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ANNABEL Catt's parents yesterday said their daughter, who died after apparently taking ecstasy at the Good Vibrations Festival, was a "beautiful girl who made a mistake". "She wasn't a druggie," Alison Catt said with tears in her eyes. "If it can happen to her, it can happen to anyone. She was just a beautiful girl having fun and made a mistake. "Everybody has said she would be the last person in the world you'd expect this to happen to and we'd be the last family you'd expect it to happen to."

<p>When the results of a widely publicized study last year showed that ecstasy could cause Parkinson's-like brain damage, it seemed unlikely that the drug would ever be considered a viable form of therapy.</p> <p>The drug, a staple among teen ravers, was considered by experts to be too dangerous to warrant further study.</p>

<p>Burning Man, the wild counterculture festival held annually in one of the nation's most remote areas, is coming to cities across America.</p> <p>It's time to try to influence the very culture against which this year's record 30,500 Burning Man participants rebelled, the phenomenon's founder and resident visionary said in an interview.</p>

Camera's first catch gets felony drug charge As Marcus D. Jackson smoked dope in a blue Chevy Caprice, he had no idea anyone was watching, police say. But about a block away, officers were monitoring his every move on a surveillance camera set up at Augusta and Pulaski to target crimes both serious and minor that bring down the neighborhood's quality of life. When they swooped in and arrested Jackson, the officers allegedly found $20 worth of pot and Ecstasy, a so-called "club drug," valued at $60. The 1:30 a.m. Saturday bust was the first one for Operation Disruption, which...