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Since late 1999, Georgia-based Eternal Reefs Inc. has mixed some 200 marine enthusiasts' ashes with environmentally safe concrete to create "reef balls." The use of fossil fuels during cremation is somewhat offset by what the balls give back: they are lowered into the ocean to help rehabilitate damaged reefs. Within a year, corals form...
...tried to kill himself. Not long after he recovered, his considerable sympathies were captured by the plight of Burma. He decided that he would go there with the purpose of getting the country's ruling military junta to throw him in prison. As a protest, the gambit was somewhat flawed. The junta was happy to jail him, but they kept letting him out. Every time Mawdsley was deported, he would return, like a self-appointed Daniel in the lion...
...drawn from various parts of Turkey and began putting their oral traditions on paper. "The core of Alevism is simple and humanistic," K??k says. "That means we don't bog down in matters of dogma concerning this verse or that one. So we've found it easier to become somewhat unified in Europe, as well as to integrate into European society." That humanism is personified in Haji Bektash, a 13th century Alevi holy man who, according to Alevi lore, encouraged people to turn the other cheek and love their neighbors. Alevis generally embraced Kemal Ataturk's separation of church...
...Growing somewhat heated as the night progressed, the debate saw the two candidates trade jabs outside the structure of the debate’s question-and-answer format...
...branch. The Supreme Court, which under Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has often tried to protect states’ rights, ruled last year that medical marijuana patients can be prosecuted by the federal government in California even though by state law they are committing no crime. This ruling was somewhat ironic; it seems that the Supreme Court is concerned with safeguarding states’ rights only when when conservative values are at stake...