Word: tais
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...ears, but most of what they're listening to is pirated: either out-and-out rip-offs, or legitimate CDs written off as destroyed that somehow manage to fall off a truck and get sold in an alley. "It's pretty devastating to all the majors," says Cindy Tai, EMI's managing director for China, who estimates fakes comprise 95% of the cassette market and slightly less for CDs. But while many record companies are sitting back and hoping things will improve once China enters the World Trade Organization, Matt Clark has different ideas. International representative for Beijing-based Pulay...
...just as a place to invest in but a good place to live. Roughly 300,000 people, mostly managers, have moved to China, and Shanghai is the hottest destination. "The more business moves to China, and the more people leave, the faster China closes the technology gap," worries Lee Tai-an of the Ministry of Economic Affairs' Industrial Development Bureau...
...film as a whole to connect with every section of your mind in some manner, though it may not leave every part entirely sated. Fisher credited this “alternation of heavy and light material” in the film to the Taoist concept of “tai chi—the cosmic dialogue of yin and yang.” Indeed, he said, many of the film’s insights have their groundings in Eastern forms of philosophy and religion: “The Eastern systems of thought are most consistent and practical...
...About two and a half years ago, she joined with the German company Puma to start up a line of clothing for what she calls "mind/body sports," like yoga, tai chi and chi gong. She's now at work on the fourth collection of the series, called Nuala. The clothes are mostly cotton, though some are microfibers, and are produced in muted, earthy colors such as gray, black, ivory and burnt pumpkin. Some you'd wear in class, some you'd wear to and from...
...There are two parts--a 7-ft. pulley tower with leather straps for hands and feet and a movable bench with two rotating disks attached to its edge. Together they work in synch to stretch, strengthen and increase range of motion. Gyrotonics combines elements of Kundalini yoga, dance and Tai Chi, but it feels closest to synchronized swimming. Instead of linear back-and-forth movements, GXS offers more than a hundred variations, most of them circular and three-dimensional...