Word: amish
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...Meanwhile, the Amish in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, are sticking by their traditional rituals to the letter. And they?re having to fight off helicopters and TV trucks to do it. For them, there is no need to publicly proclaim one?s depth of grief, for even this is ritualized - during the funeral processions, each buggy hangs a number on the side; the lower the number, the closer the connection to the deceased. The mothers of the girls will wear black for a year. The schoolhouse will likely be burned down, so there won?t be a structure that, just...
...Amish process of grieving, with its emphasis on forgiveness, is awe-inspiring. There appears to be no waiting period; already, one father of the victims has met with the family of Charles Roberts, the shooter, to show he bears no grudge. Though their culture does not allow the Amish to accept gifts from outside their community, they still have set up two funds for those who want to donate - one in name of the five victims, and one in name of the Roberts family...
...Number of potential terrorist targets in Indiana--including the Amish Country Popcorn Factory--as of January 2006, the most of any state in the National Asset Database, according to a Department of Homeland Security report released last week...
...Perhaps the Justices were aware that Ginzburg had posted the magazine from two tantalizingly named Amish towns, Intercourse and Blue Ball, Pa. But this was merely an example of the magazine's fondness for schoolyard raillery. Surely, even then, "obscene" was a weighter word than "adolescent...
Fast-forward a few years. Barbie is now poised to be toppled as the most popular girls' toy by a rival that makes Barbie look Amish: the Bratz doll, a brilliant invention of MGA Entertainment that you can tell instantly, from the very name, taps into the deep desire of daughters to drive their mothers insane...