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• Dexter’ brings Smits back as TV crimebuster
LOS ANGELES - Jimmy Smits, a proven TV star in "L.A. Law" and "NYPD Blue," is looking like the go-to guy when a drama's juicy guest role demands leading-man heft. In the final season of "The West Wing," he was a Latino politician who becomes the ...
• For chocolate lovers: more kinds of cacao
Scientists have discovered that there are actually 10 genetic types of cacao, the plant from which chocolate is made , rather than the mere three that were thought to exist. A team of researchers did a genetic analysis of the Theobroma l. cacao ...
• Dennis Hopper plays crazy for ‘Crash’
From the premiere’s signature car crash to an L.A. police station, the show is filmed mostly in Albuquerque, N.M., where production is cheaper. A few second-unit exterior scenes were lensed in L.A. Series creator Glen Mazzara says the decision to ...
• Bank on it — bank failures will rise next year
Not as many banks are likely to fail as in the S&L crisis, largely because there are about 8,000 fewer today than there were in 1988. But that doesn't necessarily mean the problems won't be as costly or as unnerving; banks are much larger than they ...
• Germ linked to dairy kills three in outbreak
... underscore the importance of physical facility and equipment design and cross-contamination controls, particularly in older facilities that manufacture perishable, ready-to-eat foods that have a long shelf-life and that support the growth of L ...