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...well-choreographed departure, made more astonishing by the rich trail of video and Internet information the victims left behind. But the largest mass suicide in U.S. history has blasted the doors wide open onto a considerably less tidy world--a dense and jumbled universe of UFOs and extraterrestrials careening smack into unusual astronomical happenings, apocalyptic Christian heresies and end-is-nigh paranoia. Do and Ti, or Bo and Peep, or the Two, as Applewhite and his former partner Bonnie Lu Trusdale Nettles were known, plucked bits of this and pieces of that doctrine like birds building a nest, intertwining...
...airlines also asked for--and got--huge concessions from their employees to help them through hard times. But after all that effort, and just when they should be reaching that nice, cushiony air at 31,000 ft. or so, the industry is running smack into turbulence in the form of employees who are insisting on a share of the good fortune. The employees are also determined to protect themselves, as American's pilots are, from outsourcing and other forms of cost management. The result is escalating tension in an industry not known for touchy-feely labor relations to begin with...
...Girl Scouts of Mount Laurel, New Jersey, are working on a new badge: "hard bargaining." Smack in the middle of the cookie-selling season, 27 area troops demanded a bigger commission from the South Jersey Pines council, which oversees Mount Laurel and six other area troops. When HQ rejected their request, the troops retaliated with a slowdown, vowing to peddle only the 12-box minimum. "This is the first I've heard of anything like this," says Marianne Ilaw, spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts of America, which has been selling cookies annually for 69 years...
...whole culture of technology-loving--and in some cases, perhaps, technology-worshipping--futurists, such words smack of 1st millennium thinking in the face of 3rd millennium faith. They tend to see in the Internet something larger than themselves, an entity so much greater than the sum of its parts as to inspire awe and wonder. "People see the Net as a new metaphor for God," says Sherry Turkel, a professor of the sociology of science at M.I.T. The Internet, she says, exists as a world of its own, distinct from earthly reality, crafted by humans but now growing...
...society, at some point in my life, I'll be confronted with these problems," said Hazel-Ann F. Mayers, a first-year law student. "Everyone will be forced to face them, but the only difference is whether you challenge them voluntarily or if you wait for them to smack you in the face...