Word: gaines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...previous existences, according to a system called karma. The attainment of Nirvana allows us finally to step away from what one writer called "the squirrel cage of birth and rebirth" and enter into oneness with the cosmos. From the beginning, a practice of meditation was the chief mechanism to gain the awareness necessary for enlightenment...
...sound of one hand clapping?" The late-blooming Soka Gakkai practice, favored by Tina Turner, is also nominally a Japanese Mahayana offshoot, although rather atypical in its teaching that the repetition of a four-word phrase, translatable as "Devotion to the mystic law of the Lotus Sutra [scripture]," can gain adherents happiness and material amenities in this world...
...evolve different ways of infecting the cells that line the nasal passages. (The "rhino" of rhinoviruses comes from the Greek word for nose.) But it turns out that almost all the rhinoviruses use the same molecular doorway on the surface of the cell, a protein called ICAM-1, to gain entry to the upper-respiratory tract. Doctors have suspected since the late 1980s that if they could somehow flood the nose with decoy ICAM-1 molecules, they might be able to keep the rhinoviruses from attaching to the real thing...
Britons' overwhelming reaction to the death of Diana no doubt stemmed in part from her unique efforts to modernize, humanize and gain acceptance for an institution that is a source of great fascination and pride to the British but still an enigma to them. CHRIS LUSHER Jakarta...
...Dorrie hires a bulldozer to destroy Larry's backyard maze. Larry leaves Dorrie and his son Ryan and "his place on the planet." Only his job and his commission to create a maze for a friend of a friend save him from utter despair. Larry's mazes gain some local notoriety, and, when offered an opportunity to work on a maze in Chicago with a prominent landscaper, Larry quits his job and moves to the States...