Word: ancient
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...than those with siblings" in terms of intellectual development. She contends that some children with siblings are even worse brats. "They beat their elder brothers," Mao says. "The decisive factor is not whether one is a single child. It is a question of parental attitude and education." As an ancient Chinese saying goes, "Bad parents produce bad children." Most single-child parents are survivors of the chaotic Cultural Revolution. Many failed to finish their own schooling, and they are often ill equipped to rear children properly. Some of these parents apply immense pressure on the children to succeed where they...
...August, do believers in I Ching or crystals gather together with believers in astral travel, shamans, Lemurians and tarot readers, for a communal chanting of om, the Hindu invocation that often precedes meditation. Led on by the urgings of Jose Arguelles, a Colorado art historian who claimed that ancient Mayan calendars foretold the end of the world unless the faithful gathered to provide harmony, some 20,000 New Agers assembled at "sacred sites" from Central Park to Mount Shasta to -- uh -- provide harmony...
Another favorite New Age cure for the misfortunes of the body is the . therapeutic touch, again an ancient method newly back in fashion. While nobody knows exactly how these quasi-medical techniques work, people generally turn to them because conventional medicine seems so impersonal, costs so much and fails so often. Greg Schelkun, for example, graduated from Dartmouth and was working for a Boston publisher when he got a chance to go to the Orient with his mother, who was suffering from chronic chills and fevers. In the Philippines she met a healer who laid his hands...
...editor of Rolling Stone magazine. Greider, whose 1981 Atlantic article revealed David Stockman's secret doubts about Reaganomics and caused the President to take his young budget director "to the woodshed," is once again at his provocative best. The book, which takes its name from the fact that in ancient times the creation of money often occurred in temples, is a lucid and colorful examination of how the Fed operates...
...from Midwestern rock to New York rap. The highlights are plentiful. Alison Moyet's "The Coventry Carol" and Sting's "Gabriel's Message" are the two purely spiritual songs, and they are beautifully austere. Sting sings a capella except for a few drum beats, while Moyet blends her ancient sounding carol with simple synthesizer accompaniment producing a haunting blend of present and past...