Word: solarity
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...measure of time is a convention. We decide when our day begins--half a solar period past the sun's zenith (not counting daylight savings time). And we decide when our year begins. It's our excitement at our own conventions that annually brings half a million of us to worship drunkenly the descent of a shining ball in Times Square...
...Vuarnet, best known today for his line of chic sunglasses. For Vuarnet fils--whose mother Edith, his woman companion Ute Verona and their daughter Tania, 6, accompanied him in death--the prerogatives of status had melted under the mystical thrall of a sect known as the Order of the Solar Temple...
Police pursued complaints of manipulation of wealthy cultists for their money by shadowy Solar Temple survivors. With the guru's demise, though, the decapitated order seemed likely to wither away. Vuarnet's family knew better. Recalling his brother's guilt at not having been "called" in 1994, Alain Vuarnet says Patrick "looked me straight in the eye and said, 'Alain, you are the one deluding yourself. You just don't understand.' " In view of the cult's still extensive assets and international following, authorities are trying harder than ever now to understand...
...SOLAR TEMPLE MASSACRE...
...members of the Order of the Solar Temple methodically shot 14 fellow cultists lying sedated and arranged in the shape of a star on the forest floor, then ignited the bodies before turning their revolvers on themselves. The charred corpses were discovered on Dec. 23 outside the village of St.-Pierre-de-Cherennes in southeastern France. The killings were a grisly replay of the murder-suicides that claimed the lives of 53 Solar Temple members in Switzerland and Quebec last year...