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...Boston College abruptly rescinded two student groups' invitation to former Weather Underground member William Ayers to speak on campus. The spokesman for BC said he had no clue Ayers was due to speak until the Boston Herald told him so—and shortly thereafter, the event was canceled. But indefatigable student organizers are trying to get the founding member of the violent, radical left organization to speak off-campus...
...Lion in Your Lap!" Experiments in depth simulation go back to the first years of movies. At the end of the 19th century, British inventor William Friese-Greene secured a patent for a 3-D movie process. In 1915 Edwin S. Porter, whose The Great Train Robbery had stoked the first great movie sensation a dozen years before, presented a series of 3-D documentary shorts to a New York City audience, who viewed the short documentaries through anaglyph (red-green) glasses. In the 1920s, many 3-D shorts appeared on programs at theaters such as New York's Roxy...
...Activity Report (SAR) from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), also part of Treasury. But for FinCEN to act, it must receive a confidential SAR from a bank. No report, no investigation. In the case of JPMorgan Chase, SARs are issued by the director of global anti-money-laundering, William Langford. Langford was not available for comment. Spokesmen for both OCC and FinCEN could not comment...
...result of the spill, one of the worst ecological disasters in history, and the populations of those species have yet to fully recover. The lucrative herring and salmon fisheries are still damaged - by one estimate, the spill cost local fishermen nearly $300 million. "On the surface, Prince William Sound looks like it has regained its majesty," says Keith Colburn, an Alaskan fisherman and one of the stars of the reality TV series The Deadliest Catch. "But below the surface it's completely different." (Listen to Colburn talk about the Exxon Valdez anniversary on this week's Greencast...
...environment, oil lingered in the area for years, some of it still biologically active and toxic. Because many Arctic species have long lifespans and slow reproductive cycles, wildlife recovery has been slow. Pacific herring - a keystone of both the commercial fishing industry and the marine food web in Prince William Sound - were spawning at the time of the spill, and were hit particularly hard. "The herring stocks still haven't recovered," says Colburn...