Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after Trungpa's dialogues with such people as Timothy Leary, was a seminar offered by Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein, two former Peace Corps volunteers who returned from Southern Asia as adepts in the Theravadan practice's Vipassana meditation. Suddenly all three branches of Buddhism were teaching on American soil. It must be noted, however, that they did not necessarily teach here the way they taught anywhere else...
Wenders, a German director, filmed The End of Violence on American soil with American actors. (Perhaps he suggesting that there's more "violence" here than in Europe? Let's hope not.) The movie is set in Hollywood, but away from all recognizable landmarks. Movie producer Mike Max (Bill Pullman) and his wife, Paige (Andie MacDowell), live in a house that seems to be located on the edge of the world. The water in their swimming pool laps over its edge and into the Pacific Ocean. Mike spends his mornings teleconferencing with his secretary and barking into a cellular phone while...
Polaroid already had begun testing the site's foundation when the council voted in June to require the company to perform surface-soil testing as well...
...urged the council to require the company to have the soil tested by the state before construction can begin...
Jacob and his family are Old Order Amish. They belong to a community that lives at the edge of American society, with spiritual values rooted in Pennsylvania-Deutsch soil. Most of the 20,000 Old Order Amish living in Lancaster County are descended from the 200 German-Swiss farmers who immigrated there during the 18th century. The community has paid a price for its separateness: because the Amish forbid marriage outside the Old Order, centuries of inbreeding have afflicted them with certain genetic diseases that strike their young in alarming numbers...