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...family values, not property values, that motivated Rabbi Perry Netter and his wife Esther, a museum executive director, to begin birdnesting in 1997, when it became clear that their marriage had soured. Their three children, then ages 7 to 12, continued to live in the Netters' five-bedroom Los Angeles home. Perry and Esther rented an apartment around the corner and swapped residences every Monday. "Children need stability, and we were trying to provide that," says Perry. The arrangement cushioned the impact of the separation on the Netter children. Though only one parent lived with them at a time...
...MEXICO Zapatistas Have Their Day in Congress Leaders of the Zapatista rebel movement presented their case for the first time, pressing legislators to pass a bill protecting indigenous rights, and later held informal talks with government advisers. Comandante Esther, who led the delegation to Congress, said the rebels' mission was no longer military, but political. President Vicente Fox said he was confident of a peace agreement as the group prepared for the long trek back to their home state of Chiapas...
...Latypovs have U.S. patents for their virtual sphere and the motion capture system at its heart. The virtual studio is awaiting a patent. Their technology is "awesome," says Internet doyenne Esther Dyson. So why hasn't the five-year-old company thrived...
...dingy wall: "It was said, you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you." It was, she thought, one of the most important lessons that Hannah, Victoria, Esther, Loice, Mary and Charity could learn. It was also the only thing that Valori could think of just hours later as she raced to the hospital in the industrial city of Wuhan on Feb. 3 to find her husband, Bruce, stabbed to death by a misguided member of their Christian Youth Fellowship...
...international image to help its bid to bring the Olympics to Beijing in 2008. "We like her very much, but the Christian woman should return to America," says a local policeman. For now, Valori sits quietly in the tiny apartment she wants to keep as home. Hannah, Victoria, Esther, Loice, Mary and Charity have said their prayers and are tucked into their bunk beds. The prized upright piano she and Bruce bought last November sits in her bedroom, ready for the morning's hymns. And as the policemen, cadres and other details of the communist state tromp through her living...