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...surprisingly, given those results, a growing number of corporations?including Deutsche Bank, Google and Hughes Aircraft???offer meditation classes to their workers. Jeffrey Abramson, CEO of Tower Co., a Washington-based development firm, says 75% of his staff attend free classes in transcendental meditation. Making employees sharper is only one benefit; studies say meditation also improves productivity, in large part by preventing stress-related illness and reducing absenteeism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Get Smarter, One Breath at a Time | 1/10/2006 | See Source »

...Dimona research facility and the separation plant are protected not only by Israeli troops but by highly sophisticated electronic systems and radar screens that operate around the clock. All aircraft???including Israeli military planes?are barred from flying over the areas where the nuclear plants are located. During the Six-Day War, in fact, an Israeli Mirage III?either out of control or with its communications gear in operative?inadvertently flew over Dimona. Israeli defenders shot it down with a ground-to-air missile. In 1973 a Libyan airliner flying from Benghazi to Cairo lost its way because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Violent Week: The Politics of Death | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

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