"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious."
- Alan Minter, Boxer
In case you believe that the harshest and most unstable areas of the world are only in the Middle East because of cultural or religious extremism, I have two links for you to follow.
Religious cult says nuclear war now, goes underground
Neo Nazis win in Germany's east
Not much to say about this. Of course there has always been extremism of this sort in years past, and its important to remember that, nothing special or "unusual" here.
But just to give you a quick blast from the past, the year was 1997: Clinton in office, the poverty rate in the US decreased (!), Spice Girls were big and so were Smashing Pumpkins, the Florida Marlins beat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, Monica Lewinsky's name would not be known until January of 1998, and Princess Diana died at age 36. But this incident was a real mind double taker. A group suicide by a cult waiting to meet with Comet Hale-Bopp.
Heaven's Gate
How quickly we forget our recent past.
Painting by El Greco
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