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...agreed to attend the world's first "serious" international UFO conference to hear new evidence, but after a self-proclaimed "abductee" reneged on his promise to take a polygraph test, the federal attendees left the gathering, skepticism intact. That didn't deter conference organizer Allen Hynek, founder of the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Ill., and a tireless campaigner to legitimize the field of "UFOlogy." "We need to stop arguing the existence of eggs and get down to cooking the omelet," he told TIME that year. (See the mankind's greatest explorations and adventures...
...show didn't mean the end of Second City's empire. The next year, it opened its training center at Second City in Chicago, where its principles of improv technique were formalized and taught. (While all actors are chosen only after a rigorous audition, most of the troupe's younger stars are products of the training center; Steve Carell, Rachel Dratch, Chris Farley and Fey are all former students.) But not all attempts at expansion worked out. Second cities in Pasadena and Santa Monica, Calif., and Edmonton, Alberta, soon shuttered, while theaters in Las Vegas and Detroit meandered along...
Byrne, who teaches in the department of communications, spoke at the Berkman Center For Internet & Society at Harvard Law School yesterday afternoon as part of a weekly luncheon series to facilitate the discussion of pressing media issues...
...France took a first step in 2002, when then Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy closed down the Red Cross-run refugee shelter in the Sangatte suburb of Calais, which had housed thousands of illegals planning a jump to England. That only sent inhabitants of Sangatte's center flocking to other parts of Calais and its environs...
...That's not how Lefilleul's Secours Catholique day center, due to begin operating in January, is viewed across the Channel, where some hostile press reports dubbed it Sangatte II. "This is another gesture of contempt from France to Britain," said U.K. Conservative Party shadow immigration minister Damian Green. "It will encourage more potential illegal immigrants to try to break...