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Toddlers tend not to share, but give it time – latimes.com

Toddlers tend not to share, but give it time – latimes.com:

I wonder how many of these kids in the study were siblings or only children and whether that affected their ability to share at age 5 or 6. This morning, I was pretty shocked when Chris (who will be 19 months tomorrow) gave back a car he had snatched from his big brother’s hand. I think siblings, especially the ones closer in age, learn to share much earlier.

One-hour road trips

Neptunes Net by Bob Chamberlin/Los Angeles Times

Neptune's Net by Bob Chamberlin/Los Angeles Times

Is it just me, or have the L.A. Times’ writers finally begun to realize that not everyone can afford to go to Europe or eat at 4-star restaurants?? Today, they finally came up with a list of places you can reach with one gas tank. Oh, there are so many places, but their list includes Vasquez Rocks, Neptune’s Net and Carpinteria State Beach. Not a bad list! Neptune’s Net is a place I’m especially eager to visit. (And, is it just me, but was this the place featured in “That Thing You Do!”?? Remember, Joe’s Shrimp Shack?) A few things I wish they had also included are fees — parking fees, admission fees. Oh well. That’s why you get the website addresses, I guess.

But in Los Angeles, there are so many other places that can be done for on the cheap, admission, gas and mileage-wise. Here are a few of the places I’ve been meaning to check out:

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‘Dewey Defeats Truman’ moment? Not quite

CNET’s got screen shots of a few advance stories the L.A. Times had prepared pending the announcement of Obama’s VP. Is it really their ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’ moment? Not quite.

First off, journalists have to do this stuff. It’s not fun, believe me. I remember a few years ago, a bunch of AP’s prepared obituaries got out. That’s just a fact of life in journalism. They’re not making things up, as one commenter in the CNET article suggested. They’re preparing — after all, wasn’t the Obama campaign being all coy for a while? Nobody was sure, so as you would expect your local newspaper to do, they were covering all their bases.

Their only boo boo was putting the stories on a server that was accessible by the public. That happens. Just be glad the stories weren’t slugged (named, in news speak) goofy names, like Obama.Chooses.OldGuy or Obama.VP.BallBuster. Yeah, that’s happened, but not exactly like that.