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...Yoga was little known in the U.S. - perhaps only as an enthusiasm of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and other icons of the Beat Generation - when the Beatles and Mia Farrow journeyed to India to sit at the feet of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968. Since then, yoga has endured more evolutions of popular consciousness than a morphing movie monster. First it signaled spiritual cleansing and rebirth, a nontoxic way to get high. Then it was seen as a kind of preventive medicine that helped manage and reduce stress. "The third wave was the fitness wave," says Richard Faulds, president...
...MCTAGGART, 69, who co-founded the environmental pressure group Greenpeace and built it into a worldwide movement, killed in a car crash; in Castiglione del Lago, Italy. DIED. WILLIAM HANNA, 90, animation pioneer whose 50-year partnership with Joseph Barbera produced such well-loved cartoons as Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear and The Flintstones and won the pair seven Oscars; in Hollywood. DIED. GORDON BROWN, 53, Scottish rugby forward who won 30 caps and played in some of the British Lions' most memorable tours, of cancer; in Ayr, Scotland. CONVICTED. YITZHAK MORDECHAI, 55, former Israeli Defense Minister and ex-general...
...Yogi Berra said it's not over 'til it's over. Well, it's over," said Florida's Secretary of Agriculture Bob Crawford...
...will is our peace), wrote Dante of the joys of heaven, where all choice is excluded by contemplation of the Divine: perfect obedience, perfect happiness, no worries. For God, substitute adepts, the People, the Charismatic Leader, or any one of a number of beguiling gurus, from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to Jim Jones with his refreshing drafts of Kool-Aid in distant, steamy Guyana. The Utopian state of mind indicates a yearning to be released from history, to shed the burdens of free will, failure, improvisation...
...York Highlanders. I'm talking about guys like Lou Gehrig, a native New Yorker who played 2,130 consecutive games at first base for the Yankees, and Babe Ruth, who hit most of his 714 home runs in the House that Ruth himself Built. Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto, Whitey Ford--all Yankee legends...