1.   A Louisiana statute authorizing a brief period of silent meditation was also challenged by students.

2.   The statute, in addition to its provision for silent meditation, authorized teachers to ask students whether they wished to pray.

3.   Some preferred more silent meditation, some preferred more structure and were uneasy about spontaneous prayer.

4.   Charles Johnson, National Book Award-winning novelist and University of Washington professor, calls his own grace a silent meditation.

5.   He reserved judgment on specific language in a proposed amendment, and his aides have spun his remarks into a proposal for silent meditation that he never mentioned.

6.   He says he can foresee a day when entire departments gather for extended periods of silent meditation.

7.   He used to grab his popcorn and head for the mezzanine seats in the gymnasium for some silent meditation in his days as an assistant.

8.   More recent cases have involved prayer at extracurricular events like football games or questions about required periods of silent meditation.

9.   When James recently signed a bill requiring silent meditation by schoolchildren, he was heard muttering curses over an open television microphone.

10.   Gov. Pedro Rossello asked the Education Department to issue an order calling for five minutes of silent meditation at the start of each school day.