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...rugged and remote north for mourners to show their solidarity by washing their hands in the same bowl of water, and that's what they did at the funeral in September of Ester Awete, who died of an unexplained fever. Health workers now believe it was that ritual cleansing that launched the current outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. The hemorrhagic fever, which kills its victims within days of its onset, is transmitted via contact with any of the body fluids of an infected person. It's killed some 39 people over the past month, and right...
Deep inside the rain forest, south of the mighty Amazon River, lies a 435-mile stretch of dirt road. For many Brazilians, the paving of such rutted, often impassable routes has almost mystical significance as an essential part of economic progress. But to environmentalists this ritual of development always means destruction for the earth's largest rain forest, and in this particular case, could unleash forces that would make this road the most dangerous thoroughfare in the world...
...certain how Koetsu managed to find a place within this society as one of its principal tastemakers - as, in a sense, its artistic director. The role wasn't a complete sinecure: the ruling warlord, Tokugawa Ieyasu, ordered the seppuku, or ritual suicide, of one of Koetsu's circle, the tea master Furuta Oribe, for some real or imagined disloyalty. But Koetsu ended his days in dignified security, as the quasi-religious head of a community at Takagamine, near Kyoto, part artists' colony and part monkish village...
...author, J.D., is really old now, something like 80 years old, and lives with his third wife, a nurse who is only 30. Peggy says he had some very strange habits, like drinking his own urine, which sounds really gross but is actually just part of some self-cleansing ritual, and she says he practiced Christian Science, Scientology and homeopathy, which is fine with me as long as he doesn't try to get me involved. Also he abstained from sex with Margaret's mother because of the advice of some Indian mystic. And I think that's pretty good...
...Barak's own domestic situation may have contributed to the breakdown, too. He faces a tough battle for political survival when his parliament reconvenes, and being subjected to the ritual dressing down that Arafat requires as cover for signing a new deal may be more than the Israeli leader can afford. And he may have been doing Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak a favor - thousands of Egyptian university students calling for "Holy War" against Israel clashed with security forces Wednesday, and Barak's arrival in Egypt at this point may have stirred up domestic turmoil...