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...flight movies are holding your attention. You're sick of playing solitaire on your laptop. Now's the perfect time, then, to try meditating (if you read TIME's recent cover story, you know that millions worldwide already do). Just put on the eye mask, pull up the blanket and empty your mind. Whether you manage five minutes or 50, a session will help reduce stress and get you to your destination in a better mood. Everyone will think you're snoozing but you're actually meditating on these selected insights from Eastern spiritual sources, past and present...
Although limited restrictions on smoking in city restaurants have existed since 1984, the blanket ban on smoking in all Cambridge restaurants and bars was only passed in June after nearly a year of heated debate...
...Afghanistan, which I considered to be a matter of U.S. national security. I did not back President Bush's attack on Iraq because I thought that the American people were not being told the truth about the reasons for invading. I do not believe any President should be given blanket authority to invade another nation unless the President sets forth clear and truthful reasons. That does not make me contemptuous of using military power; it makes me a candidate who is more judicious in the use of U.S. military power than President Bush and many of my Democratic competitors. HOWARD...
...resentful at the indignity of occupation - and fearful of the loss of Sunni privilege that had been guaranteed by the Baathists - to the tribal politics of vengeance. And the mounting anger among ordinary Iraqis at the failure of the occupation authorities to restore normalcy also functions as a protective blanket: Most Iraqis are unlikely to support a violent challenge to the occupation, but right now they may not be inclined to oppose it with any great conviction, either...
Pensions, the steady stream of income granted in return for years of faithful service, were once supposed to offer a dependable security blanket for millions of older Americans. Lately, though, pension-fund values have been devastated by stock market losses and historically low interest rates on fixed-income securities. "That's kind of a double whammy," says Comptroller General David Walker. Over the past 2 1/2 years alone, the total amount of underfunding of corporate plans--basically, the difference between what companies are projected to owe their retired workers and the size of corporate pension funds--has ballooned by more...