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...located atop Mount Koya - a place of pilgrimage for over a thousand years, home to Japan's oldest Buddhist sect (the Shingon-shu) and a World Heritage Site. You can reach it via a 90-minute train ride from Osaka, followed by a cable-car ascent. The 48-room shukubo is famous for its tofu and lavish temple altar. Meditation is held twice daily with instruction in English and Japanese. "The time it takes for a stick of incense to burn is the amount of time you should meditate each day," advises the head priest, Ryusho Soeda. DAISHIN-IN: Warlord...
...kind of May afternoon that makes you glad to be alive. Carol Siebert, 58, spent it sailing down a Hemet, Calif., highway in a red convertible, the wind lightly ruffling the hair in her blond wig. Beside her, in the driver's seat, was the car's owner, Sonia Mir, a woman Siebert had never met until that...
...Ford's Uphill Road Re "Ford: Just Fix the Car" [sept. 18]: as a former Ford Maverick owner who remembers the gas shortages of the 1970s, I was appalled when the first SUVs rolled off the line. I was even more appalled when people started buying them. How could Ford have such a short memory and be so shortsighted at the same time? What is so hard about producing a fuel-efficient car with sleek lines that will go more than 100,000 miles [161,000 km] without falling apart? What is so difficult about being consumer friendly? What...
...Alpine, Wyoming, gift shop where she works, preparing for the crush of campers and tourists who make the Independence Day weekend such a busy one-she noticed that her son Sean, 5, had come down with the same symptoms. That did it. Struggling to get to the car, Lowery drove Sean to the office of Dr. Donald Kirk, a physician who serves many of Alpine's 470 year-round residents. She got there just in time; shortly after she walked into Kirk's waiting room, Lowery passed out on the floor." Read more at timearchive.com...
DIED. Helen Chenoweth-Hage, 68, former three-term G.O.P. Congresswoman from Idaho whose libertarian views endeared her to antigovernment militia leaders; in a car accident; near Tonopah, Nev. During her tenure in the House, she was one of its most colorful personalities, mocking the Endangered Species Act by serving canned salmon at "endangered salmon bakes" and, while denouncing slavery, labeling the South's position during the Civil War a "states' rights issue...