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...regular presence in the newsroom, even taking classified ads during the violent pressmen's strike of the mid-'70s. She visited the child-care centers she funded, folding her 6-ft. frame into many a kiddie-size chair. Last week, at an elite retreat in Sun Valley, Idaho, after lunch with Tom Hanks and before dinner with Mexican President Vicente Fox, she fell and lost consciousness. She died on Tuesday...
DIED. MIMI FARINA, 56, folk singer and sister of Joan Baez; of complications from lung cancer; in Mill Valley, Calif. An accomplished vocalist and fixture of the '60s folk scene, Farina founded Bread & Roses, an organization that enlisted well-known artists to perform in prisons, psychiatric facilities, senior centers and homes for abused children. A talented guitar player who began singing with her sister at age 14, she married Richard Farina at 18 (novelist Thomas Pynchon was best man at their wedding) and recorded two albums with him before Richard died in a motorcycle accident in 1966. Their lives...
...there's fire, at least when you live in the thirsty Southwest. Loder's 100 million-gal., 275-acre-ft. lake slurps its water from a Colorado River aqueduct; Loder pays about $15 per acre-ft. But the lake taps the canal that supplies farmers in the nearby Imperial Valley as well as the reservoirs of Los Angeles...
...Loder is using public water for a private lake. "This lake is the poster for water waste," says Buford Crites, a city councilman in nearby Palm Desert. "When much of the West is already suffering incredible problems from lack of water, here we are literally wasting it." The Coachella Valley water district appealed to the state water-resources control board to intervene, but the board refused; California law permits recreational use of Colorado River water...
...regular presence in the newsroom, even taking classified ads during the violent pressmen's strike of the mid-'70s. She visited the child-care centers she funded, folding her 6-ft. frame into many a kiddie-size chair. Last week, at an elite retreat in Sun Valley, Idaho, after lunch with Tom Hanks and before dinner with Mexican President Vicente Fox, she fell and lost consciousness. She died on Tuesday...