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...Israeli police on Sunday arrested eight members of the Denver-based cult Concerned Christians, who were believed to be planning acts of violence. But the Israeli police don't believe this is the last Doomsday cult they're going to see in the city this year -- in fact, they've created a special unit to deal with Millennium-related malfeasance. The psychiatric authorities too are expecting their own Y2K deluge -- they're anticipating a sharp increase in the "Jerusalem Syndrome," in which around 50 tourists a year are seized by the delusion that they're a reincarnated Biblical figure...
DIED. LEONARD RIESER, 76, physicist; in Lebanon, N.H. Rieser worked on the Manhattan Project and recently retired as chairman of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, where he was keeper of the Doomsday Clock, moving the minute hand to reflect the threat of nuclear peril...
...after reportedly informing him that "some son of a bitch on the staff has been saying bad stuff about my staff in the press, and I'm tired of it." Livingston's temper surfaced notoriously in a floor speech during the 1995 budget battle. "We will stay here until doomsday," he bellowed, arms flailing. Later he admitted that even his mother thought he looked like "a raving lunatic...
...return to the old ways makes this a time to "intervene in the fancy prognostications about life in the 21st century--predictions that are filled with celebratory notice or doomsday," she said...
Speaking of government spending, contrary to the doomsday scenarios that haunted us following the budget deficits of the Reagan and Bush years, as of last week, for the first time since 1969, the government will take in more money than it spends. Ross Perot's sky-is-falling rants about guv'ment irresponsibility of six years ago now seem almost cute--like a real-life Chicken Little...