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These taxis in the old capital city of Kyoto wait outside the doors of the ineffable, of another Japan entirely. The Ryoanji temple's Zen rock garden?five austerely abstract boulder mounds set in a sea of curried sand pebbles?is a celebrated spiritual masterpiece. The garden is absolutely still, and yet tense with an obscurely bullying profundity. A guide whispers the sermons in the stones, the allegories: the rocks are, maybe, tigers swimming across the sea. Or they are whales rocking in the deep. Or perhaps they are these mysterious islands themselves: Japan. The abbot of Ryoanji...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: All the Hazards and Threats of | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

...kettle on the second floor of a former stove factory. The premises are shared by five workers and a seven-month-old, beer-guzzling Airedale named Porter. Thousand Oaks Brewing (1982 sales: $23,460) operates from the basement of the Berkeley, Calif, home of Charles and Diana Rixford. In Boulder, Colo., David Hummer, a University of Colorado astrogeophysicist, co-founded Boulder Brewing (1982 sales: $96,000) with two partners in what used to be the goat house of a farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Is Tasty | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

...appeal of the beers, however, is diminished a bit by the price. The little brewers use expensive ingredients and lack the volume to achieve efficient operations. Boulder Brewing beer sells for about $5 a sixpack, for example, compared with about $3 for a premium domestic brand like Michelob. Despite such prices, the micros have had to struggle to break even in the face of heavy start-up costs. It can take an estimated $350,000 to open a microbrewery. "We're finally holding our head above water," says Newman, a former high school teacher and newspaper reporter who began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Is Tasty | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

...accepted an offer to teach at the University of Colorado and will move to Boulder after she takes a year off to write a book about American frontier history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Westering | 4/8/1983 | See Source »

Officials at the school in Boulder, Colo., were not perturbed over the students' joke. Arthur Ingraham, director of food services, this week said that the sculpture more "reflected a spoof on the food service" rather than a harsh criticism...

Author: By Peter R. Eccles, | Title: Cannibal Honored | 11/13/1982 | See Source »

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