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...more intimate and profound. The first episode takes place in China, where Moyers is guided through that country's ancient medical traditions by Dr. David Eisenberg, who studied there in the 1970s. Herbalists, acupuncturists and massage therapists all tell of the mysterious mental-physical energy known as qi (pronounced chee), which pervades both mind and body and is the basis for good health...
...disparities that mark individual countries are mirrored in the planet as a whole. Most of its wealth is concentrated in the North. "The reality is that there are many worlds on this planet," says Chee Yokling, a Malaysian representative of Friends of the Earth, "rich worlds and poor worlds." From the South's point of view, it is the rich worlds' profligate consumption patterns -- their big cars, refrigerators and climate-controlled shopping malls -- that are the problem. "You can't have an environmentally healthy planet in a world that is socially unjust," says Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello. Counters...
...against Joe Camel, a raffish advertising character that has attracted teenagers to Camel cigarettes. Now furious grownups are opening new fronts in the wars for dollars and youthful minds. Incensed by plans for a Fox network cartoon series that would star Chester Cheetah, a pitchman for Frito-Lay's Chee-tos snacks, Action for Children's Television and six other groups last week asked the FCC to bar the program. While Fox said it will not show spots for Chee-tos during the series, ACT said the program itself would amount to a commercial and would violate FCC rules that...
...characters include a quirky contract killer seemingly borrowed from Elmore Leonard; and the underlying politics focuses as much on Pinochet's Chile as on the grievances of tribes whose ancestral graves are plundered for museum displays. But the deftly manipulated plot reunites Hillerman's detectives, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, lovelorn men who bury grief in stubborn pursuit of moral order. Their tracking skills and non-Anglo reasoning still prove vital to averting further crime. In place of breathtaking evocations of light and landscape, Hillerman touchingly portrays the outdoorsmen's dislocation amid subways, crowds and unneighborly indifference...
Once again, my sincere appreciation and greetings to all friends! Heng Leng Chee...