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Called affectionately the "eightfold way," from Buddha's list of eight virtues that lead to the cessation of pain, the theory is based on eight quantum numbers or fundamental properties that can be used to describe particles. The reasoning that supports the eightfold way is advanced quantum mechanics and beyond the understanding of the mathematically unanointed, but one of the predictions of the "way" was clear enough: a particle must exist that has a negative electric charge and a mass- of 1,676 million electron volts. It should have a life span of one ten-billionth of a second...
...suffering from one life to the next; 2) the origin of man's suffering is craving-for pleasure, for possessions, for cessation, of pain; 3) the cure for craving is the practice of nonattachment to everything-even to the self; 4) the way to nonattachment is the Eightfold Path-right views, right intentions, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right meditation. The Buddha said nothing about God; no divine judgment, but an inexorable law of cause and effect called dharma determines man's weal...
...scholar puts it) that when the Marxists' material needs are satisfied, they will "need something spiritual above and beyond," and that Buddhism will be able to supply it. It is this sort of self-delusion-existing alongside Buddhism's nobility of spirit-that makes the Eightfold Path so full of pitfalls...
...greater use of chemical fertilizers, more efficient methods of handling and storing crops. But the revolution has also partly resulted from shifts in the structure of farming in the U.S.-toward bigger farms with far greater capital investment. Since 1940, average investment per farm in the U.S. has increased eightfold, from $6,000 to $48,000. As a result of the combined workings of science and investment, it takes only 15 man-hours of labor to produce 100 bushels of corn in the U.S. today, as against 135 man-hours half a century...
...task of drafting a unifying platform, Nixon tapped as chairman of the ic>3-member Platform Committee a bright young nonpolitician: Charles H. Percy, 40, sometime boy wonder who became president of Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. (cameras) at 29, increased its sales eightfold and its profits elevenfold in a decade. Loyal to Nixon but leaning toward Rockefeller's liberal brand of Republicanism, "Chuck" Percy had to placate Rockefeller without angering the Old Guard, point forward into the 19605 without repudiating the Eisenhower Administration record of the 19505. Percy and Nixon hoped to accomplish all that with a brief platform...