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People often fantasize about what it’d be like to fly, to be wholly unencumbered by the strictures of gravity. On a recent overcast day, many riders of the Silver Bullet, the new roller coaster at Knott’s Berry Farm, said the...
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- Tue Mar 14, 2006 15:09:27 PST
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Steaming springs on a high-desert plain. Sharp-edged peaks layered in ice. Clear mountain lakes brimming with trout. A ragged ghost town in a windy vale. A fishless lake with limestone pillars. Those are some of the sites in this arid...
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- Tue Mar 14, 2006 14:58:04 PST
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How do you present the prehistoric without it seeming, well, prehistoric? That’s one of the questions the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has wrestled with recently. The museum’s answer: snazzy exhibits...
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- Tue Mar 14, 2006 14:44:35 PST
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A nondescript area in the Santa Monica Mountains has stood in for 13th-century China, colonial Salem, San Francisco, a South Sea island and the Wild West. Ringo Starr, Buck Owens, Cecil B. Demille, Bob Hope, Cary Grant and Gary Cooper...
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- Tue Mar 14, 2006 14:30:01 PST
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In the mid-’80s the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) set up camp here. With moderate earthquakes of about 6 on the Richter scale occurring along the San Andreas Fault near Parkfield at regular intervals since 1867, it has the...
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- Tue Mar 14, 2006 14:20:06 PST
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Of the three sibling cities of the South Bay, this is the ugly duckling, the one that doesn’t get a date for the prom. While Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach bask in muscular surfers and hard-bodied, bikini-clad women, this...
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- Tue Mar 14, 2006 14:07:13 PST
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Thirty-five years ago, Loretta Houchin visited several Rodeo Drive boutiques, trying on clothes, hats, belts and high heels to experience, for a fleeting moment, the good life. Dressed to the hilt in boutique clothes and accessories, the...
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- Tue Mar 14, 2006 13:54:58 PST
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As six thoroughbreds carve the final turn of a mud-caked track, the crowd swells with excitement. “Bring that baby home,” shouts Steve Martinez, chugging his arms like a train engine. It’s the first horse race of...
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- Tue Mar 14, 2006 13:48:25 PST
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There’s only one thing greater than visiting the sequoias. It’s visiting the majestic trees without the chatter of endless crowds or the buzz of a constant stream of cars. Then there’s the added pleasure of clear, fresh...
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- Tue Mar 14, 2006 13:40:28 PST
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The blistering temperatures in Bakersfield frequently have residents fleeing to cooler spots on the coast. But for people looking to avoid the crowds — and take in one of the most beautiful natural landscapes in the country —...
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- Tue Mar 14, 2006 13:33:42 PST
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Spread like exclamation points across the pages of Earth’s history are end moments — the death of the last dinosaur 65 million years ago, for instance. There are beginnings, too, the moment the first North American stepped...
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- Tue Mar 14, 2006 13:22:49 PST
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Hiking is an increasingly popular pastime across the nation, and we in Bakersfield are lucky to be near mountain regions full of great hiking trails. The Upper Kern Canyon, about one hour’s drive from Bakersfield north of...
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- Tue Mar 14, 2006 13:13:32 PST
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Even the most harried seem to relax when viewing waterfalls. The sight and sound are the perfect tonic for calming the frothy cascades within. Chris Shaffer has calmed his inner turbulence more than most. Over the last several years, he...
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- Tue Mar 14, 2006 13:06:14 PST
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The Piute-Shoshone of the Mojave Desert used to tell a primordial tale of a tribe living deep in the musty bowels of Earth. An elder released a hummingbird there, and the bird zipped upward through a twisting tunnel to daylight, where...
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- Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:55:52 PST
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