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Authorities Raid California Museums
By GREG RISLING – 2 hours ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal agents executed search warrants Thursday at several Southern California museums, looking for stolen antiquities, officials said.
Authorities were searching the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana and the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, said Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A search warrant was also issued for the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena.
A law enforcement source who had been briefed on the matter but spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation said authorities are looking for looted artifacts from Southeast Asia and whether appraisals of the items were inflated for improper tax deductions.
No arrests have been made, authorities said.
Officials videotaped certain exhibits and took notes on legal pads at the Bowers Museum while reporters waited outside. A phone message left with a museum spokeswoman was not immediately returned.
At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, reporters also gathered outside the front doors.
“We are cooperating fully with the investigation,” said LACMA spokeswoman Allison Agsten, who declined further comment.
A call to the Pacific Asia Museum was not immediately returned.
Associated Press Writer Gillian Flaccus in Santa Ana contributed to this report.
Southwest Gets Ready to Pack(et)
Southwest Airlines will test wireless Internet access via satellite on domestic flights in the second quarter of this year, and also could test IP-based television.
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The Pacific-North American Plate Boundary
Joann M. Stock
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 8:00 PM
Beckman Auditorium
FREE; no tickets or reservations required
The Pacific-North American Plate Boundary, Mexican Style
The San Andreas fault system in California marks the boundary between two of the earth’s major tectonic plates: the Pacific plate and the North American plate. What happens to this plate boundary as it goes south into Mexico and underwater in the Gulf of California? From the international border region southward, the plates have been moving slightly apart, leading to deeper sedimentary basins and more volcanism. Recently-recognized correlations of these deposits over distances of hundreds of kilometers allow the changes in the plate boundary over the past six million years to be more easily reconstructed.
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Joann M. Stock is Professor of Geology and Geophysics at Caltech.
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