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...SENTENCED. KIM DAE-HAN, 56, who started a fire on a South Korean subway that killed 198 people in February, to life in prison; in Daegu. The court said Kim, who has a history of mental illness, appeared to be unstable when he ignited a container filled with gasoline in a botched suicide attempt...
...four times the rate of the nonmeditators. In another study, conducted with Wisconsin's Richard Davidson, Kabat-Zinn gave a group of newly taught meditators and nonmeditators flu shots and measured the antibody levels in their blood. Researchers also measured their brain activity to see how much the meditators' mental activity shifted from the right brain to the left. Not only did the meditators have more antibodies at both four weeks and eight weeks after the shots, but the people whose activity shifted the most had even more antibodies. The better your meditation technique, Kabat-Zinn suggests, the healthier your...
VISUALIZATION Generates a mental image, from simple crosses or a single square of color to complex symbols such as the elaborate mandalas of Tibetan Buddhism...
...France. A French judge last week launched legal action against Stéphane Jousse, 30, after he admitted to starting seven fires near Draguignan in July - though not the ones that raged last week - and two others last summer. Described by a prosecutor as "an individual of fragile mental state" who wasn't fully aware of the consequences of his actions, the municipal employee reportedly acted out of spite because his application to join a local volunteer fire brigade was rejected last year. The mayor of Fréjus launched a separate inquiry after three bottles with wicks in them...
...They’ll be more vibrant in their mental acuity, in their accomplishments, and they’re going to be very restive about being resigned to the scrap heap, about being put off to the side as extra baggage or detritus,” he says. “They’re going to be looking at things like this...