Word: tais
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shanghai, just behind the area where elderly couples gather each day at dawn to go through the ghostly motions of Tai Chi, cranes are busy erecting the world's tallest building, to go with the tallest tower in Asia and the largest department store on the continent. In downtown Toronto, on a jam-packed sidewalk, a blue-robed Chinese monk is knocking clappers ceremoniously together. Amid all the promiscuous minglings of our mishmashed global order, the most confusing ones often arise not when cultures clash but when centuries do, with their different senses of time. The modern Everyplace...
...machines, youthful trends and state-of-the-art Star Wars visions, but also in the sense of the born-again optimism native to a young Republic of Hope. The more traditional cultures of the world, in turn, have brought into America pieces of the past--Ayurvedic medicine, say, or Tai Chi, and, more deeply, a sense of community and continuity that has breathed new life into the "old-fashioned" American values of family loyalty and hard work. In cultures as in households, the old pass on their wisdom, and the young bring their reviving innocence...
...Jason D. Stewart Jim Stewart Benjamin A. Stingle Matthew N. Stollar Eva C. Stone Kaya R. Stone Megan V. Strackbein Anna B. Su Joy S. Su Joseph E. Subotnik Gregory M. Sulkowski Evelyn H. Sung Daniel M. Sussner Thomas K. Sylvester Naomi O. Szekeres Emily N. Tabak Steven J. Tai Uttam K. Tambar Laura L. Tarter Christian J. Taubman Mary K. Taylor Manisha Thakuria Tracy A. Thall Susanna B. Tobin Alexis Todor Lauren A. Toretta Nicole Torraco David A. Tortorella Matthew S. Trent Anne C. Tsai Caroline F. Turcotte David K. Ulrich Gaurav A. Upadhyay Lauren L. Valiente...
...says that he is currently working with researchers at the Harvard Medical School to see if Tai Chi can be used can be used as physical therapy for people with diabetes, osteoporosis or arthritis...
...encourages anyone interested in Tai Chi to "just show up" at any of his classes, which are held Tuesdays and Thursdays at noon...