Word: acupuncturist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sports radio talk-show host b) acupuncturist c) organ grinder d) mime...
...course, they don't know why. For Western scientists, the mystery is that the acupuncturist's supposed "life force meridians" on the body conforms to no biological systems that they know of. And it worries some that the cause of the discomfort is not addressed, just the discomfort itself ? rather like taking an asprin to dull your headache...
Following graduation, he set up shop as an acupuncturist-first in Kumamoto, then Tokyo and finally in a rented room in Funabashi. He married a college student, Tomoko Ishii, in 1978, then opened an apothecary specializing in traditional Chinese medicaments. A turning point in his life appears to have occurred in 1982, when he was arrested for selling fake cures. Authorities detained him for 20 days and fined him 200,000 yen--about $800 at that time. The business went bankrupt, and Asahara was reputedly shattered by the incident. Out of shame at what neighbors thought, for some time afterward...
...shelter] will bring drugs, cocaine into the neighborhood. We sacrifice, they bring that into our backyard," says Dr. Won K. Pak, an acupuncturist in Central Square and a 20-year resident of the neighborhood...
...Wales, and a male friend on New Year's Eve 1989. He calls her "Squidgy" and repeats, "I love you, I love you." She mentions the "torture" of her marriage and agrees to a meeting with her phone partner "next Tuesday," under guise of a visit to her acupuncturist. True? Who cares, when 40,000 Britons paid $22 each on the first day to call a special phone line and listen to the tape? Three days after this bombshell, the Sun, Britain's raciest tabloid, announced it possessed another juicy phone transcript, this one of a conversation between Fergie...