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Unlike many transplanted Eastern sects, which offer little more than meditation, Chogyam's tantric teachings are what Naropa calls "both an intellectual discipline and a practical psychology based on meditation." A rigorous but still unaccredited college, sandwiched between a Chinese restaurant and a delicatessen, Naropa offers degree programs in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Precious Master of the Mountains | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

Shiny Motorcycle. Since then Turner has extracted $250,000 in aid from the feds and the state. In the anteroom of his office in Prattville now stands a Burroughs 500 computer terminal that is plugged into Alabama and FBI crime information centers. Near by is a $30,000 radio console...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South/law: A Flying Sheriff | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

Edgar Rice Burroughs peopled Mars with bosomy princesses and Tarzan-like adventurers. H.G. Wells populated the planet with huge, insectlike creatures. NASA scientists have yet to find either maidens or monsters on the Red Planet, but their epoch-making explorations increasingly suggest that there may be more on Mars than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Looking for the Bodies | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

Jimi Hendrix. Brian Jones. William Burroughs. Andy Warhol. Janis Joplin. Lou Reed. Edith Piaf. Baudelaire. Norman Mailer. Rastafarianism. Playwright Sam Shepherd.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Feathers | 3/23/1976 | See Source »

Other methods of concealing payoffs can go undetected for a long time. A foreign subsidiary of Burroughs Corp., the Detroit-based computer company, tacked payoffs onto sales prices and distributed some $2 million through the use of fictitious invoices. Burroughs headquarters found out about the payoffs after a Price Waterhouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: Of Envelopes and Packing Grates | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

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