Expressing intentions and making wishes in this way can accellerate the wheel of karma. It has been recommended by numerous experts in the field that you limit the speed of your karmic wheel to 2-3 rpm (revolutions per millenium).

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PepsiCo is putting $35 million into a series that will offer contestants a chance to travel with Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station.

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What is it with Canadians lining up to have people photograph their private parts? Around 200 people volunteered recently to have pictures of their genitals taken and broadcast on "Sex with Sue," a Canadian TV show hosted by sex educator Sue McGarvie. The idea was to give viewers a realistic idea of what other people's equipment looks like, thus allaying their concerns about whether or not they%uFFD5re "normal." "Whenever you see a whole bunch of penises and a whole bunch of vaginas, you are bound to say, 'Oh, that's what they look like,'" McGarvie told the Press & Journal, Scottish newspaper. About 200 people showed up for the photo shoot, and more than 150 stuck out a three-hour wait in line to participate.

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Before I had first done so, writing a book seemed a fine, even grand thing. And so it still seems -- except, truth to tell, it is a lot better to have written a book than to actually be writing one. Without attempting to overdo the drama of the difficulty of writing, to be in the middle of composing a book is almost always to feel oneself in a state of confusion, doubt and mental imprisonment, with an accompanying intense wish that one worked instead at bricklaying.

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County officials are setting up a program under which people who get traffic tickets can e-mail their excuses and explanations to a judge. Until now, they'd have to sit for hours in court, waiting for a hearing.

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Word to women: If you are in the state of Washington, wear pants. Two Washington men who were convicted of violating the state's voyeurism statute for secretly taking pictures up the skirts of women and little girls successfully challenged the law earlier this month. The use of what has been called "upskirt cams" and "upskirt voyeur photography" is "reprehensible" and "disgusting," the state Supreme Court ascertained, but secretly taking photos up women's skirts in public places is not criminal.

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The content of this page is suitable for children of all ages. However, the procedures that involve cooking rice or omelets, slicing ingredients and rolls with sharp knives, and so on, should only be done with close adult supervision. To resurrect and paraphrase a cliche, the family that rolls sushi together stays together.

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