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by Kevin Cody Fears of rate gouging by hotels during the recent fires were dispelled, at least in Hermosa Beach, by two beachside hotels that offered lower rates to fire evacuees than were offered to vacationers last month. It wasn’t because of a state law prohibiting price increases of more than 10 percent during a […]

Were these the first robots? “Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend,” by Elizabeth King and W. David Todd (Getty Publications, 245 pp., $45) by Bondo Wyszpolski The automaton of the subtitle is a walking and gesticulating figure of a friar, referred to, however, as “the monk,” and it dates back to mid-sixteenth-century […]