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...reversed the buildup of plaque in coronary arteries. Last April, at a meeting of the American Urological Association, he announced his most recent findings that meditation may slow prostate cancer. While his results were interesting, it's important to note that those patients were also dieting and doing yoga. Jon Kabat-Zinn, who studied Buddhism in the '60s and founded the Stress Reduction Clinic at the UMass Medical Center in 1979, has been trying to find a more scientific demonstration of the healing power of meditation. Over the years, he has helped more than 14,000 people manage their pain...
Wherever You Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn...
...Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee, has been a sellout hit at the National Theatre since April and will transfer to the West End in October. Negotiations are under way for a Broadway production, which could arrive as early as next spring. A movie deal is already cooking. Co-producer Jon Thoday predicts that within three years there "should be 15 productions playing around the world at any one time." And people used to complain about Cats...
...Died. John Schlesinger, 77, Oscar-winning British director famous for edgy dramas examining human frailty; in Palm Springs, California. Schlesinger is best known for his gritty 1969 film Midnight Cowboy, which starred Dustin Hoffman as an ailing con man and Jon Voight as the naive cowboy of the title who becomes a gigolo to survive in New York City. Schlesinger's 1976 thriller Marathon Man, about a college student on the run from a former Nazi, also featured Hoffman. He said of the director: "Shakespeare said it best in Hamlet, 'We will never see the likes of him again...
...behalf of ETA, police evacuated more than 100 staff and guests from the hotels. Four policemen were wounded in the Benidorm attack, while the nine injured in Alicante were mainly foreign students and their teachers at an adjacent language school. Police named their main suspect in these incidents as Jon Joseba Troitiño, 23, who they believe booked rooms in the two hotels and left a bag containing explosives in each. Interior Minister Angel Acebes said that the terrorists had deliberately given the wrong time in the warning. The third bomb went off outside a courtroom...