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Indian Findings. What provided the clue was a study by Bombay Drs. S.M. Sirsat, J.C. Paymaster and A.B. Vaidya of the Parsis, descendants of the Zoroastrians who fled Persia 1,200 years ago, settled in India and married exclusively within their own sect. Parsi women are three times more likely to develop breast cancers than the rest of the Indian population. Nearly 40% of the Parsi mothers studied showed virus-like particles in their milk...
When Christians first began spreading their strange new doctrines in 1st century Jerusalem, Rabbi Gamaliel urged the Jews to be lenient and to avoid accusing them of heresy. If the new sect was doing God's will, he reasoned, men could not stop them (Acts 5:34). When Christians held power in the Middle Ages, they often ignored this common-sense approach. Heresy became an all-too-common crime punishable by all-too-painful penalties...
Most of us just don't know the extent to which our food is tampered with and how we ourselves support this system. Food is life-and wanting natural food is not the special province of any group, cult or sect...
...swift takeover of the government-Damascus' 21st coup in 21 years. Assad selected a little-known schoolteacher, Ahmed Khatib, 40, to succeed Noureddine Atassi as President. Khatib's principal qualification appears to be that he is, as tradition requires, a member of the Sunni, the largest Moslem sect. Assad, who appointed himself secretary-general of the ruling Baath (Renaissance) Party, demonstrated that he was really running Syria by ordering the previous secretary-general and his rival for power, Major General Salah Jadid, into exile in Egypt...
...assertion, which implies that slamming someone's foot in the door or that twisting someone's nose might help that person to achiever Enlightenment, did not reject the written word, only the written doctrine. The other Buddhist sects looked at words for content, i. e., Buddha's words in the sutras which always begin, "Thus I have heard, and the Buddha spoke...." The Zen sect composed words to express the spirit of the man who wrote them. Calligraphy was believed to express the total personality of the writer. By contrasting the abstract characters of Heaven and Earthly Calligraphy with...