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...years in homicide he had dealt mostly with domestic fights or failed robberies. Chapman's waving hand was beckoning him into a different world, one of pimps, drugs, $20 prostitutes--and a predator who was picking up these women and killing them in secluded sites in the surrounding dark forest, thick with undergrowth, dripping with rain...
...jewelry," says Bruce Kalin, a detective brought in on the case in early 1984. At each dump site, the cops cut away the undergrowth and sifted through the topsoil for several hundred yards in every direction. It took three to four days to process each set of remains. The forest helped turn up evidence for those who knew how to look. The decomposing bodies made the soil more acidic, turning overhanging foliage yellow. The number of layers of leaves on the remains indicated how many years they had been there...
...Brien’s video presentation began as a mock tourist advertisement for Utah, complete with shots of forest and mountains, ending with the line “Scenic Utah. Let’s send Mitt Romney back,” and inspired widespread cheers from delegates...
...ouli, or black-faced honeycreeper, just ended, and researchers in Hawaii were unable to mate successfully two of the three remaining birds in the species. Suffering from habitat loss and disease, the po'ouli faces extinction on the slopes of Maui's Haleakala volcano. Researchers at the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project finally captured one of the two remaining females last month. At dusk the female was released into the territory of the only remaining male. But the next morning, the female po'ouli fluttered homeward without ever encountering the unaware male. "We're disappointed," said project coordinator Jim Groombridge...
...digital releases sent to the few theaters with digital-projection booths cannot be displayed elsewhere. Future digital films may have additional defenses: the Motion Picture Association of America is looking into digital-projection technology that will make it impossible to videotape digital movies off a theater screen. But Bruce Forest, an independent media-technology consultant, says the real battle may be on the home front: "The pirating technology is getting better and better, to the point that we're pretty much at DVD level. Who's going to want to wait for DVD or VHS releases?" The Lucas camp says...