Eventual burial site fuels emotional, political debate
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TEL AVIV -- As Yasser Arafat's condition deteriorated in a hospital outside Paris yesterday, an explosive political crisis was brewing in Israel and the occupied territories over where the man who personifies the Palestinian national movement eventually would be buried.
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An oil companyâs plan to begin exploratory drilling near the remote site of Robert Smithsonâs âSpiral Jettyâ along the Great Salt Lake in Utah has stirred an impassioned response from artists and others who fear that the project could endanger that massive artwork. The jetty, a 1,500-foot-long curlicue of salt crystals, rocks and mud jutting into the lake, was completed by Smithson in 1970, three years before he died in a plane crash. The State of Utah, which must approve any plan for drilling in the area, decided recently to extend a period for public comment on the proposal until Feb. 13. John Harja, who runs the stateâs public land policy coordinating office, said on Tuesday that the office had received 900 letters, e-mail messages and calls about the issue in the last several days. Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, issued a statement calling the jetty âa significant cultural siteâ and saying that the trust was âdeeply concerned about the potential harm that energy development could bringâ to it.
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As if shooting a loved one's ashes into space or pressing them into artificial diamonds were not sufficiently offbeat, relatives of the deceased now can have their ashes mixed into concrete to help form ocean habitats.
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Both of Washington&#39;s potential new governors have experienced the uncomfortable sensation of reading their own political obituaries.
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For Los Angeles and its residents, the debate over closing the trauma center at Martin Luther King/Drew Medical Center was heated, emotional and political.
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Despite the fact that the cause of Ol&#39; Dirty Bastard&#39;s death may not be known for several days, it seems that some of his survivors are already bracing for battle over his assets.
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Residents buried the dead as U.S. and Iraqi forces battled pockets of resistance in this former insurgent stronghold.
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The military community here has grown accustomed to burying its soldiers, but the funerals this week are taking an especially heavy toll.
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By Heather Civil, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Jun. 8--SANTA ROSA BEACH   -- The controversy over Gulf Cemetery has yet to be resolved.
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Amid reports that the facility will be closed, Bush hardliners and pragmatists wrestle over its future
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ALI JEGK, Arizona  - Members of a traditional Indian nation spanning the Arizona-Mexico border are complaining that work to put up a new barrier to secure the border has desecrated an ancient burial ground.
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Arguments over where to bury Yasser Arafat&#39;s body leave out opportunities to talk about the future of the Palestinians&#39; soul.
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Yasser Arafat remained in a coma on  Friday as a row brewed over where he would be buried and  questions loomed about who might succeed him.
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President Bush, visiting America&#039;s most hallowed military burial ground to &quot;honor this place where valor sleeps,&quot; said Monday the nation must persevere in the war against terrorists for the sake of those have already given their lives in this cause.
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Muslims planned to turn an old sod farm near Memphis into a cemetery, but angry neighbors protested, complaining the burial ground could become a staging ground for terrorists or spread disease from unembalmed bodies.
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As Palestinians prepared to bury the man who for nearly 40 years personified their elusive dream for a homeland, many displayed conflicting emotions over a leader they loved and revered for what he represented, but faulted for the failures he bequeathed them.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- As mourners laid her bullet-riddled body to rest yesterday, environmentalists and colleagues of slain missionary Dorothy Stang seesawed between fragile optimism and angry skepticism over a question they had hoped never to consider.