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...they continued to preach with a passion, persuading followers to renounce their families, sex and drugs and to pool their money with promises of a voyage to salvation on a spaceship. A poster for an appearance at Canada College, in Redwood City, California, read, "If you have ever entertained the idea that there may be a real, physical level beyond the Earth's confines, you will want to attend this meeting." The auditorium was packed...
...REPORT, March 10] stated that humans share "99.9%" of the same genetic code. But two car keys can be 99.9% identical and yet one may start up a VW and the other a Mercedes. It's not the amount of difference, it's where the difference lies. ROB VERMEULEN Redwood City, California...
...independent operators agree there is more at stake than just money. With consolidation has come a level of depersonalization that family-owned funeral homes, for all their other alleged sins, have managed to resist. "It really shows that nothing is sacred," says Karen Leonard, executive director of California's Redwood Funeral Society (her E-mail name is CheapExit), who was Mitford's research associate. "You are just part of the machine. This is just another body. This is just another family. Sell, sell, sell...
...cause, he gets arrested. In June, Harrelson was nabbed for planting four hemp seeds in Kentucky to promote hemp's usefulness as a crop. Last week he hung from the Golden Gate Bridge with other environmentalists, snarling traffic and doing interviews by phone to protest the logging of a redwood grove in Northern California. "I just lately learned about climbing," the actor told the San Francisco Examiner. "I didn't get much sleep last night." Back on earth, he was arrested (again) and faces a $10,000 fine...
...firms in such volatile industries as high technology. The suits usually allege that a company "knew or should have known" that "adverse" developments would send its stock plummeting without warning. "Fundamentally, Proposition 211 is a Trojan horse for strike suits," charges Hill. Another chairman and CEO, Larry Ellison of Redwood Shores-based Oracle, brands the proposition "legal terrorism...