Word: tais
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...week's end the FBI struck again, arresting Larry Wu-Tai Chin, 63, a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst and naturalized U.S. citizen, charging him with spying for the People's Republic of China. Agents said that Chin, who retired in 1981 from the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service, which monitors radio broadcasts, had been employed by the U.S. in various capacities since World War II and may have been spying for China since the early 1950s...
...Larry Wu-Tai Chin, 63, was a CIA translator and analyst for the past 33 years. According to the FBI, Chin admitted to spying for China for at least that long. Quiet and mannerly, he apparently reaped $140,000 for his surreptitious services over the years...
...literature at UCLA. But she stayed, married a Chinese American and pursued a U.S. career in a succession of lackluster television roles. Now Chen, 23, has finally got her big break, the part of the innocent yet scheming beauty, May-May, in the film adaptation of James Clavell's Tai-Pan. The movie just finished shooting on location in China, where the authorities were not delighted by Chen's return, feeling the role was a degrading one for a Chinese to play. "The homecoming hit me with mixed emotions," says Chen. "In some ways, I accepted that...
...trumps everything." The other two major types of activity--strength training and stability (or balance) exercises--come into greater play as you get older. You don't necessarily have to do separate exercises for each category, especially when you're young. Indeed, some of the best physical routines--like Tai Chi or rock climbing--combine two or more approaches. But expect to change the mix as you move through the decades of your life...
...Yoga, Tai Chi, Pilates. Yoga is an ancient Indian discipline that links stretching exercises, breathing and meditation through the repetition of a series of poses, or asanas. Tai Chi is a slow-motion Chinese martial art designed to increase the chi, or life energy. Pilates is a muscle- lengthening program developed in Germany in the 1920s...