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...cards. Thor's best days are almost certainly behind him (though no fewer than 12 Asatru Websites are listed in the Yahoo! Web-indexing service). But there are plenty of other nearly extinct or quite localized creeds that could expand their compass via the Internet and thus heighten the world's already ample multiculturalism, for better or worse. Paganism, shamanism, voodoo, gnosticism, santeria--these and scores more are out there, accessible worldwide. So is the expanding pool of freshly coined sects, some of which will presumably survive. All this may seem unimportant now, with so many Websites looking so gray...
...violate a government ban on selling dog meat for human consumption. Although some critics claim that many of the butchered dogs are stolen pets, speciality shops continue to sell dog meat soups, which are often advertised as "tonic soups" or "bow-wow soups." Superstition holds that these soups heighten male sexual prowess...
Schnairsohn employs a flashing applause sign to help heighten the sense of meta-theatre. This works well during this early stages of the wonderful first scene, but over the course of the play it grows overly gimmicky; ostensibly mimicking the notion of an impossibly receptive live studio audience while in fact becoming nearly dependent...
...HASTE and Safetywall heighten awareness and safety, but no program offers foolproof protection...
Students have taken the initiative to form safety organizations that both heighten awareness of safety issues on campus and deal practically with the realities of student life...