Fresh Water: Let Rivers Run Deep

A forceful band of activists fights to protect the world's waterways from being polluted and exploited

JOHN CRONIN AND ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. In Search of the Beauty And Mystery of Home

Since the plane of John F. Kennedy Jr. went down on July 16, observations about the Kennedys have mainly connected the family with calamity and grief. But the environmental work of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his partner, John Cronin, remind one that the Kennedys are more lastingly characterized by public service. In May I went out with Kennedy and Cronin on New York's revitalized Hudson River, a fluid monument to the devotion so many Kennedys have felt for the country.

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