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According to the Chinese, "acupuncturation," the art of acupuncture, originated under the reign of Huang-ti, the Yellow Emperor, who acceded to the thrown in 2704 B.C. A book called Huang Ti Nei Ching Su Wen (The Yellow Emperor's Classic on Internal Medicine), which was written around 400 A.D., relates many of the emperor's tales of acupuncture. One tale, for example, tells of a soldier who was hit with an arrow and noticed an improvement in an illness affecting a completely different part of his body...
...dynasty in the 2nd century B.C.) and Roman Emperor Augustus each gave to millions unity and peace that lasted because their policies were based on moderation which won consent. Thus they repaired the breakdown of the coercive unity briefly imposed by their unsuccessful predecessors, Shih Wang-ti and Julius Caesar...
...balls into the up per deck," says Martin. "If he was 18, you'd pay $100,000 to sign him. He's that good a prospect." Three weeks later, just a few hours after he gained his parole, LeFlore was signed by the Ti gers. Shipped off to the club's Class A farm team in Clinton, Iowa, the muscular outfielder exclaimed: "This is be yond my wildest dreams! I'm going to stick with this baseball...
...rare beauty. The slow blossoming of the spacecraft's three orange and white parachutes against the bright, azure sky seemed designed for maximum drama. Then, in a final demonstration of precision, the spacecraft Casper hit the water only one mile off the bow of the recovery carrier Ti-tonderoga. Once out of its natural element, Casper immediately capsized; it bobbed nose down in the choppy South Pacific for five minutes until the astronauts-strapped in upside-down and rapidly becoming queasy-righted it with three flotation bags. That brief misadventure could not come close to dampening the exuberance...
...movement has been largely frivolous: MOM (for Men Our Masters), started by a Manhattan secretary, and its men's auxiliary WOW (for Women Our Wonders); and the Pussycat League, with its slogan "The lamb chop is mightier than the karate chop." More serious criticism has come from Ti-Grace Atkinson, an early theorist of the New Feminism who withdrew from the movement more than a year ago. Says Atkinson: "There is no movement. Movement means going some place, and the movement is not going anywhere. It hasn't accomplished anything...