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...history; no one would argue that it doesn't trump lizard races. And so the town is gearing up, not entirely wholeheartedly, for what it is calling Roswell UFO Encounter '97, a celebration that will include a flying-saucer Soap Box Derby, films, symposiums (speakers include Erich von Daniken, author of Chariots of the Gods?) and what an organizer describes as "a UFO belly dancer." Crowds of upwards of 100,000 are hoped...
...extraterrestrials than it chooses to let on. But those numbers don't quite capture Roswell's current hot-button status. "Five years ago, if you made an offhand reference to Roswell, nobody would know what you meant. Now everybody does." So says Kevin Randle, a UFOlogist who, as co-author of the seminal UFO Crash at Roswell and its follow-up, The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell, is one of the Incident's heartiest champions. His efforts achieved a not entirely positive validation on Dec. 1, 1995, when President Bill Clinton, on a state visit to Ireland, said...
...strictly terrestrial is obviously engineered--it's a cannier brand of fundamentalism. The appearance of skeptical articles in a national magazine like this one could be part of a disinformation campaign to distract letter-to-the-editor-writing UFOlogists from more fruitful pursuits. For all you know, this author may be a member of an ultra-top-secret National Security Council committee with a terribly spooky acronym...
...protracted fight for ITT (1996 sales: $6.6 billion) is a throwback to the corporate wars of the 1980s. "It is very troubling that he didn't put the hotel properties up for bidding," says Mark Sirower, a professor of corporate strategies at N.Y.U.'s Stern School of Business and author of The Synergy Trap: How Companies Lose the Acquisition Game. "He's supposed to maximize the value of these assets...
These aren't the usual dog-bites-man stories. They are signs of a growing epidemic. According to Dr. Jeffrey Sacks, an epidemiologist with the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and author of a report released three weeks ago on the problem, dog attacks eclipse measles, mumps and whooping cough combined as a health threat to children. The number of dog bites that caused people to seek medical care increased from 585,000 in 1986 to 800,000 in 1994, a 37% jump during a period in which the dog population rose less than 2%, to 55.8 million...