Word: tais
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History Hue-Tam Ho Tai suggested that the Freshman Writing Tutorials recommended to replace Expository Writing should allow students to learn writing techniques for a variety of disciplines...
...country's intellectuals, style queens, foodies and hucksters, however, China is the new black. Every other day, a new research partnership or joint venture is announced, or a delegation heads to Beijing or Shanghai. Chinese supermarkets, traditional medicine, tai chi and feng shui have hit the suburbs, and moviegoers are broadening their taste beyond Hong Kong's martial-arts kickfests. A Tianjin-born property billionaire whose projects have reshaped Sydney is inspired by Shanghai's buildings (fewer columns, more concrete, less steel). Australia has had such infatuations in the past. First it was Britain, then the U.S. and Japan...
...issued a blank check to its military for the use of force against Taiwan." CHIU TAI-SHAN, Vice Chair of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, on China's proposed antisecession law that in certain circumstances authorizes "nonpeaceful means" of dealing with the island, considered a renegade province by China...