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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cult built a series of munitions factories within its complex at the foot of Mount Fuji. Aum researchers were trying to develop germ weapons -- including the Ebola virus -- and an assembly line was about to produce automatic rifles. Behind one building's false walls was a $700,000 lab able to turn out 60 to 80 kg a month of the nerve gas sarin -- enough to kill 6 million to 8 million people. One plan called for releasing the sarin over Tokyo from 1.65-m-long remote-controlled helicopters. Asahara would follow up the attack by overpowering the Japanese Self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOKO ASAHARA: ENGINEER OF DOOM | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

...sexual behavior. One piece of evidence is the action of the drug Prozac, which relieves depression by lifting serotonin levels in the brain. At the same time, though, the serotonin boost tends to dampen sexual desire. In contrast, low serotonin levels can produce heightened sexual activity, at least in lab animals. In experiments done in the U.S. and Italy, scientists used drugs and special diets to suppress serotonin in rats, mice, cats and rabbits. The result was increased sex drive and, sometimes, homosexual couplings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEARCH FOR A GAY GENE | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

...When I think back on college, I'll probably think of lab and rowing," says senior Olympic hopeful Ollie Rando...

Author: By Michael M. Luo, | Title: Students Shoot For Olympics | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...lab" part of Rando's college experience garnered him a perfect score on his MCATs. The score helped him get accepted at Stanford University's M.D.-Ph.D. program where Rando hopes he will build the foundation for a successful career in research...

Author: By Michael M. Luo, | Title: Students Shoot For Olympics | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...have a 7:30 a.m. lab, where are yougoing to find a day care center?" she says. "Ifyou have a course at 2:30 and your kid's got arecital, you can't take a half...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Tenure, Child Care Plague Female Professors Who Work to Balance Career Demands, Family Concerns | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

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