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Into the Zendo. The day at Tassajara begins at 4:40 a.m. with the sound of a tinkling hand bell and the han-a length of ash planking that is struck with a wooden mallet. Students must report to the zendo (meditation hall) by 5. As each person enters the zendo, he bows to the platform that holds the Buddha, burning incense, the roshi and Zen priests. After removing his shoes, the student arranges his zafu (black cushion), adopts the lotus position, and meditates for 40 minutes...
Those entered in tomorrow's events will be unable to compete in Harvard's dual meet at Dartmouth, also tomorrow afternoon, and McCurdy is slightly worried about being undermanned in Han-over. "We should be strong enough to win anyway," he said...
Beyond the Great Wall. During the Han Dynasty, there lived an Emperor named Yuan Ti with a harem as big as all the Playboy clubs. He tried manfully to give all his wives the personal touch, but there were so many he never got around to meeting them all. To remedy the situation, his highness had a court painter limn pictures of the girls, then present the likenesses to him. Those that passed the silk-screen test got to play the palace...
Lunar Bombardment. Writing in Nature, Physicist Kuan-Han Sun suggests that a combination of the solar wind, meteorites, and lunar temperature changes provide ideal conditions for thermoluminescence-the release of stored-up energy in the form of visible light during a rapid temperature rise. Like other bodies in the solar system, Sun points out, the moon is constantly bombarded by a solar wind consisting of charged, low-energy particles boiled off the solar surface and "blown" into space. Because these particles, which are mostly protons, follow magnetic lines of force, they can strike the moon from all directions, hitting...
Hardin himself is an excellent miler. He han a 4:18 mile last year on the freshman track team, where he ran two miles also...