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...modern society's relentless pursuit of physical fitness, we risk forgetting a crucial factor: mental well-being. Our grandparents lived healthier lives not just because they sweated more than we do but also because they fretted less. Technology helps us get more done in the least possible time, but today's lifestyles mean frazzled nerves for most of us. Unless we work simultaneously toward greater peace of mind, physical fitness alone will be an empty Nirvana. The ancient dictum of a "sound mind in a sound body" has never been more relevant. M. Venkata Krishnan Madras, India...
...conference room. THE JUSTICES ARE LEFT ALONE TO ARGUE THE LAW, THEIR PRINCIPLES, THEIR CONSCIENCES. Theirs is not an abstract debate: comfortably hazy concepts like 'liberty' and 'equality' must be applied to urgent social and moral dilemmas?abortion, the death penalty, obscenity, busing, reverse discrimination. The conferences provide a relentless test of conviction and reason; shallowness and bluffing are not long concealed. 'It is like being naked in a steam bath,' Justice Felix Frankfurter once remarked. 'You are totally exposed...
...last links to that changeless way of life, some making contact with the outside world for the first time last century; and there are many for whom the traditions of their ancestors are vibrantly alive. Yet in the cultural tug-of-war, the pull of modernity is powerful and relentless, and though some dig in their heels, the ties to tradition are beginning to fray...
...Taiwan's electronics makers thrive in anonymity, however. The relentless decline in tech hardware prices is putting pressure on the bottom line?profit margins on a Taiwan-made notebook PC, for example, have fallen by half, to 5%, over the past three years. Caught in the big squeeze, Taiwan's tech companies "can't just fly under the radar anymore," says Flint Pulskamp, an electronics analyst at consulting firm IDC in San Mateo, California. "If they're going to survive, they need to step out and get recognition for their brands...
García has been less surefooted in dealing with the relentless but ragtag Shining Path insurgency, which has killed more than 6,000 in five years. To weaken the rebels, he has promised new economic aid to the poverty-stricken Andean region where they are based, and created a Peace Commission to establish a dialogue with their leaders. Though it is by no means clear that government programs are responsible, military officials last week reported "a certain tranquillity" in the eleven-province emergency zone in which the guerrillas are most active...