Word: sanding
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When British explorer Wilfred Thesiger traveled through Oman in the 1950s, he did it the hard way: an arduous crossing by camel of the sand-dune seas of the Empty Quarter, the Arabian peninsula's desolate interior. Parched, starved, waylaid by tribesmen and imprisoned by local sheiks, he barely survived. Fortunately, today's traveler needn't be as tough or determined as Thesiger; regular flights now make the hop over the Empty Quarter...
...small consolation in his secret. He is convinced that just a few meters away from where the Taliban were war dancing lies a third, giant Buddha hidden beneath the earth, wearing a blissful smile, unperturbed by the terrible destruction that turned his two sturdy companions into shimmering billows of sand. Hussain gestures to a cratered, rocky slope beside an ochre cliff face where the pair of 1,700-year-old Buddhas were blasted away by several hundred kilos of TNT. "Our Hazara ancestors have always known that there's another Buddha," he says. "It's sleeping there, in the ground...
...Rape happens at Harvard and what does Harvard do? Harvard buries its head in the sand,” said Andrea Lee, president of Boston NOW, a women’s advocacy organization. “Harvard demonstrates for students that they don’t care very much for students’ safety...
...Anyone who fell behind faced a beating from their guard-trainers. One recruit died in swimming endurance training, another fell off a cliff. The guards took one laggard into the ocean and nearly drowned him. Later they buried him on the beach with his head sticking out of the sand and left him there all night. Former trainer Lee Jun Young defends the brutal regimen: "They were going into North Korea. We had to make them as tough as possible...
...autism: not talking, repetitious behavior and tantrums. Not being able to communicate in words was a great frustration, so I screamed. Loud, high-pitched noises hurt my ears like a dentist's drill hitting a nerve. I would shut out the hurtful stimuli by rocking or staring at sand dribbling through my fingers...