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...Tokyo subway gas attack was just a rehearsal for a planned aerial bombardment of Tokyo with deadly liquid sarin, the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper reports. According to the paper, a notebook kept by Kiyohide Hayakawa, the Aum Shinrikyo cult's No. 2 leader, details plans to destroy Japan's leadership in a series of simultaneous guerrilla raids starting as early as next November. According to Ikuo Hayashi, another cult leader, the cult hoped to set up an "Aum Kingdom" by killing the country's top officials. The new disclosures add more fuel to speculation that cult guru Shoko Asahara was planning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUM PLOTTED MASSIVE TOKYO ATTACK BY AIR | 5/23/1995 | See Source »

...conclusion contained in their preamble "We believe that homosexuality is bad for society, that it can harm even those who might otherwise not seem affected by it. More importantly, we think it is bad for the individual; submitting to the homosexual 'lifestlye' [Why is this in scare quotes?] can destroy individuals emotionally, physically, and spiritually...

Author: By Bruche L. Gottlieb, | Title: Truth in Advertising? | 5/22/1995 | See Source »

...Minnesota, Najarian focused on kidney transplants, struggling to improve the dismal success rate. Early on, only a third of patients survived more than three years. They were dying, Najarian knew, mainly because of tissue rejection. Their immune systems targeted transplanted organs as foreign and marshaled white blood cells to destroy the invaders. But Najarian saw a solution. With a colleague, he worked out a method for purifying a new drug called antilymphocyte globulin, or ALG, a potent cocktail of antibodies capable of countering the lethal reaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONCE A HERO | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

...cunning adventurer--beat the Cyclops, overcame the temptations of female goddesses and survived the wrath of Poseidon. Yet even mighty Odysseus had to tie himself to the mast of his ship in order to resist the alluring songs of the Sirens, a band of lyrical mermaids who sought to destroy...

Author: By Kathrine A. Meyers, | Title: HARVARD'S LITTLE MERMAID: A MODERN-DAY ODYSSEY | 5/10/1995 | See Source »

...must consider how we use words, becausethey can be at least as dangerous as science," hesaid, "One can use anything for good or ill. Youcan use fire to warm people, or you can use fireto destroy their homes...

Author: By Rachel C. Telegen, | Title: Herschbach Hosts TV Special on Nobel Prize | 4/29/1995 | See Source »

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