archaeologist elsa redmond thinks this strange gallery of grotesque carvings may hold the key to that mystery. redmond: these figures have been subjected to all kinds of interpretations -- dancers, swimmers, ecstatic priests medical anomalies. but there's certain clues on these stone slabs that help us understand what they represent. they are nude male figures. their eyes are closed. their mouths are open, or grimacing, in pain. their arms are braced and with with cupped hands in submissive gestures. their legs are splayed out in awkward, distorted poses. this one is wearing a hair knot and pony tail that we know warriors wore in mesoamerica. also an ear spool, that suggests he might have been an individual of high status. it's important that he's shown naked because in mesoamerica captives were shown naked as a sign of their humiliation. keach: redmond thinks that each of these figures may represent a chief or warrior from a competing group who had been captured and taken to monte alban to be sacrificed. redmond: the fact that there are 300 or more of these male figures portrayed on

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the company says it plans to hire people with autism for full-time positions at its headquarters in redmondys the candidates add a particular strength to the staff. they say people with autism have an amazing ability to retain information and excel in math and coding. the program kicks off in may with ten full-time positions. >>> a new perk for thousands of starbucks employees. the coffee chain will now pay for all four years of an online bachelor's degree from arizona state university. previously starbucks only reimbursed employees for the last two years of the program. to be eligible a starbucks employee must be working 20 hours a week or more. nearly 2,000 starbucks employees have already enrolled in this online program from asu. >>> well we've seen snow. we saw some rain. can we expect to see more in the next couple days? >> and some hail at times. we're starting to see the storm leave the bay area. showers east of san jose. the north bay starting to clear on out. but don't pack away your umbrellas just yet. we'll show you why in the forecast, coming up. >>> it's a waiting game. there h

i used to work in redmond, washington and los angeles, california. and in my old pd in los angeles, we had a situation, florence and normandy a flash point. and the commander on the ground withdrew and the whole city blew up. unfortunately, we haven't learned that lesson. i do not understand why. we cannot get people in power who are willing to support officers on the street doing this tough job to protect life and property. >> of course. there is the vicious circle then. l.z., the video of the riots that you have seen has left you speechless. why that word? >> you know, first i just want to address something that your other guest said. excuse me. that is that these incidents aren't happening in vacuums. i understand that the police officers have are a very difficult job. he brought up the l.a. riots. you had a police chief, a police detective, rather planting evidence on a black man, and had been doing it for years. and it was well-known within the police department, and the police did not do anything about it until the o.j. simpson trial. here you

. >> a computer program manager from redmond, washington, joe parr is a relative newcomer to paragliding. in january 2005, he has every reason to believe his flight will be a pleasant experience. >> paragliding is the most beautiful thing anybody can do. relaxing. a good paragliding flight will take you high, near the clouds, and can go for hours and for many miles. woo-hoo. unlike sky diving, there's no big thrill of you falling. you just lift gently off. >> it was a trip of a lifetime, ten days of soaring through the temperate skies of vaya de bravo, mexico. >> i had flown a couple times every day. great flights. flew high and far. mexico is a great place because there's great flying weather. >> parr and his fellow paragliders are all wearing helmets with cameras attached. >> the thermals have sharp edges but not as bad as it was yesterday. >> there was nothing abnormal. the weather was good. >> i'm at 9,000. >> but suddenly parr's flying skills are put to the test by a massive thermal blast. >> you can think of it as a wall of air going up. and the result of that is that the front end

with us from headquarters in redmond, washington. what is at issue here? the protection of people's privacy. we believe that when people -- when the u.s. government wants to get your e-mail, they need to get a search warrant approved by a magistrate and needs to be governed by the rule of law. when it sits overseas and belongs to a resident of another country, those residents deserve to be protected by their own law . if that is not the case, other governments will be able to reach into u.s. data centers and get your e-mail without respecting our laws. this is fundamental to the protection of everyone's privacy. erik: the e-mails you are talking about, if they are stored on a foreign server, are the e-mails between non-u.s. persons or are they -- or could they be e-mails that a u.s. person initiated or received that microsoft has chosen to store overseas? brad: we store people's e-mails in a datacenter that is close to where they live. if americans have e-mails, we store them in the united states. the u.s. government has a jurisdictional basis to get them.