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Something in me that wants to cling to never...
Another kind of cart carries passengers from check-in counters to aircraft loading areas at Tampa's shiny new $80 million terminal. Called "horizontal elevators," these conveyances run on rubber wheels, have no seats but offer plenty of vertical safety poles to cling to, and are designed to operate smoothly for the benefit of the large percentage of elderly riders in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area. Municipal airports in Dallas, San Francisco and Los Angeles have built moving sidewalks -conveyor belts that transport passengers to loading areas; in Los Angeles, for example, they save about 420 ft. of walking...
MILLIONS of mainland Chinese may have found another sort of faith in their devotion to the wisdom of Chairman Mao, but on Taiwan the island people still cling to their ancient folk religion, a heady mixture of Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian beliefs and practices. None of the old gods and goddesses is more popular than the gentle Matsu, patroness of fishermen and seafarers. According to legend, Matsu was a devout 9th century girl who acquired divine powers at her early death. Pioneer Chinese settlers credited her with protecting them on their trip across the Taiwan Strait 350 years...
Brother Christopher, who was a student at M. I. T. before he joined the Process, explains that "the people who cling to the structures of humanity, guilt, fear, a need to be superior, a need to blame another person, a need to make an excuse for something we've done, will be destroyed at the Final Judgment.... Those who will be saved are the people who meet their fears- accept them first of all-and see that when we first choose to be afraid, we can equally be unafraid. By doing the things, we're most afraid of doing...
...required political courage to cling to an increasingly unpopular policy. Yet there is also something discomforting, and a measure of his insecurity, in the defensiveness of a President who acknowledges that his words might not be believed and explains that "I do not ask you to take what I say on faith." Essentially, Nixon restated his determination to disengage from Viet Nam gradually and to end the war in such a way that "each one of us will come out of this searing experience with a measure of pride in our nation...