Word: taekwondo
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...perfect television-anchor talk, one of those serviceable voices from nowhere. She is a slim, freckled redhead with blue eyes and tight little muscles at the corners of a big smile. She dresses for success, has two kids at home, and holds a yellow belt with green tips in Taekwondo. The license plate on her car says I CAN, and she is inclined to say things like "Y'all can too." (She notes that her parents originally came from east Tennessee, and the occasional Southernism makes clients more comfortable...
...concentrated on waging terrorist attacks against South Korea, but they have also managed to train 2,000 guerrillas from 25 countries; 700 foreign rebels are now believed to be in residence in ten special camps. Training lasts from six to 18 months. Foreigners as well as Koreans are taught taekwondo, the local version of judo and karate, and are put through such rigorous training as running five hours at night, sometimes through rough mountain terrain, shouldering 100-lb. sandbags. "Running, running, running," in fact, is the training slogan...