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...without guitars to ground it, his plaintive voice risks floating off into nasal helium. But he can still make me laugh. The best track is Gabriel in the Airport, a wicked attack on the pretensions of Peter Gabriel: "And the British Airways girls they sigh/ Saying 'There goes that Phil Collins guy.'" Listening to the French is much like listening to the indie-rock god Stephen Malkmus' solo work; it gives you a wistful yearning that his great band Pavement was still recording, but you're grateful for anything you can still get. As for Molly, the last time...
...there are plans afoot in Australia and Asia. And how will the mob project end? "Suddenly," Bill predicts, when the ideas for venues in New York wear thin. But judging by the reaction to the European ones - "I can't believe how satisfying that was," exclaimed a sweaty Phil Buckley-Mellor, 34, on his way out of the store - it looks as if we're in for an inexplicable autumn...
...corporate offices and prisons. There are specially marked meditation rooms in airports alongside the prayer chapels and Internet kiosks. Meditation was the subject of a course at West Point, the spring 2002 issue of the Harvard Law Review and a few too many locker-room speeches by Lakers coach Phil Jackson. At the Maharishi University schools in Fairfield, Iowa, which include college, high school and elementary classes, the entire elementary school student body meditates together twice daily. The Shambhala Mountain Center in the Colorado Rockies, a sprawling, gilded campus that looks like casino magnate Steve Wynn's take on Tibet...
What scientists are discovering through these studies is that with enough practice, the neurons in the brain will adapt themselves to direct activity in that frontal, concentration-oriented area of the brain. It's what samurais and kamikaze pilots are trained to do and what Phil Jackson preaches: to learn to be totally aware of the moment. "Meditation is like gasoline," says Robert Thurman, director of the Tibet House (and father of actress Uma Thurman). "In Asia meditation was a sort of a natural tool anyone could use. We should detach it from just being Buddhist...
...Corrections Our story on rock-music pioneer Phil Spector and the shooting death of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson [Feb. 17] said Spector had been charged with murder. Although Spector was arrested as part of a murder investigation, he was not formally charged with any crime...