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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, July 14, 1999
Finns find nirvana luxuriating in sauna
The Associated Press
HELSINKI, Finland — A sauna is far more than just a hot room. For Finns, it's a place of birth and of death and of many of the happiest hours in between.
Tourists preparing to sample the essential Finnish experience may wonder about how long to stay in the sauna and whether to cover their nethers with a towel or to bare all. Those concerns, however, are just distractions. The sauna is not about form, but about feeling.
Finnns probably didn't invent the sweatbath, but they developed a strong attachment to the practice. Surveys indicate that 90 percent of Finnns go at least once a week, and there are an estimated 2 million saunas in a country of just 5 million people.
Former President Urho Kekkonen, trying to explain why the sauna gripped Finns' souls, wrote: "Finland has a rugged climate and soil, a people of dour temperament. They long for variety and warmth."
It is so important to their lives that the sauna is often the first structure put up by Finnish peacekeeping forces when they build a new base. As the warmest and cleanest place on homesteads, the sauna was commonly used for giving birth and for breathing one's last — practical measures that increased the sauna's emotional significance.
Today, the sauna attracts substantial scientific interest. Why does loiling in a room heated to upward of 90 C (195 F) followed by a plunge into snow or frigid water make one feel so good?
"You cannot explain it by any physical measures. It's not only physics, but it's mystery," said Lasse Vimikla, a doctor who heads the Finnish Sauna Society.
For neophytes, Vlinikha has some suggestions about how to get the full suna experience. The first principle is allowing for time — plan on 90 minutes to two hours.
Not all of that time is spent in the heat. The pleasure of the sauna comes not from the sweating itself but from heating up and cooling down, Viinikka said. He recommends spending 10 minutes in the sauna, followed by 10 minutes of cooling off, repeating the cycle three times.
Then comes the frigid final cool down, the phase that intimides the newcomer but caps the experience for the veteran. It can be a cold shower or a roll in the snow, but what most devotes like best is a dip in the sea or a lake, preferably if there's some ice
But contrary to common image, it's not a good idea to dive right in to ice water from the sauna, Vilinika said. That's a potential overload for one's heart. The best way is to walk into the water — very quickly, so you don't chicken out halfway through.
The aftermath is what everyone adores: a
perfect yin-vang balance of alertness and relaxation. Most sauna-goers like to luxuriate in the feeling by sitting around for a half-hour or so with a beer, some snacks and philosophical conversation.
Finding a sauna can be a bit difficult for a tourist who doesn't have Finnish friends to invite him to their home sauna. As Finland has become prosperous and more Finns have saunas at home, the public sauna has gone into decline. Only two remain in Helsinki, where there were once scores.
The Finnish Sauna Society, although a private organization, usually allows non-members to come to its facilities as guests if it's not a busy day.
The idyllic surroundings and the huge fireplace in the after-sauna room make this a perfect place for a visitor to enjoy sauna to its fullest. That is, unless one requires the presence of the opposite sex for full enjoyment. The society has separate days for men and women.
Which underlines another important aspect of Finns' attitude about sauna: Although the participants are naked, the sauna isn't a sexually charged environment.
Nor, says Viimika, should the sauma be a placed charged with other sorts of folly.
"We respect the sauna," he said. "It's a holy place, so we keep silent there ... or at least, you should not argue in it."
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices are nine smart men and women. But when it comes to writing, there's not a Shakespeare, a Hemingway or even a John Grisham among them.
The Associated Press
Justices' decisions beyond boring
"Trying to pick between the justices in majority opinion writing is rather like asking me whether I prefer Miracle Whip or mayonnaise," said Charles Geyh, Indiana University law professor. "You will rarely see what I regard as good writing in Supreme Court opinions."
Consider this gem, by Justice Antonin Scalia, in a January decision involving the Federal Communications Commission's regulation of local telephone business:
"Respondents argue that avoiding this pari passu expansion of commission jurisdiction with expansion of the substantive scope of the act was the reason the 'nothing shall be construed' provision was framed in the alternative: 'nothing in this act shall be construed to apply or to give the commission jurisdiction' (emphasis added) with respect to the forbidden subjects."
Got that?
The nation's highest court does not allow television coverage of its decision announcements. The justices speak through their writing.
The decisions are not intended to be great literature, said Douglas Kmiec, Pepperdine University law professor.
A Supreme Court opinion is supposed to explain a ruling to the people involved in the case, as well as to the public and lower courts that apply the opinion in future cases.
Decisions can top 100 pages, counting the majority and dissenting opinions.
"You can skim if you have to," suggests Michael Dorf, a Columbia University law professor who once clerked for Justice Anthony K. Kennedy.
Dorf credit Justice Clarence Thomas with the closest thing to moving rhetoric. Writing in a Chicago gang case, Thomas dissented from Justice John Paul Stevens' major opinion that threw out an anti-littering law.
The people who will be harmed by the ruling, are "people who have seen their neighborhoods literally destroyed by gangs and violence and drugs. They are good, decent people who must struggle to overcome their desperate situation, against all odds, in order to raise their families," Thomas said.
By focusing on gang members' rights, Thomas wrote, the court today has denied our most vulnerable citizens the very thing that Justice Stevens elevates above all else — the 'freedom of movement.' And that is a shame.
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