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...word. The two men move through space and over distance, from Westernized civilization to its outposts and beyond. The author never met Nepalese or Tibetans completely isolated from the world outside their valleys, but he comes close. For Matthiessen, at least, this is a journey to the core. Time has no meaning in a land where the past is no different than the future, where there is only the present. As a Zen Buddhist, his goal is to live only in this present which he feels he does--when he meditates in clear mountain light, sitting beneath whirling raptors, eating...
Even though Matthiessen believes that the answer to being his raison d'etre, is locked up within himself, at his core. He has to search to find that inner self, to "come home." The expedition is a search, his meditations are a search, even his writing a book is a search. None of the three take place in the present. The expedition was planned and executed. It didn't just emerge; it wasn't just there. Nor is meditation anything more than an active pursuit of self-knowledge, while writing is looking backwards. Putting pen to paper involves memory...
HARRISBURG, Pa.--New tests show that the core of the nuclear reactor at the Three Mile Island power plant which failed last month suffered grave damage in the early stages of the crisis, federal officials announced yesterday...
...Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said in its daily status report that in the first 15 hours of the March 28 accident, referred to as a "transient" period, large portions of the core were exposed when coolant water boiled into steam...
Technicians yesterday continued to cool the reactor core slowly as they prepared for an eventual cold shutdown. The main coolant water temperatures had fallen to 249 degrees by afternoon, a drop of one degree since Saturday...