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...Buddhist monks of Thailand's Forest Tradition, despite eating only one meager meal a day and sleeping only four to six hours a night, tend to live very long lives. The tranquillity of their minds promotes longevity. Naturally, eating more food requires the body to work harder to digest it, resulting in more wear and tear on the body's organs; similarly, a tranquil mind requires little energy. Genetics plays only an indirect role, for tranquil-minded, sparely eating parents tend to raise their children to be the same. Tawit Chitsomboon Nakornratchasima, Thailand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 8/10/2003 | See Source »

...strings at a higher level." There is little conclusive evidence, however, and senior members of the armed forces inside Iraq tend to see things differently. Major Joffery Watson, an intelligence officer based in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, sympathizes with his colleagues back home--"It's easier for us to digest if we can attribute everything to a single group"--but he doesn't buy the analysis. "It's more like gangs," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War That Never Ends | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...keeps me alive.” Over three centuries and several thousand miles away, the Harvard students who are bombarded daily with a plethora of fine words—including, from time to time, Molière’s own—are still waiting for administrators to digest his message...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: The Year in Review | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

...said that he pitched the book idea to the student committee of the IOP, which helped Warren and Sitaraman to find 11 student editors to help digest the data and find personal stories from students at other colleges...

Author: By Kate A. Tiskus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Book Seeks Answer to Youth Political Apathy | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...Bush administration’s agenda. The two government contracts in Iraq already awarded were only bid on by American firms. The biggest contract—for $600 million—has not yet been given out, however. As the editor-in-chief of the Middle East Economic Digest told CNN, “There’s an almighty political scrap going on at the moment. Ignoring the fact that the United Nations is trying to muscle in on post-war control, U.K. International Development Secretary Clare Short has questioned the legality of the U.S. to rebuild Iraq...

Author: By David W. Huebner, | Title: Transatlantic Turmoil | 4/4/2003 | See Source »

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