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...DIEGO: Doctors have completed autopsies on nearly all of the 39 cult members who committed suicide in a Rancho Santa Fe mansion earlier this week. Tests confirm that they died primarily from lethal doses of the drug Phenobarbital. Officials say the families of 31 group members have been notified so far. Although the group's videotapes and website constitute one of the most elaborate suicide notes in history, the search for information about their activities and their reasons for choosing to die continues. Police have removed all of the computers from the house and turned them over...
...RANCHO SANTA FE, California: Perfection, as any website designer will tell you, is absolutely essential in HTML coding. Misplace a bracket, spell a command wrong, and the whole page could come crashing down. So when it came time to die, the 39 members of a mysterious San Diego cult went about it in the same precise manner they had conducted Higher Source, their web design business. The suicide plan was meticulously organized. Each member received a hand-written recipe with suicide instructions: take the package of pudding or apple sauce, stir in the drug phenobarbital and eat it, quickly drink...
...RANCHO SANTA FE, California: The Benedictine monks painstakingly hand-copied manuscripts so that their order could sustain itself self-sustaining revenue from within its walls. The Higher Source made web sites. In a sprawling, spotless mansion packed with bulk food and computer hardware, at least forty modern-day monks designed and built web sites for businesses on the outside, including the San Diego Polo Club, a movie company, and a British maker of airline parts. On Wednesday, in three neatly planned shifts, they died. The world saw Jonestown, felt Waco, and cried cult. And this time, a cult...
...state. "My dad has been pretty much on the same level for a number of months now." Physically, the former President, 86, remains active. He spends a few hours in his office most weekdays and sees occasional visitors. Accompanied by Secret Service agents and his nurse, Reagan strolls in Rancho Park or along the Santa Monica, California, beach. Last summer he still used his backyard pool...
DIED. PETE ROZELLE, 70, commissioner of the National Football League from 1960 to 1989; of brain cancer; in Rancho Santa Fe, California. Generally considered the best commissioner in any pro sport, Rozelle took over the N.F.L. when he was only 33 and there were 12 franchises, each valued at $1 million. Thanks to his leadership--he devised revenue sharing among owners and created the Super Bowl after merging with the rival American Football League--there were 28 teams when he retired, some valued at more than $100 million...