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...highest, bodhisattvas (those who have attained enlightenment), to hungry ghosts or, still worse, those who have been banished to hell. The sutra was one of the first attempts to syncretize the Indian Buddhist philosophy of karmic debt with the traditional Chinese belief that the dead simply went to an underground world identical to the one they had left behind. It is a fitting testament to the influence of the Silk Road that it was the carrier not only of commodities and innovations that forever changed daily life but also of ideas that changed the afterlife...
...month investigation resulted in a 10,000-word story that detailed an underground network of gay students at Harvard, the secret dealings of the Court that tried to root them out and how three of the gay students ended up committing suicide. The article prompted an apology from University President Lawrence H. Summers to the men and their families; led to a campus-wide discussion about homophobia; and was even cited in Lawrence v. Texas, the historic Supreme Court case that struck down anti-sodomy laws...
...It’s a] forward-looking idea on the part of Harvard. If they want to continue to do this, they have unlimited space underground,” Heywood says...
...carefully scrutinizing the drugs they buy. Meanwhile, attempts to choke supplies off at the source are increasing, at least in mainland China. In Shenzhen, a booming manufacturing city located just across the border from Hong Kong, the Municipal Drug Administration investigated 1,956 cases and shut down 38 underground producers and sellers between January and September of 2003. That's up from the 226 cases and 9 wholesalers busted in the whole of 2002. Pfizer recently signed an agreement with the city of Shanghai calling for cooperation between industry and government in the fight against fake drugs, the first such...
Searching for an excuse to play with toys without looking like a case of arrested development? Meet the urban toys. Like regular toys, they come in all materials, sizes, shapes and prices, but they're created by fashion designers, graffiti artists and underground illustrator--graphic artists like Michael Lau and Pete Fowler, and produced in limited quantities. "They are as much art as they are toys," says Paul Budnitz, owner of Kidrobot, an urban-toy boutique with outlets in San Francisco and New York City. Budnitz, whose two brick-and-mortar stores opened within a year of each other...