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Columbia University has been given Woodlawn Cemetery's vast archives of maps, pictures, mausoleum blueprints and other materials so that architects, historians and other specialists can have access to the materials.The items from the 143-year-old New York cemetery include documents about prominent figures in literature, business, jazz, theater and the arts who are buried there, including composer Duke Ellington, author Herman Melville, builder Robert Moses and jazz trumpeter Miles Davis.. The project also would pipe natural gas down the Pacific coast and join up power grids.Promoted as a way to end Central America's dependence on costly foreign imports, the $7-billion to $9-billion program also means lucrative new outlets for Mexican and Colombian oil and natural gas.It could clash with plans by major oil producer Venezuela to supply cheaper energy to the hemisphere.Central American presidents will meet in the Dominican Republic next weekend to discuss the location and scale of the refinery.It has not been decided whether to build a mid-size refinery with a 365,000 barrel-a-day processing capacity or a smaller version that would process 255,000 barrels a day.If the larger plant is built, Mexican supplies of crude to the refinery will have to be supplemented with additional imports. New England had converted its first three shootout attempts.. But like Winthrop, Villaraigosa wants his people to know that the world will be watching -- and judging -- the grand social experiment before them.To the new mayor, a glorious future is not a given.As a result, Thursday's speech was threaded, like most of his recent speeches, with a subtle reminder that L.A.'s civic and business leaders need to face the city's challenges.One remark to the Valley Industry and Commerce Assn was typical. He said that he had asked the couple not to place the flags the previous two years.But in the wake of the controversy, he purchased 72 cloth flags and is offering them to anyone who wants a replacement.

Wines from the vineyard routinely score into the 90s from the Wine Spectator magazine and critic Robert Parker. — AUDIENCES who last saw him sporting Vulcan ears, fake fangs and a shaved pate, greedily lopping up stage blood after beheading a cow, may have some trouble recognizing Deven May as the slick, pompadoured wiseguy Tommy DeVito in the Broadway hit "Jersey Boys." Though the Tony-laden show about the Four Seasons singing group does have "Boys" in the title, May, the versatile actor best known for creating the title role in "Bat Boy: The Musical," is all grown up now."I'm happy that people are now associating me with Tommy and 'Jersey Boys,' because Tommy is a man," May said in a recent interview conducted, serendipitously, in a restaurant at Newark International Airport. For years, in their efforts to restore the Channel Islands ecosystem, scientists have been working hard to bring bald eagles back.For years, as part of the same effort, they've been trying to get golden eagles to leave.Last week, not long after scientists celebrated the first bald eagle chicks hatched without human aid on Santa Cruz Island in more than half a century, experts hunting in a helicopter used a net gun to remove the last three golden eagles from the island.One was a 7-week-old chick still in its nest.