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Being on the cover of TIME or having yourself rendered in paraffin at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum of London could be considered a benchmark for fame and infamy. Appearing in both spots could be a benchmark for making the TIME 100. Since last April, TIME, in conjunction with CBS News, has been saluting this century's most influential men and women with the TIME 100, a series of special issues profiling 20 leaders in five categories...
...deal with this!'" And so Anderson is part of a yuppie-ish Y2K-readiness group that meets once a month to discuss risks and learn self-reliance skills. The four couples who take part are learning how to roll their own oats for cereal, shop for paraffin lamps--those don't give off smoke--and preserve fruit. French coffee presses, they have discovered, are perfect for sprouting seeds. If Martha Stewart ran a survivalist sect, it might be something like this...
Hart and a few other demonstrators emphasized the facts of the case, from bullet trajectories to paraffin stains, as the reasons why they believe there has been a cover...
...heritage last week when they "went kind of berserk" (according to one protest organizer) and threw a tantrum over the removal of paper items in their dining hall. Like latter day courtiers in 17th century France, the Eliotees banged demi-tasses of dining services-grade coffee and demanded their paraffin...
Just what made Andrei Sakharov tick? The Soviet Academy of Sciences' Brain Institute intends to find out. The mind that helped create the U.S.S.R.'s hydrogen bomb and spearheaded the Soviet dissident movement now lies cut into "blocks" and preserved in paraffin, awaiting examination by the institute's scientists...