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...basically proved that meditators are really, really focused. In India a researcher named B.K. Anand found that yogis could meditate themselves into trances so deep that they didn't react when hot test tubes were pressed against their arms. In Japan a scientist named T. Hirai showed that Zen meditators were so focused on the moment that they never habituated themselves to the sound of a ticking clock (most people eventually block out the noise, but the meditators kept hearing it for hours). Another study showed that master meditators, unlike marksmen, don't flinch at the sound of a gunshot...
Sony won't explain what went wrong. Sony Computer Entertainment president Kazuo Hirai will say only that PlayStation2 is a "very complex machine that requires a lot of components." But the guessing in Japan is that the company botched the production of graphics chips. Skeptics in the gaming community are flooding the Internet with charges that Sony has created an artificial shortage in a calculated attempt to make PS2 this year's Furby, the gotta-have-it toy of the holiday season. But Sony says it isn't so. "It's absolutely ridiculous to suggest that by limiting our audience...
...There's a lot of tension between the interests of students and interests of non-students," Publishing Manager Mark Selwyn '90 said. HSA student directors Gina L. Berardi '89, Akira Hirai '89 and Andrea Piperakis '89 organized the drive...
There is little room left in the local market for HSA to expand its 11 agencies, says Akira Hirai '89, who recently ended his term as sales manager for the extremely successful Let's Go travel guides as well as the Unofficial Guide to Student Life at Harvard. Hirai points to this fact as an explanation for the decline in innovation...
...same time, the freshmen downed the Williams freshmen, 7 to 2, with both losses five-game defeats. Tony Lake at number one, won 3 to 1, while Pete Smith at number three, Ranny Hobbes at number four, and Tosi Hirai at number nine all scored 3 to 0 wins...