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...power to persuade 38 followers to abandon their lives and families and commit suicide in the hope of leaving the earth aboard a spaceship, then maybe it is time for all of us to find our own comet and get as far away from this planet as possible. ALEX HOEFINGER Amherst, Massachusetts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 28, 1997 | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...Heaven's Gate Website. There I discovered some of the most mind-numbing material I have ever read. It amounted to a 96-page suicide note. I don't believe the approach of the millennium is going to have a profound effect on the universe or the planet. But in that strange universe that is the human mind, different laws apply. Anything is possible. MATT BUTTS St. Louis Park, Minnesota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 28, 1997 | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...world is frozen over. More to the point, the bergs are small, rising just 300 to 600 ft. above the surrounding ice. Since only 10% of an iceberg shows above the water, that means these measure a mile or so from top to bottom--and so, therefore, does the planet-wide ice crust from which they came. On the scale of a 2,000-mile-wide moon, that's not much of a crust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIFE IN A DEEP FREEZE? | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

...Everett, director of bands at Harvard, was honored at various points in the concert for his 25-year-long dedication to the Jazz Band. Everett received, among other things, an engraved dish from the OFA, a letter from jazz trombonist J.J. Johnson affectionately describing him as being "from another planet" and heartfelt thanks and appreciation from band alumni...

Author: By Stephane F. Ryder, | Title: A Snazzy Silver Anniversary | 4/17/1997 | See Source »

...competed with Muppets and dinosaurs for space on my fledgling bookshelf. Back then a trip to the Hayden Planetarium in New York City was a special treat, and a morning of cartoons would not be complete without the extraterrestrial antics of the Jetsons. I knew the position of each planet relative to the sun in addition to the names of all the early astronauts. The capstone of my childhood space career occurred one day in kindergarten, when Mrs. Isidore brought in a transistor radio so we could listen as the first space shuttle ascended into orbit...

Author: By Gabriel B. Eber, | Title: The Naked Comet | 4/12/1997 | See Source »

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