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Amazingly, despite Lilly's copious writings on the subject (notably The Deep Self), it took California's meditation industry almost two decades to latch onto his discovery. The pioneers of Pop immersion were Glenn and Lee Perry, a Los Angeles couple who started mass-producing tanks for home dunking five years ago and have sold tanks at prices ranging from $1,200 to $2,500. Last June they opened the Samadhi (Sanskrit for state of deep contemplation) Tank Center in Beverly Hills, where they have attracted 3,500 customers. Meanwhile, two-year-old Denver-based Float To Relax...
...great truths and a political radical who believes "you have to be narrow when you're at war." Neither is it difficult to understand Dolores' need for Victor's warm body at the same time that she resents him. She has had it rough, as her copious flashbacks to a miserable marriage and family tragedies indicate. Life is messy, after all, and consistency is often the first casualty...
...years as a correspondent in Asia. Like any sweeeping work, it has its ups and downs. If Shaplen's book is flawed by the sheer breadth of his topic, it is held together by the author's personal approach. But A Turning Wheel is also a strangely unfulfilling work, copious in its detail, but marred by its omission of China...
...with road safety signs and exhortations to strive for modernization. Peking's 7.5 million population salvaged some holiday spirit from the capital's markets, which were specially stockpiled with 1 million chickens and 300,000 ducks, geese, grouse, hare and fish. In addition, stores were supplied with copious quantities of mao-tai, a fiery liquor as potent as rocket fuel...
...then, the country has had a shaky coalition regime, a short-lived parliamentary republic, three coups, a bloody civil war and the assassination of a head of state. Nigeria has simultaneously been afflicted by social and economic strains that have grown along with its wealth, which comes from its copious reserves of easily refinable "sweet" light crude oil. Largely because thousands of peasants have deserted their farms to seek bloated wages in booming Lagos, the country must now import much of its food; the capital itself has swelled to a sprawling, traffic-clogged metropolis...