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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twenty-one females and 18 males, ranging from ages 26 to 72, took their lives using a combination of alcohol and barbiturates. The dead hailed from various states, occupations and ethnic backgrounds, yet each was dressed in black and had a buzz cut. Each died with a $5 bill and several quarters in their pockets, beside a suitcase packed with clothes for their voyage. Moreover, many of the males had been castrated well-before their deaths...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Heaven Help Us | 4/1/1997 | See Source »

...risen 47% while shares of No. 2, RJR Nabisco (Winston, Camel), have jumped 39%. Sure, the industry just won a slew of important court cases. But that's hardly news. Big Tobacco has been snuffing out liability claims in the courts for decades. What's new is a persistent buzz that some kind of deal is in the works to end tobacco litigation. Such a deal would unshackle tobacco companies from the ball-and-chain view that they might one day be wiped out by a hostile judge or jury. It would free investors to value the prodigious earning power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAY UP, PHILIP MORRIS! | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

Move 16 is when Deeper Blue pauses to "think." Finally, its human monitor announces, "F4." F4? An excited buzz sweeps the room. F4! Deeper Blue has advanced the knight's pawn two squares, loosening its kingside defense with an assumption of the superiority of its position that would surely be considered arrogant if a carbon-based life-form were making it. "This move was special," murmurs Joel Benjamin, a former U.S. champion and current Deep Blue consultant. The room nods in agreement. Deeper Blue is thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEEPER IN THOUGHT | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

TIME: Will the Prodigy open for you on your tour? They've got quite a buzz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: RAPPIN' WITH BONO | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...album's 16 songs, including Tourniquet (which is getting steady play on MTV), wallow in nightmarish, frequently X-rated scenarios of occultism, suicide, torture, greed and mindless celebrity worship. "I'm so all-American I'd sell you suicide," Manson snarls over the sound of jackhammering drums and the buzz-saw scream of guitars. Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, and his group have all adopted names of celebrity idols and serial killers. The keyboardist calls himself Madonna Wayne Gacy; the bassist, Twiggy Ramirez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: SATAN'S LITTLE HELPERS | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

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