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...fear that by bringing attention to meditation, your story might be taken by hard-driving overachievers as a more spiritually correct way to acquire fame, fortune and real estate--or just another fad to talk about over cocktails. HARVEY B. USSACH New Bedford, Mass...
...warden at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York agreed to turn off the lights in the exercise yard, it might have been possible to see a galaxy. But turning off the lights is not something you do at a maximum-security prison. So the 18 students in the inmate astronomy class--who were getting their first chance to peek through a telescope at the impossibly open sky above them--had to content themselves with the moon and Saturn...
...Bedford crowd is not alone in its enchantment with the cosmos. In recent years an odd sort of celestial rapture has spread across the country. Whether it's driven by a longing for a larger world, for post-9/11 meaning or simply for the pleasure of a silent field beneath a riotous sky, more and more Americans are falling in love with the heavens. There's Erica Block, 15, of Lincoln, Neb., who sold her horse and emptied her bank account to buy a $1,000 telescope that, she boasts, is taller than she is. There's Evan Chan...
...financial worries and guilty infidelities group Ramchandra with literature's familiar middle-class husbands. Upadhyay's detached descriptions of Kathmandu are rinsed of the exotic, adding to the sense that he is treading on familiar ground. Still, we never forget that Ramchandra and Malati are in Nepal, not New Bedford. Their first fumbling attempt at a tryst, in a city park, is interrupted by a horde of rampaging monkeys. Not the kind of thing that happens to adulterers in John Cheever's work...
...service in memory of Andrew Dwyer was held yesterday in Bedford...