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Several students sit on the floor, round black cushions arranged in a semi-circle as they meditate in perfect silence for a half-hour in the Adams House Senior Common Room. While sounds of rehearsing choral groups waft up and into the calm room, each treasures the serene weekly moment of peace and semi-quiet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Talking Across Each Other | 4/10/1998 | See Source »

...trip up to the third floor necessitates a walk past the enticing smells of the Coop Cafe--scents that waft to a visitor's nose. The cafe is strategically located; the path up to the third floor requires a casual browser to saunter past the cold sandwiches, hot tea and fresh coffee of the cafe...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, | Title: A Fresh Look For Coop Bookstore | 12/10/1997 | See Source »

Have we all been here before? Yes, and in this lifetime too. America flirted with Buddhism in the 1950s and again in the '70s; vestiges of those dalliances still waft, pleasant yet amorphous, through the pop atmosphere. Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson applies Zen to the art of Michael maintenance, and Tina Turner and Herbie Hancock chant Buddhist mantras. Terms such as Nirvana and koan are in common usage, if seldom understood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUDDHISM IN AMERICA | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

Bill Clinton may waft on about building bridges to the 21st century, but it was Ronald Reagan who really talked the millennial talk, what with his loose chat about Evil Empires and Armageddon. Surely, the 1980s would have made a better closing decade than the relatively placid late '90s--just about any decade of this cataclysmic century would have. And maybe that's why the millennium already feels like a dud. Compared with where we've been these past hundred years, the new age seems to promise normality more than doom or utopia. Which isn't a bad thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTATOR: TURN-OFF OF THE CENTURY | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

Although olestra passes through the intestines undigested, its effect in the mouth is like that of any oil. Oils have a strong chemical affinity for the aromatic compounds that give food its taste and smell; they extract these substances, spread them around the taste buds and waft them up to odor receptors in the nose. Oils derived from plants sometimes have aromatic compounds in them to start with, which is why olive oil, for example, has a distinctive flavor. Others, such as canola oil--and now olestra--have no taste of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEALTH: ARE WE READY FOR FAT-FREE FAT? | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

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