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PALO ALTO, Calif.--Just before 2:00 a.m. EST on Saturday night, Buffy Clifford was flooded with phone calls, and they have not stopped coming in--neither have the faxes, the e-mails or the interview requests...
When Werner Erhard (born John Paul Rosenberg) founded Erhard Seminars Training, Inc. in 1971, the former used-car salesman from Philadelphia had a hook. Born of the theater-of-the-absurd atmosphere of the late 1960s, est (Latin for "it is") promised to help people get "it," whatever "it" was. Erhard's 60-hour seminars were strenuous ordeals, complete with "body catchers" and barf bags for the weak of mind and stomach. Trainers applauded bladder control and cursed those who didn't get it. Still, Erhard and his message proved popular, even winning celebrity advocates. Then, after two decades...
Unlike Erhard, est is still around--sort of. In 1991, before he left the U.S., Erhard sold the "technology" behind his seminars to his employees, who formed a new company called the Landmark Education Corp., with Erhard's brother Harry Rosenberg at the helm. Rosenberg admits that Erhard was in Toronto briefly last June for a family reunion, but will not elaborate: "I'm not my brother's keeper. I'm not his spokesman...
...Asteroid 1997 XF11 -- hardly a name to set the pulse racing -- will pass within 30,000 miles of us at 1:30 p.m. EST, Thursday, October 26, 2028 (set your watches now). Chances are it'll whizz past and give Europe -- then in darkness -- a pretty light show. "It would actually be a rather nice thing to see," says Dr. Brian Marsden of the International Astronomical Union. His colleagues aren't so sure. "This is the most dangerous one we've found so far," fretted Jack Hills of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. "It scares me, it really does...
...This came at us late, and it was a good opportunity for us," New Jersey coach John Calipari said of the Seikaly deal, which wasn't called into the league office until 15 minutes prior to the 6 p.m. EST deadline...