1.   All the monks have different duties.

2.   As we savored our meal, watching the tourist boats come and go, we decided the monks had nothing to fear.

3.   Almost all its monks have college degrees, while most other monks have only minimal education.

4.   Far from the madding superhighway the rest of us wend in search of daily data, the monks have no telephones, television or visitors.

5.   Monks said they pass the time as monks have for centuries, reading, praying and conducting liturgy.

6.   Only a former monk could have the audacity to riff on Jesus in a book about sex.

7.   Recent excavation of the site has yielded a cache of valuable art objects, certain to be authentic because the monk has the plans to prove it.

8.   The monk had to become conscious of his own behavior, not just in the presence of his master, but in the most commonplace of circumstances.

9.   The monks have Western influences in their lives, but most have limited English skills.

10.   Yet the monks do not have all the answers.