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...habit may be more international than he thinks. Mariam Salehe, a college student from Frankfurt, Germany, arrived at Terminal 5 at noon only to learn her flight home would leave at seven. Bathed in light filtering from the glass ceiling panels and standing near a sleekly designed check-in desk, she took little comfort in her surroundings. "It doesn't matter that it's beautiful," she says. "I just want...
...Dalai Lama since he was a tiny child. In 1960, when Pico was 3 years old, his father visited in India with the newly exiled Dalai Lama and brought back a picture of the shy 24-year-old for his son. That picture sat on Pico's desk for 30 years, until 1990, when a fire roared through his family's house, wiping out everything including the photo and bringing home to him the Buddhist idea of the impermanence of life...
...buildings are more “regularly shaped,” and can thus be covered with fewer access points.Despite the fact that dissatisfaction reports show a stark contrast between the River Houses and the Quad, Selsby claims that the reports of wireless problems to the IT help desk show no “actual difference.”“It may be that they’re not calling us, which is part of the problem,” he says, declining to comment on FAS IT’s budget plan for fixing these wireless problems...
...practical response-is one of the things that have made the current Dalai Lama such a startling and tonic figure on the world stage. There are few monks in any tradition who speak so rarely about faith while rejecting anything that has been disproved by scientific inquiry; on his desk at home, he keeps a plastic model of the brain with detachable parts so that he can take it apart, put it together again and see how it works. And there are even fewer political leaders who work from the selfless positions and long-term vision of a monk...
...woman gave Bilmes a photograph of her son, which Bilmes has taped above her desk...