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...knew it couldn’t have been for the reactions. The last thing I ever want to deal with is the slings and arrows of others—although I admit I do like seeing little wrinkled old women get up and pick another seat on the train when I sit down near them...
...think as I walk down the street towards the famous Grotto, one of the world’s most visited Catholic pilgrimage sites, where in the mid-19th century St. Bernadette is said to have had a vision of the Virgin. After a restless overnight train, I am armed with my notebook and my Let’s Go press pass, ready to be fascinated, repelled and intrigued. I’m not ready...
...Continent's sweltering citizens. Forecasters predicted the hot weather - blamed on strong rains in sub-Saharan Africa - would continue to the middle of the month at least, and possibly into September. With temperatures regularly nudging - and, in some places, exceeding - 40°C, Europeans faced renewed misery. Train tracks buckled, hundreds of thousands of farm animals died and crops either wilted in the heat or ripened prematurely. Although the fires that ravaged countries from Portugal to Poland were brought largely under control, the cost of the heatwave mounted. The death toll - from both the fires and heat exhaustion - reached...
...MBTA is now considering two bids—one from Lesley University and one from Oak Tree Developers—both of which would involve the construction of housing above the train tracks...
...methods have become more streamlined. There's less incense burning today, but there remains a nugget of Buddhist philosophy: the belief that by sitting in silence for 10 minutes to 40 minutes a day and actively concentrating on a breath or a word or an image, you can train yourself to focus on the present over the past and the future, transcending reality by fully accepting it. In its most modern, Americanized forms, it has dropped the creepy mantra bit that has you memorize a secret phrase or syllable; instead you focus on a sound or on your breathing...