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Rajneesh preached free love (and free sex), and by all accounts he and his followers practiced what he preached. The spiritual needs fulfilled, Rajneesh catered to the weaknesses of the flesh as well...

Author: By Daniel P. Oran, | Title: Back Again | 12/9/1985 | See Source »

...duplicating the human hand, Hollerbach says, all the myriad capabilities of flesh must be reproduced. Not only the ability to grasp, but also the ability to sense mass, configuration, texture, curvature, and temperature of various objects must be instilled in the machine. Hollerbach says that, if successful, his invention will be able to do all these and more, and will, in addition, have the same degree of mobility as a real hand...

Author: By David Cook, | Title: MIT: Making Computers Smarter Than Humans | 12/7/1985 | See Source »

...retrieving the material, intelligence experts can flesh out how bits and pieces of U.S. secrets are evaluated and used by even a friendly country, the official said...

Author: By From WIRE Services, | Title: Israel Took Secret Info on Arabs | 12/5/1985 | See Source »

...subjects talk about death, murder, suicide in the thousands; they describe the stench of rotting and burning flesh; they recall the feeling of human hair in their hands as theywere compelled to shave those condemned to murder; they describe the feeling of carrying stiff corpses rigid from the gas chambers. At most one could attempt to convey the feeling of watching it, of listening to people speak about unspeakable horrors which they have themselves experienced. In nearly 10 hours, (the film is shown in two halves, on separate nights) there is not a slow moment, not a gratuitous detail...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: The Creation of Memory | 11/20/1985 | See Source »

...joined the Mafia 37 years ago in Palermo, Sicily. One of the four men conducting the ceremony pricked the initiate's finger and rubbed the blood on the picture of a saint. The picture was then set afire. The act meant that "if I should betray the organization, my flesh would burn like this saint," Tommaso Buscetta told fascinated spectators in a jammed federal courtroom in New York City last week. The stocky mobster then coolly proceeded to betray his blood brothers in a most dramatic way, fingering seven of the 22 defendants in the courtroom as Mafia members involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mafia's Murderous Code | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

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