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Stress reduction, life extension and transitory states of bliss are worthy pursuits but not the true, historical purpose of meditation. In Zen Buddhist parlance, it is a way to resolve the "great matter" of birth and death, by allowing the practitioner to bear witness to the indestructible, birthless, deathless self-nature that lies at the heart of all existence and then to live in accordance with this insight. HOAG HOLMGREN Nederland, Colo...
Whatever kind of Republican Schwarzenegger may be, it's probably not the kind to give much comfort to a cultural conservative like Pat Robertson. The actor has said he's pro-choice, though how he feels about things like parental notification and partial-birth abortion is unknown. He's loud and clear about his support for gay rights, including adoption rights. He once told Cosmopolitan magazine, "I have no sexual standards in my head that say this is good or this is bad. Homosexual--that only means to me that he enjoys sex with a man and I enjoy...
...obesity, that is. In a no-nonsense policy statement devoted to the growing problem, the American Academy of Pediatrics has called for its members to go beyond their routine tracking of height and weight. Pediatricians are being urged to identify children most at risk for obesity (taking into account birth weight, family history, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and other factors), then carefully track their body mass index--a ratio of weight to height--and watch for significant changes from year to year. Early intervention is key: University of Buffalo researchers have found that 86% of all obese children get that...
...since he was arrested at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo II airport on March 29, with $48,000 in cash in a backpack he was carrying. Though he had a form declaring the money—which Okhotin has said was charitable collections intended for destitute Christians in his birth country—Okhotin walked down the airport’s green “nothing to declare” corridor. Okhotin’s lawyer argued at his trial last week that he had made an innocent mistake...
...these pilgrimages, particularly those of the parents who have brought mentally disabled children here. Holy water doesn’t stop cancer, chemotherapy does; and a three-dollar bar of soap in the shape of the Virgin Mary won’t do much in the way of healing birth defects. But my emotional, aesthetic side is completely struck by the wonder of the scene: by the music echoing from the giant underground basilica, by the way people’s hands lovingly stroke the rocks of the grotto, by the sense of hope and faith in the humid July...