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Since Skjaervo became department chair, the department hired professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Leonard Willem J. van der Kuijp, who will become department chair next spring...
Since Skjaervo became department chair, the department hired professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Leonard Willem J. van der Kuijp, who will become department chair next spring...
...members," the time was ripe for gurus. Japan's galloping economic miracle in the 1970s and '80s also spawned a boom in "new religions" offering spiritual refuge to Japanese alienated by materialism. Asahara's messianic self-image expanded to help fill this void. After a visit to a Himalayan retreat, he boasted of having achieved satori, the Japanese term for nirvana or enlightenment. At this point he also claimed his first success at self-levitation...
Relying on reports from 26 locations round the globe, our story tracks this new slave trade from Nepal's Himalayan villages to the mining towns of the Amazon and on to West European strip clubs. "This story demonstrates our global reach and knowledge," says senior editor Christopher Redman, who coordinated the report from his office in Brussels. "We got up close to a difficult subject most people don't want to talk about...
...corners of the earth are immune to the corrupting influence of the burgeoning sex trade. Eastern Europe, once prudishly communist, is pockmarked with streetwalkers and whorehouses. Poverty has forced many of its young people to prostitute themselves in the fleshpots of the West. In Nepal's Himalayan hill villages, some 7,000 adolescents are sold each year to slave traders for the sweat-drenched brothels of Bombay. In Brazil an estimated 25,000 girls have been forced into prostitution in remote Amazon mining camps. In Italy, Nigerian streetwalkers are flooding into Bologna, while in Belgium, the neon-bright windows...