Word: ranchos
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Meanwhile, the owner of the mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., where the cultists died, has taken a first round of bids on the property, which includes a sauna, a fitness room and tennis courts; even though the owner paid $30,000 to "sanitize" the house, no bid has yet come close to the mansion's pre-suicide value--about $1.5 million. The real estate agent handling the sale, Randall Bell, is an expert at moving "distressed" properties, having previously consulted, he says, on the sales of homes where Nicole Simpson, JonBenet Ramsey and Sharon Tate passed away...
...another part of the alien-conscious nation, at Rancho Santa Fe, near San Diego, Calif., 39 disciples of the Heaven's Gate cult mixed phenobarbital, applesauce and vodka, slipped plastic bags over their heads and persuaded themselves that they were headed for a better life among the stars. Their suicide--the most lethal of the year's mass emotional activities--came in response to the appearance of the Hale-Bopp comet, an astronomical surprise that incited other public anxieties about the coming millennium...
Fertility clinics are probably racing to help turn out the first octuplets. Do we really need this? LINCOLN HAYNES Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif...
DIED. MARGUERITE HENRY, 95, creator of fiction's favored steeds--Misty of Chincoteague, Sham (of the Newbery Award-winning King of the Wind), Brighty and Black Gold; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif...
...Students may not be able to physically drop out at 14," says Shari Gonzales, head of Rio Rancho's first-year academy, "but mentally they can." After two months, it is too early to tell if Rio Rancho will prevent that. But if education reforms are worth anything, this high-desert incubator, perched Acropolis-like over the Rio Grande Valley, means to show and tell. --By Margot Hornblower/Rio Rancho...