Word: siting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Indian press and public reacted in horror. Said the national daily Indian Express: "A barbarous and primitive act." Women's groups protested, and the Rajasthan high court banned further ceremonies at the site. But to some people, Kanwar had become a goddess. Pilgrims thronged to the village of Deorala, 47 miles northeast of Jaipur, to pay homage. Last week hundreds of thousands of people converged on the site for ceremonies marking the end of the 13-day mourning period. The pyre, which had been kept smoldering with ghee (clarified butter) and coconuts, was decorated with a flower-bedecked silk canopy...
...rest of her life, had pressured her into the act. Kanwar's father, saying he believed that she acted under "divine orders," took consolation from the fact that his daughter had become a devi (goddess). A shrine commemorating the widow will be built at the suttee site. More than $160,000 has already been contributed by devotees...
What may turn out to be better news emanates from a site 75 miles south of New York City--Philadelphia. There, at the University of Pennsylvannia's Franklin Field, the visiting Cornell Big Red knocked off the five-time defending Ivy champion Quakers...
Gentrification is everywhere: The Mug 'N Muffin's bottomless coffee cups have been replaced by a bank. Another bank is about to succeed Brigham's across the street. A Mt. Auburn St. building that housed three bars and a restaurant is gone; soon offices and boutiques will occupy its site. Two of the old establishments will return--no doubt to upscale surroundings and a different clientele...
Battista also found Krasnoyarsk ineffective as an ABM site: it is poorly constructed and not hardened against shock waves or electromagnetic pulse effects. "If this radar were turned on today," he said, "it would be an early-warning radar -- not a very good one." Yet it cannot be switched on soon, the U.S. visitors concluded, because the facility lacks essential electronic equipment. They predicted it will take two years to complete...