Published: April 24, 2010
After an attempted firebombing near the home of one UCLA researcher and repeated harassment that pushed another professor to halt his primate research, UCLA’s acting chancellor said Friday that he was taking steps to protect the university and its faculty from extremists in the animal rights movement.Norman Abrams, who became acting chancellor July 1, said animal rights activists in recent months have mounted what he called an escalating campaign against UCLA professors, researchers and their families.”These activities have risen to the level of domestic terrorism, and that’s what we should call them,” Abrams said in an interview Friday, as he announced a series of actions, including plans for stepped-up security at faculty homes.He also announced that UCLA would double — to $60,000 — the size of the reward the FBI has offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the attempted fire-bombing of a Bel-Air home June 30.In that incident, a crude explosive was left beside a house occupied by a 70-year-old woman and her tenant. But a late flag resulted in a pass-interference penalty on Miami’s Glenn Sharpe and Krenzel later scored on a one-yard run to push things into the second and decisive overtime.* Bottom line: Miami suffered its first loss since September 2000 and the drama of it all inspired Ohio State Coach Jim Tressel to say, “That’s what the national championship game should look like — double overtime.”*–* 2001 SEASON*–** Where: 2002 Rose Bowl, Pasadena.* Who: No 1 Miami 37, No. Wintemute and two others.Court records show that three months later, the company agreed to pay $460,000 in fines and restitution fees and plead no contest to a misdemeanor charge of illegal waste dumping.Soon after, the state toxics department began to work with Amvac on a plan to clean up the site. Espitia said she met Bayardo two or three times and was told by Pena that Bayardo lived in Guadalajara.In addition to the Familias charges, Pena allegedly bought personal items with college credit cards.On campus, opinion was divided Thursday on whether Pena’s arrest would help or harm the school’s effort to keep its accreditation.The Western Assn. I liked the idea and still do, so I was willing to write the treatment, the heavy lifting of screenwriting, on spec What’s called an if-come deal was worked out.
And “some parks have thousands of acres and only two or three rangers at each one,” he said. Oh, he also got a caricature portrait, which he graciously accepted with a smile and held up for the cheering crowd to see.On March 15, he will be inducted into the Cal State Los Angeles athletic hall of fame.While West considered leaving before — he interviewed for assistant jobs at Occidental, USC, Long Beach State and Cal State L.A. Colorado environmental regulators demanded that the asbestos be removed at a cost of $10.5 million.The city asked the Air Force for compensation, citing the federal law that makes the Defense Department liable for environmental cleanups at former bases. PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia It was the moment Yelena Milashevskaya had been waiting for since learning late last week that her husband and six crewmates were trapped in a mini-submarine under the Bering Sea.On Sunday evening, a van carrying Vyacheslav Milashevsky and the other rescued sailors sped up to the gate of a military hospital here in the capital of Russia’s Kamchatka region. KRTH dropped from ninth place with 3% in the winter to 2.5% and a tie for 13th.*(BEGIN TEXT OF INFOBOX)Radio RatingsThe area’s Top 25 stations and their average share of audience as measured by Arbitron for the spring months compared with the previous three-month period.*–* Current Last Quarter 1 KIIS-FM 4.5 4.6 2 KPWR-FM 4.2 4.7 3 KSCA-FM 4.0 3.6 KLAX-FM 4.0 3.0 KLVE-FM 4.0 3.8 6 KFI-AM 3.9 4.6 7 KTWV-FM 3.8 3.6 8 KOST-FM 3.7 3.4 KROQ-FM 3.7 4.2 10 KKBT-FM 3.2 2.9 11 KCBS-FM 3.0 1.7 12 KHHT-FM 2.9 2.6 13 KBUE-FM 2.5 2.5 KRTH-FM 2.5 3.0 15 KSSE-FM 2.4 2.1 16 KLSX-FM 2.3 2.5 17 KABC-AM 2.1 2.3 18 KXOL-FM 2.0 1.9 KLOS-FM 2.0 1.9 20 KBIG-FM 1.9 2.0 KYSR-FM 1.9 1.8 22 KZLA-FM 1.8 2.0 23 KLYY-FM 1.7 1.8 24 KMZT-FM 1.6 1.4 KFWB-AM 1.6 1.6*–*The ratings survey covers people 12 and older listening between 6 a.m and midnight, from March 31 to June 22..
refineries plunged 20% in the first two months of the year, Chevron said. The 2001 team beat second-seeded Kentucky to reach the Elite Eight. in June, and exhibitions in advance of the new season start this weekend.”We’re busy for this year trying to get a hockey team up and running,” Schulman said. Gambia ordered the expulsion of the top United Nations official in the country after she criticized assertions by President Yahya Jammeh that he was curing AIDS patients with herbs, government sources said.Fadzai Gwaradzimba, a Zimbabwean who is the resident coordinator of U.N. But they were still haunted by a creeping sense of guilt that they’d abandoned their city, even for a short time.”My co-workers are still there, dealing with God knows what,” paramedic Jeanne Dunn said.Dunn left her uptown New Orleans apartment Aug 29 to start work. “We have these really intense, interpersonal connections with these stars.”NBC eased the transition from Tom Brokaw to Brian Williams in December by announcing the move two years ahead of time and giving viewers ample opportunities to watch Williams as a substitute anchor.
has secured an advantage nearly as important to its strategic interests in the region as the democratic revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine: a transport link for billions of barrels of new Caspian Sea oil through U.S.-friendly terrain, bypassing both Iran and Russia.President Bush, in a written message to the gathered leaders, called the pact for the pipeline between regional governments and a private oil consortium led by BP “the contract of the century.”Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said the $3.4-billion pipeline, which is due to ship 1 million barrels of oil a day by 2008, represents “a geopolitical victory for Azerbaijan and its allies … Ten years ago, when her fiance broke a leg and was out of work, the couple fell behind in rent and were evicted. The prosecutor also said Marsh had deluded Buell and others.”I would ask you to consider very carefully whether or not the character witnesses really have the full story as to what kind of person Mr Marsh is,” Coulter said.On Nov 28, 1983, the jury found Marsh guilty. No Republican voted against Bush’s nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Consider, for example, a single filer who spends $100 a month on cell and long-distance services. For Wayne Gretzky, before the Game 7 victory at Toronto that put the Kings in the 1993 Stanley Cup finals, it came in an elevator.In “Crowning Moments,” an FSN West special to be televised after the Kings’ game Wednesday night, Gretzky talks about making small talk with one of the security people while riding in the elevator.”He was explaining to me how it really isn’t that busy right now because the craziness will be starting at 10:30.