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Fred Levine, 62, a retired computer-systems analyst from Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., began doing Qi Gong in September. He takes a weekly class taught by Claire Cunneen at the New York Center of the Integral Way and practices every other day at home. He also plays tennis, poorly, in his estimation, at least until recently. The first time he did a Qi Gong warm-up--gently pummeling his body with his fists--in preparation for his weekly game, he noticed a dramatic change. "About halfway through I suddenly started playing differently. I was using my mind more...
Kathleen Moloney, 61, a social worker for the State of New York, got into Qi Gong by accident. Six months ago, she attended what she thought would be a Tai Chi demonstration. It turned out to be Eight Treasures Qi Gong, taught by Cunneen. No matter. Moloney has been doing the form ever since. Not only does she feel less stressed out and more able to concentrate, she also enjoys the excursion into another culture. "It opens you up to a lot of things--Chinese martial arts, medicine and Chinese painting," she says. "There's a whole way of looking...
...discuss it much, but they have taken sides in a simmering national argument. The question before the house, as the deer season bangs on in the rural background this Thanksgiving week, concerns the morality and future of hunting--and specifically whether children, who are its future, should be taught to hunt. Does it help them connect with their elders and the outdoors; to respect the power of weapons and the realities of life and death, as hunters believe? Or does killing animals, as hunting's opponents claim, damage young psyches, making children indifferent to suffering and ready to see deadly...
...from firearms manufacturers. "Hunting breeds insensitivity to the suffering of others, whether animal or human," says Susie Cutler, 39, a Porter, Ind., lawyer who demonstrates against hunters in a nearby state park. "You can look at some of the shooting rampages in schools--a lot of [these kids] were taught to hunt by adults. In their minds, killing is a viable option" in dealing with problems...
Part of the change may be due to women. The number of women hunters has doubled in the past 10 years to 2.6 million. Some, like my neighbor in upstate New York, Karolyn Kern Shepard, Glenn's mother, are as fiercely competitive as men; Karolyn was taught to hunt by her father. But hunters' organizations claim the arrival of new women hunters, including a number of single mothers taking their children out, has dampened the trophy mentality. One woman in Alabama recently took up hunting and says it saved her marriage; she finally had something she and her husband enjoyed...