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...although heads of large Asian monasteries often set up de facto alliances with local power structures, for better or worse). Americans, however, were attracted to "engaged Buddhism" of the sort most eloquently championed by Thich Nhat Hanh, famous for his 1960s anti-war activism. In Yonkers, N.Y., Zen master Bernard Glassman has established--using Zen principles--a bakery, garment company and building-renovation firm staffed by the formerly homeless and unemployed...
Other Ig Nobel recipients included Mark Hostetler of the University of Florida who studied insect splats on car windows; the late Bernard Vonnegut of the State University of Albany who was honored for his work on "Chicken Plucking as a Measure of Tornado Wind Speed"; and a team of scientists led by Carl J. Charnetski who showed that listening to elevator music may help prevent the common cold...
...Reported by Bernard Baumohl/New York
...draw the live element will be, though, is questionable. And other than that feature, Public Eye does not appear to be different from its peers. The show's producers and regular correspondents (among them, veteran Bernard Goldberg and the young, powder blue-shoe wearing Alison Stewart) come mostly from other CBS newsmagazines, such as 48 Hours and the network's mercifully short-lived Coast to Coast. Taped segments will cover the usual mix of hard and soft news, with stories ranging from Bosnian war criminals to incompetent telephone operators. Hidden-camera reports, producers say, will occasionally be used...
Even some of those who volunteered seem to be having second thoughts. "When I registered, it was more of an idea," says Dr. Bernard Hirschel of Geneva, Switzerland, who had not discussed his decision with his wife and children. "[The organizers] did not even talk about a vaccine that was ready for testing." Perhaps not. But by putting their bodies on the line, Hirschel and the growing ranks of other volunteers may have brought Desrosiers' unfinished vaccine one step closer...