Word: heavenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...Judge Hiller Zobel, when he reduced the verdict to manslaughter and ordered no more jail time for Woodward. Adding to the frustration was the memory of O.J. and the question, never settled, of whether this year's civil-court decision to take away his money compensated society or heaven for what most people believe was an act of bloody murder...
...which Pathfinder's greatly resemble, no-man's-land has always been America's fallback version of paradise--if not Eden, at least a new proving ground. So those Martian postcards may show nothing in particular, but for the imagination operating in forward thrust they are plausible glimpses of heaven...
...forum's First Amendment ombudsman. But when it comes to "the speech of the radical, the rascal, even the revolting, we become unsure." Oh, and a full one-third believe newspapers have too much freedom, and would stop them printing important government documents such as the Pentagon Papers. Heaven only knows what they think of new-media journalists...
...Jackal is Heaven-bound. "I was a good example for the revolution," he said. "I will join my comrades in paradise...