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"An example of the ideal person in Zen is a person who climbs up a mountain to get a spoonful of snow and then climbs back down to put the snow in an empty well and continues to do this with the hope of filling the well," Glassman said.

Author: By Robin Kolodny, | Title: Zen Abbot Calls for Social Action | 11/14/1991 | See Source »

According to the suit, Jenks told her patient, who had undergone more than 50 operations, "You cannot be at the mercy of your body any longer." In 1986 she allegedly advised Isaacson to take an overdose of cardiac medicines, which resulted in a coma. The next year Jenks allegedly emptied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psychiatry: To Live or Die In New York | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

Danko and Butterfield definitely seemed like throwbacks, but as much to the Old West as to the Late Sixties. I felt like I was sitting round the campfire listening to a couple of ex-hippy pioneers who got the blues during New Orleans' Mardi-Gras--and stayed drunk ever since...

Author: By Tom Reiss, | Title: Reviving the Buddha | 5/15/1987 | See Source »

"Budget day" in Parliament is always tinged with politics, a time when the government's Chancellor of the Exchequer tries to sweeten his economic plan for the coming year with at least a spoonful of sugar. But last week, when Chancellor Nigel Lawson arrived at the House of Commons with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Sugar Bowls and Election Fever | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

Middle-class baby boomers are overtaking the rich and elderly as the primary clients. Typically, 25 years ago, three-quarters of the customers were the wives of executives. Now half the women guests are themselves high up on the corporate ladder. They can afford the steep tariff, generally $1,500...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Shake a Leg, Mrs. Plushbottom | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

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