The crackdown, part of the sheriff's department new zero-tolerance for street racers and spectators, started at 8 p.m. and lasted for hours. It took place at the corner of Long Beach Boulevard and Imperial Highway and involved more than 80 deputies and 20 Highway Patrol officers. .

Imax Parlays a Huge Screen and 3-D Tech Into an Experience You Can't ...

Today, Imax is also in the business of screening concerts, 3-D animation, and Hollywood blockbusters such as I Am Legend or the latest Harry Potter flick. The company is breaking out of museums as well: Soon, you're likely to see one of its supersize screens pop up at a nearby multiplex.

Imax's towering images and stunning sound quality have always been an easy sell for audiences. But the enormous cost of producing that experience has long limited the company's growth. Now it's possible to convert a standard Hollywood film into the big-screen format, but just a few years ago, only Imax's Volkswagen-size cameras could produce an Imax film. In July, the company will take another leap and move from a film-based system to a digital format. Movies that were previously delivered in unwieldy, 600-pound film canisters (requiring a special forklift) will now arrive on a hard drive.

Review: 'Tir na nÓg' a bumpy ride

It's a disappointing outing for both Smith, directing his last play as the Magic's outgoing artistic director, and O'Brien. Her inventively constructed and tantalizingly oblique "Triptych" in '03 remains one of the highlights of Smith's five-year tenure. "Girls" and the succeeding novels that make up "The Country Girls Trilogy" ("The Lonely Girl" and "Girls in Their Married Bliss") were the books that established O'Brien as one of Ireland's leading contemporary writers (getting banned in Ireland didn't hurt).

But the lack of descriptive clarity that haunts the novels carries over into the dramatization in ways that will frustrate those who know the books and perplex those who don't. Characters who play important roles in young Kate's life are reduced to broad caricatures - or, in the case of Michael Louis Wells' Hickey, touching anomalies - whose relationship to her or purpose in the story is left unexplained.

Senator: Arizona prisons are progressing

HONOLULU (AP) _ A Hawaii senator says he's pleased with two privately run Arizona prisons that house island inmates.

The prisons have been criticized for an accidental release of seven inmates in August and complaints by former employees who say the facilities are mismanaged.

Senator Will Espero says the prisons run by Tennessee-based Corrections Corporation of America are moving in the right direction. He is the chairman of the Senate Public Safety Committee.

He inspected the prisons with two other senators and a Public Safety Department deputy director on Friday and Saturday.

Plumbing and college courses still haven't started at the prisons, and officials want video conferencing to become available so inmates can keep in touch with their families at home.

What makes an award-winning hotel?

Bekhit who is regional vice president of the Four Seasons and has been the general manager of the Four Seasons Istanbul enjoys relating incidents like this involving his staff. He has often only found out about them later.

Asked in an interview with the Turkish Daily News what he believed makes a hotel successful, Bekhit replied, so far we've been blessed with great employees because our selection is very important. Human resources has an incredible role to play in selecting the right sources. Human resources collects the people and then they go through at least four interviews. So when we accept someone as an employee, we feel that he or she will be successful within the family. 99 percent will stay with us and we are sure that he or she will do what we tell them to.

That's when you start from the beginning.