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...manipulation, for physical and spiritual betterment, of circles of internal energy called qi. Suddenly, however, conversation veered to a topic Li has thus far broached to none but his inner circle: aliens on earth. "One type of alien looks like a human but has a nose made of a bone," he confided; others resemble ghosts. The extraterrestrials, who arrived circa 1900, have not been idle. "Everyone thinks that scientists invent on their own," said Li, "when in fact their inspiration is manipulated by the aliens." The aliens intend to replace all humans with clones, he added. "In terms of culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man with the Qi | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...SHINE Vitamin D may be even more important than we knew for keeping women's bones strong. A new study shows that 50% of females with hip fractures are D-deficient. The vitamin not only helps the body absorb calcium, but it's now thought to play a critical role in bone repair. What to do: load up on fortified milk and cereal--and get some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: May 10, 1999 | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...started to run, yelling to others to come with him. One girl pleaded for help. "She had a chunk of her shoulder blown off with a shotgun," Craig said. "And I helped her get out. She was bleeding all over the place, and her--her bone was showing." They got out of the library, out to an exit, down to the cops, where Craig told them what the shooters looked like, where they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Littleton Massacre: ...In Sorrow And Disbelief | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...much from this show. In any case, it bears only the slightest proportional relation to the bewildering and dense variety of works of art that are to be seen in the whole fabric of San Francesco--about the same ratio, you might say, that a crumb of saint's bone in one of its reliquaries does to the whole body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From Assisi's Treasury | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...Europe, the food fight between the two continental trade giants continues. On Monday, beef was once again served up on the table of disputes as a May 13 deadline approaches for the European Union to lift its ban on hormone-treated beef from the U.S. The latest bone of contention: a report from European Union scientific experts stating that one of six typically used hormones used "has an inherent risk of causing cancer." The response from the U.S. side: baloney. "This is part of a struggle that has been going on for a decade," observes TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: European Report Slices Up Beefed-Up U.S. Beef | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

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