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...lifetime, an approach compared by Rick Fields, author of the American Buddhist history How the Swans Came to the Lake, to climbing the sheerest face of a Himalayan cliff: demanding and perilous. Unwilling to limit themselves to the standard tools--chanting and meditative breath-control techniques--the Vajrayana Buddhists employ an eclectic mix that includes religious visualizations, philosophical debate, ritual, yoga and the energies of tantric sex. Buddhism typically took on some of the color of local faiths, but Vajrayana's incorporation of Tibet's gods and demons was especially dramatic, resulting in what Fields describes as "a baroque exuberance...
Erythropoietin is usually the drug of choice for bloodless medicine because of its stimulative effect on red-blood-cell production. Hormones and vitamin B12 are also prescribed to encourage cell production. Doctors may employ a hyperbaric chamber to flood patients' blood with higher concentrations of oxygen so that they can better withstand surgical procedures and low blood levels, while oximetry devices and other noninvasive monitoring equipment keep close watch over oxygen levels...
More than half of China's 125,000 state industries are hamstrung by outmoded management. Though the factories employ 110 million workers, they can barely pay them, and while these businesses soak up 90% of loans from state banks, they account for only a third of China's total industrial output. But Beijing has always been afraid of the social turmoil that could be unleashed if millions of those workers were dismissed...
...manager said that the new restaurant would employ approximately 240 people. "We're in the hiring process right now," he said. "In total we'll have about 90 servers...
...normal life. Though she used official bodyguards at public events or when she was with her sons, she preferred to move around on her own. On the night of her death, Diana was entirely in the safekeeping of the Fayeds. She was not represented by anyone in her own employ, someone who might have raised objections to the arrangements being made to drive her away from the hotel...