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...which also manufactured aircraft engines - went into receivership in 1971, the auto and aerospace units became separate companies. After a variety of owners, BMW took over and now builds the cars at a plant in Sussex. A low-rise, energy-efficient facility, it currently operates one line and one shift that turn out four to five handbuilt cars a day. The 550 employees include craftsmen - skilled cabinet and saddle makers, for example. Most Rolls sold are bespoke; on average customers pay an extra $20,000 to have a car customized. The company is adding a second line next year...
...senior group as a whole—it is their team. We just have the titles.”Having spent the majority of her rowing career on the Charles and participated in the Head of the Charles for five of the past six years, Laursen-Strecker recalls the shift from high school to collegiate crew, recognizing it as a contrast in terms of training and technical focus on the water. “In high school, [the Head of the Charles] was the culmination of all the training prior to the race,” Larsen-Strecker says...
...Rodger Kamenetz helped shift the spiritual center of liberal Judaism. His book The Jew in the Lotus combined the chronicle of a delegation of Jews visiting the Dalai Lama with an investigation into the possibilities for meditative mysticism in a Jewish context. The avid curiosity it provoked helped launch a thousand Kabbalah classes. Kamenetz's follow-up, Stalking Elijah: Adventures with Today's Jewish Mystical Masters, won the National Jewish Book Award. But his latest offering, The History of Last Night's Dream, diverges in content and tone. TIME's David Van Biema wondered whether he was straying from...
TIME: Your best known books might be called participatory spiritual journalism. You were a searcher but you maintained a certain objective distance from the material. But you describe your own experiences as an apprentice teacher of Bregman's method and talk of "we" rather than "they." Given this shift, do you think you could go back to writing the other kind of book again...
...behave awake, making better choices as you begin to recreate the kind of relationships that evolve in your dreams. In my case, one aspect was learning how to be a student. I've been teaching for 27 years, and do you know how hard it is to shift from thinking you're the teacher in every damn moment to realizing that you can be the student? That came out of my dreamwork, and students have come up to me and said, "Gee, you're a much better teacher...