law that emptied the state's mental wards, fired the Nurse Ratcheds, trashed the Thorazine and gave mental patients a bill of rights, but not much else to guide them or the people they live among.The people who draw just one or two of the short straws -- no work, no medical care, no home -- are easier to help. When I asked Katzenberg what sets Adamson apart as a filmmaker, he immediately said, "Andrew understands sentiment -- he's the one who gave a big green ogre a big heart.""Narnia" has something absent from most of today's noisy, desperate-to-please family films -- a sense of innocence. Westhusing, 44, of Dallas, who died Sunday in Baghdad.The Army said he died from "non-combat-related" injuries. "What used to be a scientific community of free and open debate now often seems like a litigious scrum of data-hoarding and suspicion."For magazine buffs, though, the best piece in this issue is Carol Loomis' "My 51 Years (and Counting) at Fortune."Now 76, Loomis is one of the little-known heroes of journalism. Among them is the explosive 30-year-old Cadenhead's Cask Strength, a 147-proof Jamaican rum aged and bottled in Scotland, of all places. Like many illegal immigrants, she lived with the fear of being deported But she was healthy.

I frankly don't care, because to me the emptiest criticism about the show is that it doesn't know where it's going or, alternately, is creating too many plots, subplots and such to remain cohesive.True, the opening credits have become a big lie (Oh, yeah? Naveen Andrews is in this episode? How about Lindsay Lohan?), but the point of "Lost" is its own silly ambition: It began with a spectacular action sequence -- a plane crash on a remote island, people falling out of the sky -- only to argue, via personalized flashback and some fairly bad acting, that it was actually a show about character, and how one's past must be reckoned with in the present. More than half of treated men will have permanent sexual dysfunction, and up to 30% will have some degree of chronic urinary incontinence. BAGHDAD He appeared as a nondescript Iraqi everyman -- graying, beefy and bespectacled, and speaking in the earthy vernacular of his Tigris River valley farming town. Whatever anyone's personal take on "Brokeback Mountain," "Capote," "Crash," "Good Night, and Good Luck" and even the larger-budgeted "Munich," none of them will be mistaken for "Singin' in the Rain."If there was a party line coming out of Hollywood about what this means, it's that in the post-Sept. One day I almost hit the Highway Patrol car that was right next to me."A no-nonsense businesswoman, Wong was disparaged by some bands for her temper.

TURIN, Italy When the last notes sounded of the last competitive program they'd skate together, Maxim Marinin sank to one knee and kissed the clasped hands of Tatiana Totmianina, a touchingly intimate moment in the midst of a roaring crowd at the world's biggest sporting event."Without Tatiana, and without her help and support and labor, I wouldn't be here I couldn't do it by myself," Marinin said. Authorities suspect the conservationist was attacked because she tried to prevent illegal fishing on the lake. But the college also has a gleaming new library and learning resource center, paid for primarily with state funds but topped off with Measure S money.Oxnard College, the youngest and smallest of the three campuses with 6,500 students, stands to lose about a dozen projects, including a health science center, two classroom buildings, a women's softball field and additional bleachers.President Lydia Ledesma-Reese said it has hurt that plans for creating a signature building on the Oxnard campus -- a performing arts center -- had to be downsized to just a large auditorium. "We are always much more likely to spend like drunken sailors than to save our constituents' money the way we would save our own."In 2002, he drew national media attention when he boycotted a Capitol Hill hearing where a member of the Backstreet Boys, a teen-oriented singing group, testified about coal mining. Working ourselves into that kind of a funk can't be good for our psyches.Unless ...Unless there's a subconscious method to that seemingly conscious madness. They are very able to go after people in small states; you will find most of the votes on this from senators from small states."The NRA, which has spent millions of dollars over the years to promote the candidacy of gun control opponents and millions to defeat gun control advocates, has pushed hard for a shield law.Ben Tolchin, a Democratic pollster, said gun control was "one of a series of issues that Democrats have been reevaluating in the aftermath of the last couple of elections -- particularly '04."Tolchin said Democrats were "struggling to get a handle on that issue," as polls had shown that their backing of gun control measures had cost them support in the nation's growing exurbs and in rural counties.WASHINGTON In a sign of the changing politics of gun control, the Senate appears poised to pass a top priority of the National Rifle Assn.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. It occurred to me that it was me who was lost, not Lily -- I was so lost in the fear of loss, in the knowledge of all the places where the people and animals I love can go where I can't follow People, like, oh, say teenage Sam, and now Lily. But if you start by doubting, rather than presuming, the awfulness of the Plame leak, then most of those quibbles fade into irrelevance.The broader picture is that during the Bush administration, government attacks on free speech and the press are mounting and having a chilling effect.In August, the government indicted two former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee essentially for receiving classified data from a Defense Department official On Nov. Jan Scully opted not to prosecute, citing the absence of any damage to the Pearcy property and the de minimus, or insubstantial, nature of the trespass."To just call this a mere vandalism ignores the context," argued Virginia Pearcy. It's a challenge and I'm not going to give up."*Pitcher Brett Tomko (strained abdominal muscle) is eligible to come off the disabled list but is at least two weeks away from returning. We can believe now that President Bush is truly interested in a peaceful solution."Rice contended this week that there had been no change in U.S. Lee's detailed backdrop of industrial skylines and Gothic arches loses its perspective outdoors.