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...near the library of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. All they hear are birds chirping. Steven Reani does his exercises in the early morning near a deserted shopping mall--except on the weekends when he does them on the vast green lawn in front of the Capitol, where dozens of Falun Gong practitioners assemble...
...news of her husband's kidnapping from a place she'd never heard of in the Philippines. It didn't make sense to the 35-year-old mother of three. Her Peruvian-born husband seals pools and outdoor decks for a living, and likes coming home to mow the lawn with their three-year-old son trailing behind. When he he had been missing for several days, Fanny had been worried enough to file a missing person's report with the Corona police, suggesting they check his favorite hangouts, like the Uoko Japanese restaurant in nearby Tustin. She certainly didn...
...acquired it and began a 20-year restoration and enhancement project. So far, the cost has been more than $55 million for improvements that include retrofitting the 389-room main building to more than meet California earthquake standards. Rooms have been reconfigured and refurbished; restaurants, terraces and an oceanfront lawn have been added. Pending discussions with civic and environmental groups, the corporation hopes to build more guests rooms, a vast conference center and a spa-and-fitness facility; add more green space; place most parking underground; and restore a classic garden...
George W. Bush, for his part, intends to stay ahead of the curve. The day before Cinco de Mayo, he invited 200 guests to the South Lawn for mariachi music and Mexican food. "Mi Casa Blanca," he declared, "es su Casa Blanca...
...matriarch of a large family that has given years of sweat to the maquiladoras, Valles is one of more than 100,000 Juarez residents who have no running water. She's confident the U.S. will help pony up the funds to turn on her faucets. Watching over a front "lawn" of sand and brush as a caged parrot on her porch creates an illusion of oasis, she insists, "We're all here because the Americans wanted us here...