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...Monday, Guillen finally came to his senses and admitted that the Raelian sect might just be putting on “an elaborate hoax” in claiming to have produced a cloned baby. However, this admission came too late. Guillen’s shameless boosterism of so frightening a story over the past few weeks has embarrassed both journalists and scientists. He presided over a circus featuring the worst of both professions—a self-aggrandizing scientist playing God and a journalist who was not content to report the news, and instead decided to make it. In other...
Saturday morning, Clonaid, a company founded by a religious group called Raelians, announced the birth of a second "cloned" baby, this time in Europe. The news comes just days after the sect's first claim of a successful clone, and has sparked worldwide skepticism - and intense curiosity: who are the Raelians and what do they believe? TIME's Anne Berryman spoke to Raelian Damien Marsic, a Frenchman now living...
...when it occurred it may have been because that brother was "known" in his own right, as the biblical Jesus was to his circle. Privately, Lemaire adds that the number of James/Joseph/Jesus families who utilized an ossuary is perhaps further reduced when one eliminates those belonging to the Sadducee sect, which did not believe in bodily resurrection and would have been less likely to preserve bones. (Others disagree: the high priest Caiaphas was a Sadducee, and his ossuary turned up in 1990.) One might also subtract the trios who used uninscribed ossuaries, and those whose survivors could afford no ossuary...
...Waco was nothin' compared to Colorado City," an antipolygamy activist says, while the Branch Davidian compound burns. Independent gubernatorial candidate Richard Mahoney suggests Republican Matt Salmon cannot crack down on the town's polygamist sect because he is Mormon...
...abuse of psychiatry to detain and institutionalize its political opponents at least equals and probably surpasses similar practices in the former Soviet Union, the report said. After declining from a peak in the 1960s, political psychiatry has been revived as a result of the crackdown on the Falun Gong sect. A Hong Kong court found 16 Falun Gong followers guilty of causing a public obstruction by demonstrating outside China's main office in the territory. INDONESIA Democratic Reform The world's most populous Muslim state abolished an electoral system that let President Suharto hold power for 32 years. The People...