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...ancient precursor of sushi would probably be unrecognizable to the modern diner. Raw fish was packed in jars with layers of rice and fermented for weeks, like pungent cheese. These days, of course, sushi is as innocuous as a Big Mac, and just as ubiquitous. In The Zen of Fish, Trevor Corson reports that even the Wal-Mart in Plano, Texas, has its own sushi counter...
...Taiwan's National Museum of History, before embarking on a world tour that will include London's British Museum and a sweep through the U.S. The exchanges are also taking place with avant-garde productions. Taipei drumming troupe U-Theatre recently wrapped an islandwide tour of A Touch of Zen, a show about the spiritual travails of a martial artist that features kung fu masters from China's famed Shaolin Temple...
...LifeHacker is about working more efficiently so you can play more, not just get more things done," she says. Trapani's Saturdays are computer-free. "I'm a big fan of being away from the keyboard, staring into space and letting the mind wander," she says. That Zen mind-set seems to have allure: LifeHacker's readership has tripled over the past year to 15 million page views a month...
...Children are present, Nicola. Get it together. Find your Zen,” I told myself...
When I was growing up, there was a book in our house that my brother and sister and I all read. It was a very odd book, a rattlebag of art, mathematics, music, philosophy, symbolic logic, computers, genetics, paradoxes, palindromes and Zen koans among many, many other things. Most of it went way over my head--my precocious older sister, who later became a mathematician, and even later a sculptor, was the real target audience--but it was playfully written and deeply weird and off-the-charts smart and generally just the thing for a household of pretentious, alienated adolescents...