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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON DECK | 11/13/1992 | See Source »

Zazen, the act of meditation, is the most obvious characteristic of the Zen sect. It is not as initially calm and comfortable as monks make it look. Even the little pillows we squash under our squatting hinds can't alleviate the aches and numbness of 45 minutes of physical inactivity. Seigan, a monk from Brooklyn, NY, graced our buttbones with a special hint on how to fold the pillows just right, so that I could be content in my almost-Lotus position for a good 20 minutes before my sparkling clear concentration began to drift below...

Author: By M.k. Hoffman, | Title: Endpaper | 11/12/1992 | See Source »

...Women's Squash at Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON DECK | 11/12/1992 | See Source »

...ambassador insisted that neither he nor Cantoni had meant to interfere with the investigation. Said Secchia: "Taking it to a 'political level' meant that it should go to the Cabinet level. Taking it to a political level doesn't mean take it to a higher level so they can squash it. It means taking it to a higher level that will understand how damaging this can be to the Italian- American relationship. That's how Cantoni intended it. In my 3 1/2 years here, not once did anyone pressure me or ask me to do anything other than what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lone Wolf Or a Pack of Lies? | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

Society was also growing more complex in Mexico and Central America, but it was at its most elaborate in parts of South America. Settlers in the Ayacucho region of the Andes had domesticated guinea pigs and llamas by the time Iceman lived, and farmed potatoes, squash, beans and corn. Along the coastal desert of what is now northern Chile, the Chinchorro used woven fishing nets and hooks made of cactus thorns, shell and bone to harvest a rich diet from the sea. The Chinchorro, who were savvy hunters, developed elaborate mummification techniques some 2,500 years before the Egyptians, probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World in 3300 B.C. | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

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