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...across town, the agency holds 90-minute cash-management classes. The teacher, former banker Kim Seung Duck, loudly exhorts borrowers to embrace the habits of the rich by "loving money and saving." Under the white glare of fluorescent lights, middle-aged women scribble down his instructions while younger classmates doze. "My students are generally uneducated about money," says Kim. "It's difficult, because Asian parents think it's their duty to give money to their kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The House of Cards | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

Increasingly it is being detached from Buddhism. Along with the more obscure Zen techniques (such as sitting for hours in positions that look painful to me and asking to be hit with sticks if you feel you are about to doze off), Americans are trying Vipassana (which begins by focusing on your breath), walking meditation (at first walking really, really slowly and then being hyperaware of each step), Transcendental Meditation (or TM, repeating a Sanskrit syllable over and over), Dzogchen (cultivating a clear but even-keeled awareness) and even trance dance (spinning with a blindfold on for an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Say Om | 8/4/2003 | See Source »

...shot dead in an ambush just outside town. One minute, he and his partners were cruising on motorcycles toward an elementary school; the next, they were getting fired at by strangers who then vanished into the forest like ghosts. Now, at the once languid station where patrolmen used to doze in the midday heat, officers cradle their assault rifles and eye every visitor with tense suspicion. "We're all pretty spooked," says Marohsae...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gunning for Cops | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...impossible to doze off, however, when the band launched into a horn showcase that riffed on Metheny’s composition “Offramp.” Vu crafted a searing, unsettling sonic landscape by half-blowing, half-buzzing into his horn. He simultaneously filtered and looped the sound with a mixer at his side and proceeded to solo over the resulting vamp. Initially captivating for its ingenuity, it decayed into a druggy, hellish stream of screaming guitars, strobing lights and tumult of menacing drums. It was an unsettling, visual and auditory apocalypse that left the audience puzzling...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Speaking of Metheny | 4/19/2002 | See Source »

...conditioning. My husband can't join us, so I'm the girls' sole protector and supplier of food, drinks and entertainment. For eight hours straight, I'm too worried about a kidnapping at one of the train's many stops even to go to the bathroom by myself or doze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alone, With Kids | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

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