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Vacationers in Martha's Vineyard last week caught a glimpse of an exotic out-of-towner. A RED-FOOTED FALCON, which alighted at the local airport, was the first of its species ever seen in the western hemisphere. How did the bird, which usually migrates between southern Africa and Europe or Central Asia, wind up on the wrong continent? One theory: a storm over central Africa may have blown the falcon off course...
...Clintons are known to stay at Friedman’s Martha’s Vineyard house when they visit there in the summer, and Clinton appointed Friedman chair of the National Capital Planning Commission, a group that offers guidance for federal land building in the D.C. region...
...experience, are leaving hard labor behind for good. Mexican workers in California's wine country have been preparing for generations to face their unique challenge: trading grape-stained work gloves for ownership papers. Since the 1940s, millions of Mexicans have traveled across the border to work the California vineyards. Those economics haven't changed in what is now the $33 billion U.S. wine capital. During harvest, Napa County is home to up to 2,700 migrant workers, most from Mexico. For as much as $15 an hour, the workers endure 18-hour days of backbreaking labor, often with no benefits...
Salvador Renteria traveled illegally across the border in the early 1960s to work in Napa. He moved up from driving stakes in the vineyards as a laborer for $20 a day to being a salaried foreman and supervisor. His son Oscar earned a college degree while learning all his father knew about vineyard management. In 1987 Salvador opened Renteria Vineyard Management, which oversees 1,500 acres of vineyard for 27 high-profile clients, employs 130 people and hauls in revenues of $8 million a year. Recently Oscar, 36, who took over the company in 1993, launched the company...
...DIED. MANFRED SCHOENI, 58, Hong Kong-based art dealer who championed contemporary Chinese artists, including the country's Pop Art painters; of stab wounds apparently inflicted during a robbery; on Boracay Island, the Philippines. Schoeni, who owned two Hong Kong galleries and a South African vineyard, helped create the 1990s boom in mainland...