Word: haling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certificates in the top pockets of their shirts, making identifying the bodies easy. While the how seems clear, the why is not so easy. It appears that members may have simply believed that their time was up. They described on video their obsession with the arrival of the comet Hale-Bopp - to them, the signal to them that it was time to leave this world to head to what they called the Next Level. They believed that the way to get there was by shedding their physical selves in order to board a UFO trailing the comet...
GERALD FORD Ford may have had more advisers for his golf game than he did for the Middle East: Jack Nicklaus guided his swing, Hale Irwin helped him with irons, and Dave Stockton nursed his putting. But his golfing only seemed to reinforce his image as a big (clumsy) man carrying a little stick...
Speculation reached a fever pitch last November when Chuck Shramek, an amateur astronomer based in Houston, Texas, announced on a nationwide radio talk show that he had photographed a "Saturn-like object" that seemed to be following in Hale-Bopp's wake. Shramek's breathless claim elevated Hale-Bopp fantasies from supermarket tabloids to the mainstream press and generated thousands of posts to message boards and astronomy home pages on the Internet. One fast-spreading rumor had it that the object was an alien spacecraft four times the size of Earth...
...Hale was barraged with reporters' queries, and in an effort to calm the waters, he investigated Shramek's photograph and determined that the "object" in it was an ordinary eighth-magnitude star. After posting his conclusions on the Net, Hale became the target of a flood of hate E-mail, much of it accusing him of being part of a conspiracy to suppress the true nature of Hale-Bopp...
...Hale acknowledges that it was only natural for our ancestors to be apprehensive about the fiery apparitions in the night sky. But he is impatient with their modern counterparts, who should know better. "I ask readers to treat all these irresponsible reports with the disdain they deserve," he says, "and instead enjoy the beauty of the comet for its own sake...