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...paper doors between you and the next snoring pilgrim are the norm. But others can be surprisingly refined, with delicate flower arrangements, swirling calligraphy on the walls and views of carp ponds. Bathrooms and toilet facilities are typically communal. So are morning prayers. To rise at dawn for an hour-long ceremony may not be everyone's path to enlightenment, but guests are expected to attend. For good measure, some temples offer classes in meditation, calligraphy, flower arranging and vegetarian cooking. Opportunities to sample the latter, in fact, are typically the highlights of any shukubo stay. Known as shojin-ryori...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Heavenly Night's Rest | 10/10/2006 | See Source »

Within an hour Grisham had placed calls to his agent, to his publisher and to Annette Hudson and Renee Simmons, Williamson's sisters, who at first assumed it was a prank call. They realized he was serious when he got them a lawyer and bought the exclusive rights to their brother's story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grisham's New Pitch | 10/9/2006 | See Source »

...exciting [that] we fought off so many match points,” Harvard coach Gordon Graham said. “The intensity level over the last half an hour was pretty amazing. It was one of the more exciting matches I have seen in a very long time...

Author: By Julia R. Senior, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pair Challenges Deep into Third Set of Final | 10/9/2006 | See Source »

...having Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michaels as executive producer? It's great. He has all this experience with comedy, and he doesn't have any bad habits or fears about the half-hour show. No one's going to make us adopt a little black kid if the ratings start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 16, 2006 | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

...Band-Aids in our welcome gift bag made us feel tough, but a lot more drinking than working goes on at Crush Camp. We stopped picking grapes after about an hour and raked grapes from bins into a crusher only long enough to pose for pictures. It took all of 10 minutes for us to take turns punching down a cap of skins into a small batch of Malbec with our hands, during which three of my campmates somehow refrained from making an I Love Lucy joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: I Love Wine Camp | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

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