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...investigation of the sect by China's security services, during which agents infiltrated Falun Gong activities and clandestinely videotaped exercise sessions. The investigation was reportedly ordered by President Jiang Zemin himself after the silent demonstration by 10,000 members of Falun Gong on April 25 outside Zhongnanhai, the Beijing compound where China's top leaders live. At that time the group said it was protesting magazine articles labeling it a superstitious cult, a charge that could have led to its being banned. Instead it wanted to be recognized as a legitimate religious group...
Enter the Greek shipping tycoon. Seventeen days late and half a world away, Rory Kennedy?s marriage to Mark Bailey went off privately and without fanfare on Monday night. The refuge? Not the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport anymore ? too haunted ? but the Vardinoyiannis compound in Ekali, a suburb of Athens, an estate that not only subsumes an entire block but is most helpfully surrounded by a nine-foot wall. All courtesy of Vardis Vardinoyiannis, whose wife knows the bride?s aunt, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, from a few Special-Olympics bake sales, and all impenetrable to a ravenous press which...
...also determined to keep the family's deliberations--and its sorrow--out of view. When she found out that someone from the family was offering reporters details of life inside the compound, she asked Ted to shut that down. One of John's closest friends, former Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow, said he "paid dearly" for appearing on TV. Though he'd already booked a flight from New Orleans to New York for the memorial service, he pointedly wasn't invited...
Once groundwater is contaminated, it is hard to clean up. In 1,345 shallow wells sampled by the U.S. Geological Survey, about 15% exceeded drinking-water standards for nitrate (a nitrogen compound), which at high levels can lead to the potentially fatal "blue baby" syndrome in infants. Many suspect aquifers were in California, the Great Plains and the Mid-Atlantic region. Pesticides have shown up in more than half of shallow wells the USGS studied in agricultural and urban areas. "Is it right that people in rural communities should have to buy bottled water?" Seacrest asks. "What kind...
Kennedy is not ashamed to use his famous name to boost his climb. Until last week's vigil darkened the family's Hyannis Port compound, he had planned to hold a clambake there in September for $100,000 donors. On the stump, he often invokes his father and the memories of his slain uncles and speaks of his crusade as a thread in the great family tapestry. "Bringing the House back into Democratic control is the way he talks about contributing to the family legacy," says a Democratic leadership aide...