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...mechanism, incredibly small, that rules heredity in accordance with precise mathematical laws. In 1866 Mendel published a paper to this effect in the proceedings of the Brünn Natural Science Society, but nothing happened. The world was not ripe for his ideas. In 1868, when he was appointed abbot of his monastery, his scientific career came...
Amid the chanting of sutras, the sounding of gongs and the curling smoke of burning incense. Chief Abbot Oda Sesso was ordaining a head priest for the Zen Buddhist temple of Daitokuji Ryosen-An in Kyoto, Japan. The new Zen priest gravely accepted the kesa -the richly brocaded red-and-gold silk scarf that is the mark of the priesthood -and assumed the Buddhist name of Jyokei. But in Chicago, where she was born 65 years ago, her name was Ruth Fuller. Last week she became the first American in history to be admitted to the Japanese Buddhist priesthood...
...estate, she remodeled and enlarged the house to provide a center and library for U.S. students of Zen. She ran into an unexpected obstacle when the Daitokuji Temple insisted that the new center be designated as the restored sub-temple of Daitokuji. The solution, proposed by the Abbot of Daitokuji to a flabbergasted Ruth Fuller Sasaki: ordain her as Buddhist priest and install her as head of the sub-temple...
Exorcism Next. When the family called in Father William McLeod of nearby St. William the Abbot Church, he sprinkled holy water in each of the Herrmanns' six rooms. "O heavenly Father, Almighty God," he prayed, "we humbly beseech thee to bless and sanctify this house . . . and may the angels of thy light dwell within the walls...
Both Kistiakowsky, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, and Purcell, professor of Physics, said last night that they had received little specific information on what the activities of the expanded committee would...