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...Jesus, Elijah and Moses in his former lives. The spacecraft is imminently expected. It will carry believers to an enigmatic "garden" where they will get "energy" from their coequal, the King of Kings, alias Chief of Chiefs, the god who created Planet Earth. Believers will live eternally in hairless, toothless bodies that are free of disease and decay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WITH BO AND PEEP, A CHORE EVERY 12 BEEPS | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

Unlike federal campaign laws, however, which are fuzzy in their application and relatively toothless in their remedies, the Teamster election rules are quite clear: evidence of illegal contributions that might have been decisive in an election requires a rerun. Although Carey beat Hoffa by a razor-thin margin and the Arnold contributions may have financed a crucial last-minute mailing, labor experts suspect that the government, which spent as much as $30 million on the closely monitored election, may be reluctant to act on these charges. Which would leave the Teamsters, along with the American taxpayers, mired in business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DONORGATE IN THE TEAMSTERS | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...should this be a toothless resolution?," he said. "If we believe in this, we should be willing to stand up for it and spend a few bucks...

Author: By Peggy S. Chen, | Title: Coffey Resigns Unexpectedly | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

There was nothing modest about the beast named Quetzalcoatlus. This winged creature--the largest flying machine nature ever constructed--was the size of a small airplane. It was nearly 20 ft. long; its wings stretched 40 ft. across; and it boasted a toothless, 6-ft.-long beak that tapered to the width of chopsticks. What on earth, scientists have long wondered, did such a big animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AGE OF PTEROSAURS | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...years earlier than his supposed birth date. The Jewish convert to right-wing Catholicism, Mary finds, was never accepted as anything but a Jew by his wife's Irish Catholic family. Most pathetically, perhaps, the father remembered as young, dashing and handsome--her Jimmy Stewart, the daughter says--is toothless, potbellied and old in the snapshots she digs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: DAD REVISITED | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

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