Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days were cloudy and cold. We hung around the beach in sweaters, just enjoying the view and sipping tropical drinks. When the weather improved, we explored some of the others islands and found the perfect beach on Paradise Island. It was completely sheltered from the wind, with pure white sand and almost no people. That beach was a beautiful sight--I really wish I was there...
...past] nunneries weren't oriented toward studying the scripture, but more toward practice [of religion]...[but] it was never actually written in scriptures that [nuns] can't make sand mandalas," Kerin said...
Life in exile, which has uprooted traditional sex roles, increased exposure to Western Buddhists, and the Dalai Lama's support has opened a "space of possibility," Kerin said. The nuns created their first sand mandala...
...coming weeks, the nuns will be preparinga sand mandala demonstration for the Dalai Lama'supcoming visit to Brandeis University...
...fast for legal doctrine to keep up. And nowhere is the gap between what scientists have discovered and what judges must rule on greater than in the realm of artificial reproduction. An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 frozen embryos--fertilized eggs no larger than a grain of sand--are being preserved in liquid-nitrogen canisters across the country. As many as 20,000 of them could be in legal limbo. As of now, the courts have no clear rules for resolving questions of ownership and control. Lawyers can't even agree on whether a frozen embryo should be regarded...