Word: ranchos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case you were blissly biking across Europe last week or adrift on a Carnival cruise through the Caribbean, a mass suicide took place Wednesday in a mansion in posh Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., a San Diego suburb...
Actress Nichelle Nichols, whose brother Thomas ended his life at Rancho Santa Fe at the age of 59, made the case for respect and tolerance eloquently: "My brother was highly intelligent and a beautifully gentle man," she told CNN. "He made his choices and we respect those choices." With Hale-Bopp streaking through the sky, bound for realms nearly unfathomable to the human mind, let us hope society respects the spiritual choices we make for ourselves as well...
...onslaught of pop psychology that has followed the grim discoveries at Rancho Santa Fe, so-called mind control experts have speculated that the fault somehow lay in the tech world, that something about the Web explained Heaven's Gate and the isolation of its members from the cushioning norms of society. Not true. The cult had been around for 22 years, and had seen better days. Most of its members were Web novices at best. Yet in some ways, the Web was made for groups like this. For it is not the culture of the Internet, but its utility...
...RANCHO SANTA FE, California: Seeking to unravel the events leading to the group suicide and to understand the reasons that the members of Heaven's Gate came together, attention has turned to the cult's leader, Marshall Herff Applewhite. The son of a Presbyterian minister, Applewhite was leading an apparently unremarkable life as a highly talented baritone, a husband, father of two, and a professor of music at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. In the early 1970's, Applewhite was granted a leave of absence from the university to deal with emotional problems. According to The Washington Post...
...onslaught of pop psychology that has followed the grim discoveries at Rancho Santa Fe, so-called mind control experts have speculated that the fault somehow lay in the tech world, that something about the Web explained Heaven's Gate and the isolation of its members from the cushioning norms of society. Not true. The cult had been around for 22 years, and had seen better days. Most of its members were Web novices at best. Yet in some ways, the Web was made for groups like this. For it is not the culture of the Internet, but its utility...