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...another part of the alien-conscious nation, at Rancho Santa Fe, near San Diego, Calif., 39 disciples of the Heaven's Gate cult mixed phenobarbital, applesauce and vodka, slipped plastic bags over their heads and persuaded themselves that they were headed for a better life among the stars. Their suicide--the most lethal of the year's mass emotional activities--came in response to the appearance of the Hale-Bopp comet, an astronomical surprise that incited other public anxieties about the coming millennium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE YEAR EMOTIONS RULED | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

...Andy Grove huddled with a bunch of lawyers right now? After all, Intel has more of a monopoly than its cousins in Redmond - 90 percent of the planet's PCs have Intel inside; only 85 percent see Windows. Why is it Grove, not Gates, getting the glory? The simple answer is unchecked ambition - Grove was content to cash in his chips; Gates intends to own desktops, cable boxes and the Internet. It's this last aim where Gate has gone too far, according to the boys at Justice. Gates denies it, but the judge isn't convinced - and the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Weekend Review | 12/20/1997 | See Source »

Kent Pickard unlocks the gate to one of his cornfields--one that abuts Airborne Express's vast shipping complex. "I'm right in the middle of it," says Pickard, 52, wheeling his old pickup through the gate and down a dirt road that ends at an Airborne fence. "From 4:30 in the morning, the airplane takeoffs are constant. Sometimes it shakes the ground under my tractor. Sometimes I think the tractor is coming apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT ESCAPE | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

Harvard charged out of the gate on the legs of Hill, whose coast-to-coast layup in the opening minute gave the Crimson a 4-2 lead--one it never relinquished...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Cagers Crush Cadets | 12/3/1997 | See Source »

...RETHINK SPRINGFEST--Let's not repeat the "God-Street-Wine-gate" debacle. If we can't get a band that people have heard of, there's no reason to spend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOTE FOR U.C. PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT | 12/3/1997 | See Source »

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