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...recluses. The clan chose to meet with few people, mostly charity workers, from whom they had collected food baskets a couple of times a month since 1998. Michael had been unemployed since falling ill; no one else made a living; the water pump for their decrepit home near Lake Pend Oreille had broken down. The kids, Sheriff Phil Jarvis believes, subsisted on lake water and "lily-pad soup." But even JoAnn knew to seek out Coffelt on that May 12. After all, he is the county coroner and funeral director. All she did was drop the body off. Coffelt waited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Children's War | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...from Camembert cheese to cosmetics; they also let 1,000 bags of mail from France pile up in the post offices. Somewhat ghoulishly, the girls at a Melbourne high school sent an invitation in French to President Pompidou to attend their funerals "á une date uncertaine-cela dépend en vous." Yet another protest to Pompidou came from some 100,000 Peruvian women denouncing the eastward drift of radioactive fallout. The mayor of Hiroshima charged France with "blatant disregard for human dignity." Even Prince Philip of Britain joined in the din, saying that he would gladly carry a banner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NUCLEAR ARMS: Countdown at Mururoa Atoll | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

John G. S. Flym, attorney for Mann and the other Weathermen in the pend-ing conspiracy trial, said last night that Mann was subpoenaing Bowie and Lipset to testify about the nature of the CFIA's position at Harvard...

Author: By Shirley E. Wolman, | Title: SDS and Weathermen Hold Separate Protests | 11/26/1969 | See Source »

...beaten to deformity? How long before the bright lands are dead lands?" Every Californian can cite his own pet example of the slurban blight. In San Francisco, the famed waterfront was threatened by a new elevated ramp until a group of aroused citizens forced the state to sus pend construction. In Sacramento, highway builders propose to split the city in two with a throughway that will require the demolition of several of the city's most cherished historical buildings, which happen to stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Next: the Slurb | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

...major roadblock to the nation's private atomic power program was raised last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals. In a 2-to-1 opinion, the court ruled that the Atomic Energy Commission must sus pend a "provisional" construction permit for an $83 million, 100,000-kw. nuclear power plant near Monroe, Mich, because "it has not been positively established" that the plant can be operated safely. The AEC license to the Power Reactor De velopment Co. - a combine of Detroit Edison Co., 17 other utilities and seven manufacturing firms - was challenged by a group of unions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ENERGY: Roadblock to Progress | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

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