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Imported sects like the Unification Church have seen an opening there. Homegrown groups have also sprung up. One surrounds a would-be messiah named Vissarion. With his flowing dark hair, wispy beard and a sing-song voice full of aphorisms, he has managed to attract about 5,000 followers to his City of the Sun. Naturally it's in Siberia, near the isolated town of Minusinsk. According to reports in the Russian press, Vissarion is a former traffic cop who was fired for drinking. In his public appearances, he speaks of "the coming end" and instructs believers that suicide...
Haber, in part because of her research on the history of food, was named as one of eight 1997 inductees into the Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America by the James Beard Foundation...
...Beard Foundation recognized Haber for building "a rich collection of culinary materials and for supporting the growth and development of food history as an academic subject," according to a press release issued by the Foundation...
After decades of believing, antitobacco forces finally found their Santa Claus. Sure enough, he's short, plump and round, sports a silver beard and grins impishly. But his name isn't Santa Claus, it's Bennett LeBow...
...quick to establish his background. He currently lives in Seattle with his wife Carrie and his first son. He first encountered the writing life as a journalist with a specialty in food and travel. His penchant for history, however, soon took over, and he wrote two nonfiction books: James Beard: A Biography and River of the West. Since publishing In the Deep Midwinter, Clark has finished another book with the working title Mr. White's Confusion and is researching for his next project, a memoir and genealogy of his family...