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...Starship Hale-Bopp. In 1944 the court ruled that the free exercise of religion "embraces the right to maintain theories of life and of death and of the hereafter which are rank heresy to followers of the orthodox faiths." By that definition, just about anything goes. In the Encyclopedia of American Religions, J. Gordon Melton lists more than 2,100 religions. Herewith, a few of the more unorthodox ones--all of which, by the way, are tax exempt...
DIED. JACK KENT COOKE, 84, imperious business magnate and colorful owner of the Washington Redskins football team; in Washington. A high school dropout who began as an encyclopedia salesman, Cooke built what may be a billion-dollar fortune, freewheeling his way through media properties, sports franchises and real estate. In 1971 he pioneered the closed-circuit mega-sportscast by financing the first Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier match. Fans and foes relished reading about his four tabloid-tale marriages. Approached for a book on the world's five greatest salesmen, Cooke replied, "I am not one of five anything...
Gates' current projects include authoring the Encyclopedia Africana, a project first envisioned by DuBois himself. Next year he will work on a series for the BBC on the "Seven Wonders of the African World...
...says, "This group is completely different. These people rather calmly followed suicide as their exit, in a very positive way, to a higher level of existence. They define death not as the enemy of life but as life itself." United Methodist minister J. Gordon Melton, editor of the authoritative Encyclopedia of American Religions, agrees. "In this case they had a positive motive, a great place to go to," he says. "So why hang around here...
...care of basketball star Magic Johnson. Ho does not seem to have aged at all in 15 years. I've met many talented and smart physicians in my professional life--but none brighter than he. He is the only person I know who deserves to be called a human encyclopedia. TERRENCE K. TRAPP, M.D. Salinas, California...