Word: solarization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ANTONIO: An American astronomer drew a hushed, standing room only crowd to an American Astronomical Society conference room Wednesday when he announced the discovery of two new planets orbiting stars outside Earth's solar system. Geoffrey Marcy, a professor of physics and astronomy at San Francisco State University, told the gathering of 1300 scientists that at least one of the new orbs could have water. "That means possible conditions ideal for life," says TIME's Michael Lemonick. "That's a very significant discovery since we now have several examples of large planets orbiting stars like the sun." Lemonick says...
...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...
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...