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Last year, Associate Professor of Pathology Joseph G. Sodroski found two other gate proteins that HIV uses to enter cells in the rest of the body--CCR5 and CXCR4...
...lessons there for Heaven's Gate? The religious impulse sometimes thrives on false sentiment, emotional need and cultural fluff. In its search for meaning, the mind is apt to go down some wrong paths and to mistake its own reflection for the face of God. Much of the time, those errors are nothing more than episodes of the human comedy. Occasionally they become something worse. This is what happened at Rancho Santa Fe, where foolish notions hardened into fatal certainties. In the arrival of Comet Hale-Bopp, the cult members saw a signal that their lives would end soon. There...
...thing we know for sure is that the inevitable movie version of the San Diego suicide cult won't be called Heaven's Gate--that title is taken. As for everything else in the world, most of us haven't a clue. We're agnostics, know-nothings. Certitude was once the American religion, but after Watergate and other scams, we realized that what we thought was certitude was only blind faith. At least, we think we realized that. Or maybe...
When we heard of the strange cyberdoctrines of the Heaven's Gate group last week, the easiest thing in the world to do was to mock them for their unapologetic embrace of UFOs, "Human Evolutionary Levels" and even a Star-Trekky Kingdom of Heaven--to mock them, in fact, for defying our belief as they embraced their own. Their very name, we could tell ourselves cosily (as we painted Easter eggs and watched outlandishly dressed icons waving golden, human-shaped statuettes), sounded like an X-Files version of a Californian health-food store. It mattered little that unlike the members...
Your article "Legal Tender," about political fund raising in the White House, was interesting but also disturbing [NATION, March 17]. It appears that instead of building a bridge to the 21st century, the Clinton-Gore team put up a Golden Gate to the Lincoln Bedroom. JACK ROOSA Gulfport, Mississippi...