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...birds lived. And day after day investigators raided the headquarters and hideaways of the suspect religious cult. Day after day they emerged with ton after ton of chemicals--sodium cyanide, sodium fluoride, phosphorus trichloride, isopropyl alcohol, acetonitrile--some benign, but others deadly, and still others that if mixed together might create something deadlier still. Enough to kill 4.2 million people, guessed one newspaper; another topped it with an estimate of 10 million. Japanese television viewers watched, mesmerized, as the police stormed the redoubts of the sect, looking for evidence that might link the hoard to 10 horrible deaths that...
...other hand, if democratization in Russia is successful, the NATO alliance will eventually expand through the former republics of the Soviet Union and dissolve into a relatively benign, functionally impotent collective security framework...
...into perspective: 20 months ago, doctors told him that a brain tumor would probably kill him in three to six weeks. "You want to do a little more," he says of his outlook after the operation, in which the tumor was removed and found to be benign. "Taking on a presidential run is a very big step ... But I really want to use these days in as meaningful...
John is the sum of what he has learned and, of course, borrowed. On the new album you'll hear echoes of A Whiter Shade of Pale in the powerful ballad Man; a hint of mid-period Beatles in the benign Latitude and the jaunty Please; a great big blast of the Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil in the infectious, wondrously bleak Pain ("My name is pain/ You belong to me/ You're all I ever wanted/ I'm all you'll ever be"). But hey, 90% of everything is theft. John built these songs on solid, familiar...
...these seemingly benign cutbacks could change air travel for everyone. The American Society of Travel Agents said in a preliminary estimate that as many as 10,000 of its 25,000 members could be put out of business. For consumers, the choice is paying for services they have long taken for granted or buying their tickets directly from airlines or through computerized reservation systems. But dealing with the airlines could leave passengers at their mercy, with a narrow range of information. "Agents give fares and schedules for all the carriers," says Michelle Melroy Rafati of Melroy Travel in Salt Lake...