Word: tai
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...values. The creed most successful in filling it since "freedom of religion" was announced in 1979 has been Buddhism. But others, from illegal Christian "house churches" to witchery, have also flourished. Falun Gong is a variant of Qi Gong, a blend of mind and body work (it also includes Tai Chi) that strives to harness an energy called qi. Qi Gong does not always rise to the intensity of faith, but charismatic "grand masters" have built up formidable followings on its principles...
...have loved oysters at 7 in the morning in the teachers' lounge with Mme. Lutz and the halls that smelled like rotting Easter eggs," she wrote. "I have loved fire drills and Tai Chi on the lawn with Mr. Kritzer's philosophy class. I have loved you and our moments of folly together...We're all looking for passion, for something, anything, in our lives." And she wondered how to capture the spirit, "the humanity and integrity that walk the halls of our very own Columbine...
What sounds like a toilet cleaner, tae-bo is a martial arts aerobic hybrid workout sweeping the country and has even spawned copycat scam workout Tai...
Chen studied filmmaking at California State University at Northridge and then--lightning strikes again--was seen crossing a parking lot by mogul Dino De Laurentiis. Instantly she had the lead Asian role in his 1985 TV saga Tai-Pan. For more than a decade, Chen was excellent in good movies and amusing in bad ones. In Stanley Kwan's Red Rose, White Rose she is a figure of eros and pathos, driving her lover quietly nuts with her desperate vitality; the turn won her a Hong Kong Film Critics award. Back in the West, she copped a less prestigious prize...
...fact, there may have been an evolutionary advantage to sluttiness. The females of our closest primate relatives, the chimpanzees and the bonobos, are not exactly paragons of sexual probity. A recent DNA study of chimp behavior in the Tai forest of Africa's Ivory Coast showed that despite the bullying of local males, the wily females were sneaking off so often that half their offspring turn out to be fathered by outsiders. Of bonobos, perhaps the less said the better, at least in a family magazine. These "pygmy chimps," as they are also known, share 98% of our genes...