Word: lotuses
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...malpractice. Just as you are absorbing that dark bit of news, a third doctor breezes in to assure you once again that you're safe from cancer--but you will contract a fatal illness of some kind at some point soon. Before long, you'd be sitting in the lotus position in a hut drinking green tea, having fled Western medicine forever...
...gems like "follow the path of truth" while dressed in a fresh Versace outfit. Employees then had to write reviews of that day's performance. Ogami read these diligently, and had underlings seek out authors of bad reviews for scoldings. Workers were made to sit in rivers in the lotus position and stand in the rain shouting Ogami's commandments. He took the stage on these outings, rambling for hours about the Japanese spirit and the country's honorable role in World War II. "We all shut up and stuck it out because we needed the salary," sighs Toshinori Nakajima...
...waterfalls. At the top, where Jayavarman II chose to bathe, he again had the river diverted so that the stone bed could be carved with an elaborate rendering of the Hindu god Vishnu. Vishnu is laying on the serpent Ananta, with his wife Lakshmi at his feet and a lotus flower protrudes from his navel bearing the god Brahma. Visitors can walk into the water to take pictures but are instructed not to touch the underwater carvings...
...street, 42-year-old Bangkok accountant Suntorn Sukanand explains why, as he loads jumbo packs of instant noodles, fish sauce and Thai beer into his cart at Tesco Lotus. "I stop at the local shops only when I have forgotten to buy something in the superstore," he says. "It's clean, and it's cold." Says Bangkok housewife Sunee Veerachai: "I can get everything I need here in one trip on Saturday. Besides, the kids like this place...
...that Tesco's Thai stores may have been attacked by Mafia-like cartels he says control the flow of goods in the country. (Thai police have made no arrests and the cases are unsolved.) Foreign superstores "upset the whole chain of distribution of commodities in Thailand," Muller says. Tesco Lotus officials declined to comment...