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...Mount Koya, Mount Shosha and Mount Hiei, all provide lodgings (Mount Koya alone has more than 50 shukubo), as do the hillside temples surrounding the ancient capitals of Kyoto and Nara, where well-trodden pilgrim trails make finding shukubo relatively easy. Levels of comfort vary. In many shukubo, a thin futon, a chaff-filled pillow and nothing but paper doors between you and the next snoring pilgrim are the norm. But others can be surprisingly refined, with delicate flower arrangements, swirling calligraphy on the walls and views of carp ponds. Bathrooms and toilet facilities are typically communal. So are morning...
...They have skinny bones." KARL LAGERFELD, German fashion designer, shrugging off concerns about too-skinny models and arguing that most models are naturally thin. He also said the rise of obesity in many countries, including France, is a more serious problem
...Wiretapping Ruling Is Vulnerable Even opponents of President Bush's surveillance program have to be dismayed by Judge Taylor's thin legal reasoning
...They have skinny bones." KARL LAGERFELD, German fashion designer, shrugging off concerns about too skinny models and arguing that most models are naturally thin. He said the rise of obesity in many countries, including France, is a more serious problem...
...transformed after San Franciscans, Bob Marsh, Mark Summer and Kristin Peterson, installed a wi-fi system. "The farmers learned on the Internet how to prevent diseases, control pests and increase plantain production," says Summer to reach the village of Nyarukamba in western Uganda, visitors have to clamber up a thin, almost vertical dirt track. It's not the kind of place you would expect to find subsistence farmers surfing the Web with wi-fi computers or making voip (voice over Internet protocol) phone calls. But that's exactly what the village's 800 or so inhabitants have been doing - thanks...