Word: hui
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...when Taiwan held its first direct presidential election, China fired missiles into the strait that separates the island from the mainland in an attempt to bully voters into not supporting the independence-leaning candidate Lee Teng-hui. The act had the opposite effect and instead helped boost support for Lee; he won by a large margin. Since then Beijing has slowly been learning its lesson. "Whenever Taiwan has a big election, if Beijing makes a remark about local politics in Taiwan [it] will have a counterproductive effect," says Andrew Yang, secretary general of the Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies...
...healing. The UCLA Center for East-West Medicine, which has incorporated traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and western medicine since 1993, uses massage for most of its 14,000 or so patients each year, who come for treatment of conditions ranging from post-surgical pain to migraines. Dr. Ka-Kit Hui, the center's founder and director, says massage is safe and effective across the board, reflecting one of the core concepts of TCM: using physical methods to help stimulate the body to correct its own chemical flow. "Muscle spasm is not normal," says Hui, whether it's in a recovering...
Carducci presented his hypothesis at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association on Saturday, and notes that while his study did not include the most recent and deadliest school shooting, at Virginia Tech earlier this year, gunman Seung Hui Cho possessed 77% of the characteristics that Carducci isolated. These include social withdrawal, preoccupation with weapons and violence, anger or violence reflected in his work or journal, and hostility toward classmates and teachers...
...state panel in Virginia continues to investigate the fatal shootings at Virginia Tech, university and local mental health officials have been arguing over who's to blame for not making sure Cho Seung-Hui, the troubled student who shot and killed 32 people before killing himself on April 16, received the outpatient psychiatric treatment a judge had ordered for him in 2005. The campus massacre also prompted colleges around the country to look for weaknesses in their own mental health programs. Since then, one thing has become clear: there is widespread confusion about whether federal privacy laws prevent school mental...
Wang’s friend Rui Tang ’07 wrote in The Crimson several days later: “I have met so many people in my life, but only few stand out in my memory. Hui was one of them. He was intelligent, thoughtful, entertaining, and humble...