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...Gong is an amalgam of religions and exercises that Chinese have known for centuries. Practitioners meditate during a series of ritualized motions that Li Hongzhi invented. The central tenet is that Li himself, either personally or through his books and videotapes, inserts the Falun icon, a swastika-like Buddhist emblem surrounded by yin-yang symbols, into the bellies of believers. The emblem spins: clockwise to absorb energy, counterclockwise to emit it. The Faluns on people's bellies can heal diseases, or Li can heal diseases through the Faluns. An advanced practitioner will open a "celestial eye" in the middle...
...rambling dissertation, Zhuan Falun, has only added to accusations that Falun Gong is a cult. Li writes he can personally heal disease and that his followers can stop speeding cars using the powers of his teachings. He writes that the Falun Gong emblem exists in the bellies of practitioners, who can see through the celestial eyes in their foreheads. Li believes "humankind is degenerating and demons are everywhere"?extraterrestrials are everywhere, too?and that Africa boasts a 2-billion-year-old nuclear reactor. He also says...
...other designers an edge over the competition?they can intuit, to some extent, what will be popular next. It's far more an art than a science. "When I'm in Los Angeles I buy things I think are cute in used-clothing stores and change the color, size, emblem, whatever, to fit Japanese teens. I just decide what to do case by case with whatever pops into my head," Takai explains. Even firms without young designers find the traditional drawing-board-to-mock-up-to-sample-to-store-shelf cycle doesn't cut it in this industry. Tokyo girls...
...without knowing it." Just like me, you can hear him adding sotto voce. Blake could and did draw monstrous demons, but Milton's beautiful Lucifer, son of the morning, was never far from his mind. Lucifer's greatest manifestation is as the idealized Apollo-like form of Isaac Newton, emblem of the cold reason Blake abhorred as against divinely granted perception, seated naked on a rock and beginning to schematize the universe with a pair of dividers...
Last week Mississippians voted 2 to 1 to retain a state flag dominated by the rebel emblem--the last one in the South, since Georgia redesigned its flag Jan. 30. A coalition of business and civil rights leaders spent close to $700,000 arguing that the old flag insults African Americans and repels investment, but only 18 of Mississippi's 82 counties voted to change it. The reformers concluded that people just need more time to get where they're going...