Word: experts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cult experts warn that the public should not be taken in by the cheerful departures, nor by the notion that it was a small number of people exercising their own free will. "I don't consider it suicide. I consider it murder," says Janja Lalich, a cult expert who has been monitoring Heaven's Gate since 1994, when several distraught parents contacted her with their worries about their missing children. "[Applewhite] controlled it, he called the shots. These people were pawns in his personal fantasy." But Marshall Herff Applewhite has died with his followers. And they seemed so happy...
...trade secrets," and Gallo sued his own brother to prevent him from using the family name on a line of cheeses. "It's rare that you have the right combination of ego, money and enough at stake so that neither side is willing to compromise," says San Francisco trademark expert Melville Owen. "I don't think we'll see this kind of case again for 10 or 20 years...
Just after midnight copy expert Michael Poller switches from the classical and easy-listening favorites to what he calls the "more hard core" head-bangers of Offspring and Bush...
...infant twin boys when, in 1963, his penis was damaged beyond repair by a circumcision that went awry. After seeking expert advice at Johns Hopkins Medical School, the parents decided that the child's best shot at a normal life was as an anatomically correct woman. The baby was castrated, and surgeons fashioned a kind of vagina out of the remaining tissue. When "she" grew older, hormone treatments would complete the transformation from boy to girl...
Following this second set of sex-change procedures, John's new doctors advised the family to move to a new town and another school and start over. This time, however, John's parents rejected the expert advice. People would find out anyway, they reasoned. It was better to stay put and be open about what had happened. Their strategy seems to have worked. After a brief transition, John was accepted by his peers in a way that Joan never was. Once, when John first began dating, he confessed to a would-be girlfriend that he was insecure about his penis...