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...ceremonial music and dancing, and the meal following it, are all spiritual offerings to Krishna. Because Krishna respects the sanctity of all life, the devotees are vegetarian. They live according to four basic restrictions, which prohibit intoxication, gambling and illicit sex as well as eating meat. Another requirement is chanting the Hare Krishna mantra sixteen times a day. A mantra, a Sanskrit word combining mind and feeling, is a combination of transcendental sounds which are intended to free the chanter's mind from anxiety...
...American principle is ever an active one: to set to work on a problem and be done with it. In an area with so much potential for exploitation and grief, that impulse is easily understood. But to shape lasting solutions now -- whether to legitimate surrogacy or prohibit it -- may be premature when so little is known. "We have real concerns about the widespread use of surrogacy until more study is done," says Dr. Richard Marrs of Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles and a member of the committee that drew up the fertility society's guidelines. "We have to reserve...
...international editors and correspondents were summoned to Pretoria to hear the presidential proclamation invoking the sweeping new regulations. There, while a warm summer sun bathed the administrative capital, they were handed a 24-page document whose terms were to go into effect on Dec. 11. The new regulations prohibit journalists from being "on the scene, or at a place within sight of any unrest, restricted gathering or security action" without permission of security officials. They forbid the reporting of "subversive" comments by those advocating a wide range of antigovernment actions. They ban the photographing of dead people, property damage...
...based on claims of discrimination -- in employment, health care, insurance, housing, child custody and schooling. And where the law appears to be heading in these disputes is increasingly clear. Courts and agencies in at least 20 states have decided that AIDS victims are protected by existing state laws that prohibit discrimination against the handicapped...
...free to compete around the world with the British bank. Said he: "We are a very powerful bank, and we can continue extending our business abroad." Experts consider the bank's $116 million price tag a bargain for the South Africans. Moreover, because of tight currency rules that prohibit export of capital except at unfavorable exchange rates, the British Barclays will keep the proceeds from the sale on deposit in South Africa for at least a year...