As they shared cigarettes and talked easily with each other, the Cambodian commander showed us bullet holes and scars from artillery fire in the temple stones.

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When a gunman opened fire on a temple in Wisconsin and Brian was the first to arrive, he did not consider his own safety.

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Good ribs are all over the place, but the best brisket is in Texas, and to me that means The Salt Lick, a rock-your-world temple of fire, smoke and meat outside Austin.

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Last week, an eight-hour meeting between Thai and Cambodian officials ended with both sides agreeing on only one point: that troops each country has amassed at the site of the temple will not fire on each other.

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His temple belongs to the Shingon sect, whose central rite is the fire ceremony, goma, in which novice monks burn pine branches and recite sutras for seven days.

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