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...between the two agencies. "Investigations are being compromised by the TSA notifying people we don't want to know we're pursuing," says an FBI agent. But the FBI can't always blame the TSA. FBI agents were tracking Umer and Hamid Hayat, the father and son from Lodi, Calif., who were arrested June 5 on suspicion of being linked to al-Qaeda. (They have pleaded not guilty.) Hamid was also on the TSA's no-fly list and could not return to the U.S., where the FBI was waiting to question him. But it turned out that...
DIED. ROWLAND WILSON, 74, cartoonist for Esquire, the New Yorker and, most famously, Playboy, where his full-page watercolors were a relatively sex-free staple of the men's magazine; of heart failure; in Encinitas, Calif. A longtime painter of witty ads for New England Life Insurance, he helped animate such Disney films as Tarzan and The Little Mermaid...
...Hong Kong Disneyland looks exactly like the one most Americans remember from their childhood, but it won't taste the same. The classic Disney thoroughfare of quaint buildings and gas streetlights has been lovingly re-created from the original theme park Walt Disney built in Anaheim, Calif., which opened 50 years ago this week. But Walt's vision of idyllic small-town America now has a surprisingly un-Midwestern twist. Inside one Victorian building is Main Street's first Chinese restaurant, the Plaza Inn, crafted as a stylish tea shop from early 20th century Shanghai. The interior has traditional landscapes...
...buoyed by a series of Pulitzer-prizewinning editorials in the Sacramento Bee, two new books and technical studies commissioned by the Oakland, Calif., office of Environmental Defense, the Restore Hetch Hetchy campaign is stirring up more interest than anyone expected. This week the California Resources Agency is host to a daylong workshop on the Hetch Hetchy question that promises to look broadly at what is known about the costs--and the benefits--of pulling the dam down...
DIED. JAMES STOCKDALE, 81, candid, self-deprecating Navy vice admiral who earned the Medal of Honor for his rare courage in Vietnam and later ran for Vice President with Ross Perot; after a battle with Alzheimer's; in Coronado, Calif. After leading the first U.S. air strike into North Vietnam in 1964, he was captured and imprisoned the following year at the infamous "Hanoi Hilton." As the senior officer, he was singled out by captors, who brutalized him repeatedly over 71/2 years and held him in solitary confinement for four years. Inspiring fellow POWS, including Senator John McCain, with...