Peace Corps

Bolivia, angered by Kerry, says it is ejecting U.S. aid agency

2013-05-01 12:34:00

This post has been updated. Please see the notes below for details. Bolivian President Evo Morales declared Wednesday he was expelling the U.S. Agency for International Development from the country, accusing the aid agency of conspiring against his...

Arab American exhibit on display in Little Tokyo

2013-03-01 07:22:23

Dan Goods, JPL's science seer

2013-02-20 00:00:00

When artist Dan Goods arrived at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, they gave him a six-month shot. In May, he'll have been there 10 years as JPL's "visual strategist." He glued soda bottles to the roof of his Taurus to create music on an m.p.h. pipe organ....

PASSINGS: Michael Parrish, Bobby Sharp

2013-02-14 00:00:00

Michael Parrish Former editor of the Los Angeles Times magazine Michael Parrish, 67, who oversaw the reinvention of the Sunday magazine in the Los Angeles Times in the mid-1980s, died Friday of liver failure while under hospice care in the Los Angeles...

Gavin Newsom says the revolution will be digitized

2013-02-08 12:00:00

-------------------- Citizenville How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government Gavin Newsom with Lisa Dickey Penguin Press: 272 pp., $25.95 -------------------- California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom has a lot more time on his hands than...

Midge Turk Richardson dies at 82; ex-nun and Seventeen editor

2012-12-29 18:52:00

Midge Turk Richardson, a former nun and parochial school principal in Los Angeles who cast off her habit for the world of New York publishing, where she reigned for nearly two decades as editor of Seventeen magazine, has died. She was 82. Richardson,...

So close, so far, so close

2012-08-11 00:00:00

I was just months away from marrying my high school sweetheart and shipping off to the Peace Corps. I'd had a bright five-year plan that included teaching English in a faraway land. The idea of a new culture and new life filled me with the sense that...

Clinton praises ambassador to Libya, calls attackers 'savage group'

2012-09-12 09:43:08

Slain U.S. ambassador to Libya remembered for his languages, service

2012-09-12 14:02:42

Slain Libyan ambassador described as 'unflappable' by his brother

2012-09-12 17:33:18

PASSINGS: Jim Flick, Jack Hood Vaughn

2012-11-07 00:00:00

Jim Flick Longtime golf instructor Jim Flick, 82, a golf instructor for more than 50 years whose clients included Tom Lehman and Jack Nicklaus, died Monday at his home in Carlsbad, Calif., of pancreatic cancer, his family said. Flick taught golf in...

At consulate in Libya, a model diplomat is lost

2012-09-12 17:12:00

WASHINGTON — J. Christopher Stevens was in many ways the model American diplomat, committed, idealistic, willing to take risks and eager to find out what was really happening in obscure corners of the world. A lanky 52-year-old Californian, with...

Sheridan National Peace Corps Assoc.

2013-05-14 17:54:04

Peace Corps volunteers Jordan and Sarah Wein talk to a group at Bethlehem Lutheran Church about Ghana on Wednesday night. American News Photo by John Davis

2012-12-22 20:34:00

President Johnson congratulates Jack Hood Vaughn at the White House after naming him director of the Peace Corps in 1966. At right is Sargent Shriver, who preceded Vaughn.

2012-11-06 18:27:42