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...WEAK LIGHT OF DAWN ONE morning last week, hundreds of Buddhist monks gathered at the Jokhang temple in Lhasa to select a new Panchen Lama, the second highest religious leader in Tibet. Traditional yak-butter lamps glowed as three ivory markers were placed inside a golden urn. Each marker was inscribed with the name of a Tibetan boy identified, during a six-year search, as a possible incarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama, who died in 1989. The urn was turned several times, and then a senior monk withdrew a marker bearing the name of Gyaincain Norbu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEMPEST IN A GOLDEN URN | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

Currently he is 30 games from breaking Art Monk's record for consecutive games with a reception, and 57 receptions away from eclipsing Monk's career mark of 934 catches...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: Rice's Record | 10/31/1995 | See Source »

...famous uncertainty principle stated that some physical events can never be accurately observed because the scientist's intrusively observing eye changes the event itself. The summer of 1995 may be remembered as the moment when Heisenberg Tourism achieved a sort of global critical mass. A few weeks ago, a monk at St. Katherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai looked gloomily at the tourists and stated the new Heisenberg principle: "They come, and everything changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I CAME, I SAW, I SPOILED EVERYTHING | 7/10/1995 | See Source »

...savior of threatened loggerhead turtles. McCall's brothers include a hermit who lives in a tree house. Friends are also conspicuously memorable: a former beauty queen who writes film scripts, the grandson of a Jewish store owner who becomes a Hollywood big shot, and a former hippie turned Trappist monk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: PAT CONROY: FIRST-PERSON PORTENTOUS | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

...said there is too much worry, too much sadness," Doan said the monk told the mourners Thursday night...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Friends, Family Remember Ho at Buddhist Funeral | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

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