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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is Charles Dorsey, dead at 27; Elbert O'Neal, 24; Aron Buckles, 21; Derrell Ellis, 16; Laquanda Edwards, 15; Laketa Crosby Rodgers, 9; and Dantrell Davis, the youngest, shot to death at 7. Tucked away at home, Brother Bill has a black leather attache case packed with more than 100 obituaries of these, the young and the dead, now gone from his flock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Line Of Fire | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...tithe. Most churches take in the greater part of their income through donations. Very few, however, impose a compulsory 10% income tax on their members. Tithes are collected locally, with much of the money passed on informally to local lay leaders at Sunday services. "By Monday," says Elbert Peck, editor of Sunstone, an independent Mormon magazine, the church authorities in Salt Lake City "know every cent that's been collected and have made sure the money is deposited in banks." There is a lot to deposit. Last year $5.2 billion in tithes flowed into Salt Lake City, $4.9 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KINGDOM COME | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

...DIED. ELBERT TUTTLE, 98, former chief judge of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals whose unflinching, pivotal civil rights rulings in the 1960s helped dismantle Southern segregation; in Atlanta. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 8, 1996 | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

Working so closely with the bodies reminds students that everyone dies eventually, says Elbert Huang. "It makes you think about becoming older. It's all about mortality, death, dying, getting sick...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Gross Anatomy at Harvard Medical School: | 11/7/1992 | See Source »

...Elbert Huang says that the cadaver's smooth hands indicate that the man may have spent much of his life sitting behind a desk: "I had visions of him being an executive," he says...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Gross Anatomy at Harvard Medical School: | 11/7/1992 | See Source »

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