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...knows more about the Jonestown massacre than journalist Tim Reiterman. He began investigating Reverend Jim Jones, the twisted leader of the Peoples Temple cult, for the San Francisco Chronicle 18 months before Jones burst on the world's stage 30 years ago. Reiterman's articles caught the attention of Congressman Leo Ryan, who was concerned about constituents who had joined the group. Reiterman was one of a handful of journalists who accompanied the Congressman on a fact-finding mission to Jonestown, Guyana. On November 18, 1978, after meeting with Jones and his followers, their small party was ambushed by Peoples...
...Sony have seen profits dive. Royal Bank of Scotland Japan chief economist Junko Nishioka says that over the past two months, she has grown increasingly pessimistic. She sees Japan recording at least two years of negative growth, the first time that has happened since the property and banking bubbles burst in the late 1980s, leading to Japan's so-called Lost Decade. With weak export and domestic demand, she says, there is "no positive driver in the Japanese economy, if you think about the two-year horizon...
Before last season, it was well accepted that the Harvard women’s hockey team would be good. But when the Crimson burst out of the gates with an 11-game winning streak and took the top spot in the national rankings, no one saw it coming.The beginning of this year has not been as kind to No. 4 Harvard, but it has been equally unexpected. The Crimson was swept by ECAC foes Clarkson and No. 8 St. Lawrence on a two-game road trip this weekend. Harvard (3-2-1, 3-2-1 ECAC) opened the season...
...After the busboy had come and gone with a Herculean load of dishes, our waitress returned ready to give us our check. Now, the two shabu dinners included dessert, and it seems we would have missed out on it entirely had we not reminded her. All four of us burst out laughing when she came back with two slices of steamed white bread and a dish of green custard that precisely matched the color of the plate. Bizarre though it was, the dish was the best part of the meal. Who knew that Wonderbread would be such a great foil...
...such as gum disease. So, the more active the inflammatory response, the greater the chance of ruptured plaques and heart attack. In people with elevated CRP, that means the danger lies not so much in the number of plaques (measured by cholesterol) but in how likely they are to burst (measured...