Word: labyrinthes
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...tunnels and bunkers were dug during the Afghan war with the Soviet Union but have been upgraded since a U.S. cruise-missile strike against al-Qaeda in 1998. U.S. soldiers have the military technology, such as night-vision goggles and breathing devices, to operate in this underground labyrinth, and U.S. bombers have pounded the network. But U.S. troops could face fearsome resistance once they actually venture down there. A former mujahedin commander based in Kandahar told TIME that one possible target would be a mountain complex in southwestern Afghanistan, built by bin Laden as an al-Qaeda base because...
...Amis, who are Jewish, drove an hour from Brookfield, Conn., for the Family Labyrinth Walk--held twice a year by the nondenominational New Canaan-based Labyrinth Project of Connecticut--to expose their kids to an ancient form of meditation and spirituality. In the Middle Ages, when Christians could not make the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, they would walk a labyrinth to symbolize the journey. Today, adults and kids of all faiths are walking them to pray, meditate or simply relax...
...years ago, there were only a handful of labyrinths in the U.S., but seekers can now walk more than 1,500-- including about 400 built in the past year. Unlike mazes, which are designed to confuse, labyrinths have only one continuous path to the center. They can be carved out of cornfields or gardens, or made of wood, stone, painted brick or canvas. They are showing up in hospitals, parks, prisons and schools. Some couples are getting married within ceremonial labyrinths. A new outdoor labyrinth at New York City's Trinity Church, at the frenetic intersection of Wall Street...
Lauren Artress, an Episcopal priest at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral, founded the modern U.S. labyrinth movement after discovering this quiet pleasure during a retreat in New Jersey in 1991. "We have a vast spiritual hunger in the West," she says, "and labyrinths are a tool for centering...
Devotees say labyrinths offer peace, comfort from grief--and sometimes better health. "We know now that nurturing a person's emotional and spiritual side is a key part of the healing process," says Greg Schaffer, president of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, Md., who last summer helped install a now popular garden labyrinth on campus...