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“We could've talked for another hour. People were really getting into it,” said Reuben Grassl, who organized a Feb. 14 community meeting in Shiro to discuss the proposed I-69 corridor route through Grimes County. The meeting was led by Grassl, Charles Wendt, and Edna Keasling and was attended by a cross section of 65 people from as far as Madisonville and Iola, who showed up with both questions and suggestions for opposition plans. “We gave them the latest information we received from the four recent meetings in the area, because a lot of information TxDoT and TTC put out would...

Countdown to doomsday: What makes a cult leader tick? By Ryann Connell Staff Writer May 8, 2003 The 69-year-old leader lies in one of the whitened vans dying of cancer. About the only constant in Yuko Chino's apparently soon to be over life is that other people have nearly always regarded her as something of a kook. Those who knew her as a child almost universally describe the ailing 69-year-old cult leader as a weirdo. Much of Japan remains befuddled as her white-clad followers from Panawave Laboratory drape unblemished cloth along the roads as they traverse the countryside in preparation...