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...accounts by several persons directly involved. This particular article is anything but scrupulous in getting at the facts. Superficial journalism is worse than no journalism, and the article in question is a case in point. Though it seems doubtful that TM would lead to a debacle such as the Branch Davidian conflagration in Waco, Texas last summer, the slow disintegration of ego and self-esteem occasioned by the mind control of more "peaceable" cults can prove to be a living hell to those under its control...
...uncovered two more cases, and after local health authorities ruled out severe flu and pneumonic plague -- the latter is endemic to the Southwest, and a few cases show up every year -- they turned to the CDC for help. Recalls Dr. C.J. Peters, chief of the CDC's Special Pathogens Branch: "It didn't fit the pattern of anything we'd seen, and all we could figure is that it was something brand...
...Though drafted into a paramilitary corps, the teenage Joseph saw no combat because of a badly infected finger. He never learned to fire a gun, and his weapons were never loaded -- even when he performed guard duty in a BMW plant. But there he saw laborers conscripted from a branch of the Dachau concentration camp. He also remembers seeing Hungarian Jews being shipped to their death. "The abyss of Hitlerism could not be overlooked," he said. The depredations of the officially atheistic regime led to his conviction that religion was crucial to civilization. "Only the Christian faith had the possibility...
...tunnels are not connected to every building at Harvard, but they serve virtually each one either through the walk-in tunnels or through an underground conduit, which are smaller branch pipe systems...
...America now encompasses 700 to 800 "nonconventional" denominations, according to J. Gordon Melton, who monitors the proliferation for his Encyclopedia of American Religions. Half of them are imported variants of standard world religions, mostly Asian; the other half a creative and chaotic mix of U.S.-born creeds -- everything from Branch Davidians to New Agers. In the future, says sociologist Wade Clark Roof, "clearly the bounds of religious pluralism will push further and further out, and that's very American...