mfp: This makes me think that the point of sandbox is not as much allowing access to stuff you cannot use with higher $SAFE levels as offering a clean environment. Am I right? In both cases, being able to specify which stuff is to be imported could be useful.

Starting with an example:

 box = Sandbox.new(:init => [:load], :import => [:YAML, :File])
 box.eval("require 'rubygems'")

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