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...Thriving Cult of Greed and Power." TIME's investigation of the Church of Scientology...
Techniques popular at All-Star squads have filtered into the tamer world of high school sideline cheer through camps, videos and the movie Bring It On, a cult favorite among high schoolers about cheerleading in California. But many schools prohibit the elaborate mounts, stunts, flying and dancing that All-Star squads work to perfect. And while the National Federation of State High School Associations annually updates its guidelines about safety, appropriate apparel and dance moves, it is up to communities to enforce them...
Before Sept. 11, there was March 20, 1995. On a sunny spring morning, five members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult entered the Tokyo subway and pierced plastic packs of liquefied sarin gas with their umbrella tips, leaving 12 people dead and thousands injured. Only two months before, more than 5,000 people were killed by an earthquake that shook the western port city of Kobe. "Some strange malaise, some bitter aftertaste lingers on," writes novelist Haruki Murakami in his account of the times, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche. "We crane our necks and look around...
...cult of the tailgater usually rears its pretentious head but once a year at Harvards anticipated showdown with the Yale football squad. But this year, lovers of Moet and Michelob previewed the tailgating scene at the championship showdown versus Penn. Though even undergraduate pre-game revelry usually takes on a snootier final club-tinge, there is definitely a generation gap in the tailgating experience. Graduates have their pick of top-shelf alcohol, gourmet spreads, and luxury SUVs while undergrads have to be a little bit more creative. Below is a taste of the Harvard tailgate...
...serious are any of these threats? Almost anyone with undergraduate training in biology can raise colonies of dangerous microbes. Delivering them is much harder, as the technologically savvy extremist Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo learned in the early 1990s when it tried to spread botulism in the streets of Tokyo before finally settling on sarin gas. Moreover, germ weapons have a tendency to boomerang, as gas attacks often did during World War I when winds suddenly shifted. Highly infectious agents also are difficult to handle, a risk underscored by at least one major anthrax accident in the Soviet biowarfare program that...