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They would convene in the central pavilion, and Jones would harangue them about "the beauty of dying." All would line up and be given a drink described as poison. They would take it, expecting to die. Then Jones would tell them the liquid was not poisonous; they had passed his "loyalty test." But if ever the colony were threatened from without, he told them, "revolutionary suicide" would be real and it would dramatize their dedication to their unique calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightmare in Jonestown | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the lethal drinking continued. Cultists filled their cups from a metal vat on a table at the center of the pavilion, then wandered off to die, often in family groups, their arms wrapped around one another. The tranquilizers in the liquid concocted by the temple's doctor, Larry Schacht, 30, may have dulled their senses; it took about five minutes for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightmare in Jonestown | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Glaucoma is a disease in which increased pressure within the liquid portion of the eye results in visual impairment...

Author: By Frank D. Chaiken, | Title: Clinic Seeks Medical Use Of Marijuana | 12/2/1978 | See Source »

...doctor has been buzzing around federal agencies, urging them to take action on health issues. These range from banning cancer-causing chemicals from food supplies and the workplace to removing hazardous drugs from the market and warning the public about the dangers of unnecessary surgery, excessive X rays and liquid protein diets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Valuable Gadfly | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...worked on a volunteer basis until 1946 when he began to keep official NCAA statistics of Crimson football. By that time,' though, he had become a researcher in ultra-low temperature physics at MIT. Cavileer worked on a team that developed a machine which produces liquid helium, an important breakthrough in the field...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Statistician Bob Cavileer | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

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