Word: tai
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Observations of apes in the wild provide further insights. In the Tai forest in the Ivory Coast, Swiss biologist Christophe Boesch points out a flat piece of granite with two small hollows on the top. The rock has marks from heavy use for some purpose. "If an anthropologist came upon this in the forest," says Boesch, "he might think he had found a human artifact." Instead, it is used by chimpanzees for nut cracking. The chimps place a panda nut in one of the depressions and then smash it with a smaller stone. Boesch has watched a mother chimp instruct...
Reflections '93 also included a Tai Chi performance that was sponsored by AAA, the Chinese Wushu Research Institute and internationally renowned Master Bow Sim Mark...
...Chinese Students Association will present a performance of the martial art Tai Chi in Sanders Theater...
...roommate put up a Bush-Quayle sign and the rest of us, who are more liberal, decided to put up the `Not!' sign. We finally convinced the people above us and our proctor downstairs to put up `Not!' signs also," said Tai U. Truong '96, a Clinton supporter in the controversial suite...
Everyone remembers the classic Olympic moments--Nadia Comaneci's perfect 10, the U.S. ice hockey team's victory at Lake Placid, tai Babylonia and Randy Gardiner unable to skate. The Olympics represent the pinnacle of human athletic endeavor: Great talent, hard work, good sportspersonship...