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...breakfast the next morning at the Rainbow Room, which is on the 65th floor and has views of all of Manhattan. She told me she wasn't much of a breakfast person. I called her Tuesday afternoon, suggesting tea. She told me to come to my great-aunt and -uncle's apartment instead, since she'd already had a big lunch. I went there and sat for three hours while they talked about trips to Israel and newly discovered food allergies. Gluten is a silent killer...
...youngest was a 12-year-old boy. His family members, he said, were neighborhood leaders of the movement. When the crackdown began, the boy arrived home from school one day to find police surrounding his house. Three weeks later, the authorities broke in to discover his grandmother and aunt hanging side by side in a dual suicide. The boy and his mother were incarcerated at the kindergarten where she taught, but refused to renounce Falun Gong. So last December, when a labor-camp sentence seemed certain, his mother gave her son to other practitioners, kissed him goodbye and fled...
...naval base on Cuba's Guantanamo Bay, Roque, then 35, moved to Miami. He infiltrated Brothers to the Rescue, which Castro considers a threatening paramilitary cell, and, as part of his front, sought a spouse. He chose Martinez, whom he met in a Bible-study group at his aunt's Baptist church. Says Martinez: "I was perfect for him because I was politically naive." Roque started an ardent courtship and, say court documents, in his secret communiques to Havana referred to Martinez as "the Merry Widow...
...Falun Gong orphan, living testimony of the crackdown's wreckage. His family members were neighborhood leaders, lieutenants in the group's structure. When the crackdown began, the boy returned from school to find police surrounding his home. Twenty days later, the authorities broke in to discover his granny and aunt hanging side by side in a dual suicide, presumably to avoid persecution. They incarcerated the boy's mother in the kindergarten where she taught. She slept on a cot in the storeroom. The boy slept beside her. They refused to renounce Falun Gong. Last December, when a labor-camp sentence...
...Eating your great aunt Hilda?s famous potato salad at a family picnic We?re sure it?s just as tasty as everyone says it is, but if that salad sits outside for more than about eight minutes in midday heat, it could be a breeding ground for all sorts of bacteria...