Word: buddhists
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...China as “my abandoned child. I’ve messed up our relationship so badly, I don’t know how to talk to her anymore!” She spent the summer researching in Beijing, where she battled homesickness, language difficulties and a Buddhist cousin who wouldn’t kill the mosquitoes and ants in her home. This same cousin tried to convince Kuo that handing out food and blankets to the homeless only increases their material desires...
...court at local camps, or feverishly working out in anticipation of pre-season practices. So it’s a safe bet to say that Harvard senior Elliott Prasse-Freeman was the only Division I point guard traveling the deep jungles of Southeast Asia, notebook in hand, asking Buddhist monks about prostitution...
Thailand is notorious for its sex tourism industry, and many human rights organizations point to its exploitation of young girls as one of modern humanity’s glaring failures. And since over 90 percent of the Thai population identifies itself as Buddhist, Prasse-Freeman, as any good Ivy assists leader should, wanted to make the connection...
...that wasn’t too serious a setback, because Prasse-Freeman wanted mostly to talk to Buddhist monks and NGO workers in Thailand who would help him answer the religious and political questions...
...gets even more fun. In Thailand's northeastern province of Udon Thani, the rocket men like nothing better than a big bang, and some of the kingdom's top rocketmakers stage secret gatherings near Si Sutoh Temple at Kam Chanode three or four times a year, usually on important Buddhist festivals. Secret, that is, until the first blastoff, which can be heard for miles around. Kilograms of home-cooked explosive are packed into PVC tubes strapped to bamboo poles, fuses are connected to a car battery to provide an ignition spark, and then?whoosh!?the rockets shoot up into...