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...knee-capped by his motherland. Before dawn on Oct. 4, Chinese police knocked at his residence in Shenyang and summoned him for questioning. Authorities have since filed a "case for criminal activity" against him, according to the official China News Service. The charges are unclear, but Yang, a flower-seed tycoon worth an estimated $900 million, recently acknowledged publicly that he owed the Chinese government some $1.2 million in taxes. Tax evasion by China's fat cats is a national scandal, and Beijing is keen to nail some high-profile deadbeats...
...small cemetery is surrounded by fields, farmland and vineyards. A simple stone cross marks a flower-strewn grave, the final resting place of one of the world's most beloved actresses. Audrey Hepburn spent the last 30 years of her life in this quiet Swiss village, and she wanted to be buried here in a cemetery close to her sprawling 19th century house. The actress, who died of colon cancer in January 1993, liked the simplicity of Tolochenaz, located 40 km east of Geneva. But her legacy has fueled a conflict between her sons and some residents of the village...
...tunnels and finding the sun painful to his eyes. "North Korea has been closed for 50 years," he says. "You have to give them light bit by bit." China's Orchid King wants his drab new homeland to reach for the sun?and, for the first time, to flower...
...attend an ecumenical service held in the Berlin Dom. Citizens of Anchorage will be able to make free long-distance phone calls to loved ones at a designated call center. The mayor of Birmingham, Ala., will dedicate the new Memorial Walk, which includes a ribbon-shaped sculpture and a flower garden. In Jerusalem a ceremony will be held at the Israel Museum, followed by an exhibit of Joel Meyerowitz's ground zero photos. In Cincinnati, Ohio, 343 empty pairs of boots will stand at the fire-fighter memorial as a tribute to the comrades who died in the World Trade...
...flask can be almost as important as its contents, the idea of swamping packaging with ugly words like ethyl linalool and geraniol is heresy. Even worse, Bodifee argues, the labels would be a free recipe that "favors counterfeiters." That could be devastating to areas of France like Grasse, a flower-growing town that brings in j600 million a year producing about half of French perfumes' raw materials and 8% of the world's. But the stink the industry has been raising may pay off. Negotiations with the E.U. will take place in October, and perfumers already think they smell victory...