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...launched a separate inquiry after three bottles with wicks in them were found near a burned-out campground. At one point, as many as 30 fires started within a single half-hour. Some authorities called it terrorism, but others said the fires had been set just for the hell of it. "What's really fueling these fires is the heritage of pastoralism," says Michel Thinon, a researcher at the Mediterranean Institute of Ecology and Paleoecology in Marseilles. He argues that millennia of human activity have favored the growth of pine forests, which are prone to fires, over the hardwoods that...
...guardians, whereas later Buddhist art, which evolved largely in East Asia and changed due to the Buddhist church’s becoming increasingly sectarian, accentuated on the a wider variety of subject matter and style. This ranges from the furious deities of the Esoteric tradition to moralistic paradise and hell scenes of the Pureland school to the simple ink play of Zen. Through January 4, 2004. Hours: Monday through Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. $6.50 adults, $5 students/seniors, free with Harvard ID. Arthur M. Sacker Museum, 485 Broadway...
...when girls who had committed no crime more serious than naive sauciness, or who had been raped or impregnated, were sent to convent Borstals run by some very nasty nuns. "Here," one sister tells a girl, "you will be saved from eternal damnation." In fact, the place is a hell on Eire. The nuns, using their charges as unpaid laborers in a sweatshop laundry, flog the girls, make ribald fun of their naked bodies, allow a visiting priest to force them into sex, and drive them to despair or madness or flailing rebellion...
...Christians, we are told to bear witness to our religious convictions so that others may experience the forgiveness and salvation of Jesus Christ. If people die without a personal relationship with Jesus, they will spend eternity in hell. I believe saving someone from eternal damnation is worth the risk and inconvenience that missionaries face in the Middle East. DARREN THIELGES LaMoure...
...have indicated they could support Rep. Dennis Kucinich, one of the pack of Democratic presidential hopefuls. But, said Green Kevin McKeown, mayor pro-tem of Santa Monica, "waiting for the Democratic Party to nominate Dennis Kucinich is like worrying about what brand of ice skates to buy in case hell freezes over." Also weighing on the decision are strict ballot rules in some states that would preclude the Greens from putting up candidates for local races if they don't offer a presidential candidate...