Word: hares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After dumping my Adidas on one of the many shelves, I hopped through the icy foyer into the warm, incensed air of the Krishna center. I was late, and an enthusiastic vocal mishmash of "Hare Hare'' was already pouring from the ceremony room. Parquet floors and velvet-tinsel wallpaper surrounded a gleaming swirl of wooden staircases and crystal chandeliers --it seemed more like a British bed'n'breakfast than an eastern temple, and my brain-washing scenario faded in the face of architectural banality...
...Prabhupada left India to spread his spiritual message in the West. He arrived in America with about $8 in his pocket, one devotee says, but with complete faith that he would succeed in his mission. Twelve years later, Prabhupada had 10,000 western disciples. Today, there are 1000-2000 Hare Krishnas--or Vaishnavas, as they call themselves--in the Boston area...
ASTORY THAT is "completely false and completely true." It sounds like the kind of paradox that the Mad Hatter and the March Hare might fling at poor Alice as she sits with them at the tea table, minding her manners. "Tell us a story that is completely false and completely true...
...example of the manpower problem is the situation at the Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center in Aurora, Ill., which handles an airspace that includes O'Hare, one of the world's busiest airports. On paper, the center has more controllers than its authorized strength of 350. But only 183 have reached full-performance-level status. Where it was once standard for controllers to be at their positions for only four of the eight hours in a shift, the norm at Aurora is now six. Coupled with mandatory overtime, this pace, contends one Aurora controller, "is burning most...
...mechanic at O'Hare found a damaged duct on a DC-9's engine in April and reported to his supervisor that it would pose a fire hazard if the engine overheated. The supervisor nonetheless cleared the aircraft to take off for Pittsburgh. The horrified mechanic called FAA but could not reach an official before the plane left Chicago. In Pittsburgh, FAA grounded the aircraft while the engine was replaced. The pilot had not been warned that he was flying with a potential fire problem...