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...blast, the grownups had pursued a remarkable will to die. Over and over they fiddled with three tanks of propane that were hooked to an electric burner and a timing device. As many as four times, they swallowed sedatives, then arranged themselves in a cross around a queen-size bed, only to rise in bleary frustration when the detonator fizzled. Finally, they blew themselves to kingdom come. For them that would be the star Sirius, in the constellation Canis Major, nine light-years from Quebec. According to the doctrines of the Solar Temple, they will reign there forever, weightless...
...still fighting. By last Friday, a week after the attack, Lenard had yet to regain full consciousness. While a parade of politicians and community leaders filed past his hospital bed to pay their respects, the rest of the city wrestled with feelings of profound disgust, anger and shame evoked by a crime with unusual symbolic weight. The suspects in the attack, Michael Kwidzinski, 19, Victor Jasas, 17, and Frank Caruso, 18, live in Bridgeport, a neighborhood near Chicago's old stockyards that has given the city five of its last eight mayors, including Richard M. Daley, who grew...
Students have already missed a large portion of the sunlight before they wake. But we must ask, who uses this sun? Whom does it benefit? The answer is of course that it falls most unproductively on the world while idealistic youths lay in bed...
...small wonder the U.S. government has scant success in selling democratic principles to foreign governments such as China [NATION, March 10]. The whole world watches as the President transforms the White House's Lincoln Bedroom into a high-perk bed-and-breakfast free-enterprise zone to raise campaign funds. If any foreign-government honcho wanted to play down the merits of democracy, all he would need to do is tell his people to sit in front of the TV during a U.S. presidential campaign and watch the democratic process degenerate into disgusting mudslinging. The worst part is imagining where...
...next "level" with their leader Do (Applewhite). TIME and CNN also obtained a two-minute color video shot by Richard Ford, aka Rio, when he discovered the bodies of his fellow cult members last week. Ford recorded the death scene of Applewhite, who lay on a large bed unlike the cots where his followers died. An illustration of an extraterrestrial stood nearby. The video is somewhat more gruesome than the portions of the sheriff's video shown on television. At least one cult member had blood flowing from the head, perhaps a reaction to the suicide drugs. Rio noted...