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...There might be noncausal things in the world." He adds that it is only people with tunnel vision who "think our science will go on in a lineal, explanatory fash ion. It may be that aspects of mysticism totally outside science may come back and be incorporated within its framework." The eminent German physicist-philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker believes that such a unity already exists. At his in stitute outside Munich, he is attempting to show the essential convergence between Eastern mysticism and Western science. Gopi Krishna, an exponent of Kundalini Yoga, was his guest there for six months...
...India desires to bring about a solution to the POW issue has become increasingly clear in recent weeks. On March 31, Indian Premier Indira Ghandi told an Egyptian newspaper that "India does not want to keep the Pakistani prisoners but wants to turn them over to Pakistan within the framework of an overall settlement of problems between the two countries...
PLUMB REMAINS ON familiar grounds not only in the sense that he knows his subjects well, but also in the sense that they are topics sheltered by an ideological framework already well-explored by scholars like him. He stands before a divide, and seems aware of that. When he writes of trends in modern society, or outbursts of energy in modern times, he recognizes that they represent a breakdown of something and that the principle reason that such trends and outbursts have not produced a radically different order yet is that they posses no underlying ideology. The absence of this...
...Seven Indian leaders stripped, some naked, others to their shorts, and entered an Indian sweat lodge-a wooden framework covered by an orange carpet and a purple blanket-to receive clarity of mind and body. The warriors, perhaps 150 of them, seemed perfectly willing to die. With the sun setting behind their backs and the chill wind whipping up puffs of dust, they formed a semicircle and watched as the tribal fathers emerged from the steaming lodge...
...Kraus plan is the response to that demand, and most Union members would agree that its basic framework is an improvement over the old system. The plan ends the unstable arrangement under which graduate students would rush about at the beginning of each term to secure a teaching fellowship and thereby stave off financial disaster. The plan calculates need according to a specified formula, and promises to fund all first-and second-year graduate students to within $1000 of the calculated need. (The $1000 gap Union meetings dwindled to 20 to grants awarded in the old way by departments...