Word: yin
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...underground mazes that seethe with shops and exits. Thus a walk down three city blocks can become a ten-minute expedition that involves 92 steps down and 88 steps up, and leaves one feeling fit enough to enter the 10,000-meter run. Yet always there is an accommodating yin to balance the rigorous yang: Seoul's user-friendly subway is a miracle of swift efficiency...
...that both parties have nearly chosen their candidates for the White House, it's time for politocos to start speculating about the number two spot. Where there's a yin. there must be a yang...
...Women are asking more of men," maintains Jennifer Knopf, co-director of the adult-sexuality program at Northwestern Medical School in Chicago. "As women assume more of the men's roles in society, it's expected and natural, like yin and yang, that men should balance that out." Unfortunately, today's "new woman" is too often contending with the same old man. Women continue to do the lion's share of the housekeeping, child care and cooking, even in households where both partners work. Glamour magazine surveys have found, for example, that the proportion of women who claim that they...
...Bank of China tower would rival for dominance of the city's skyline, prudently had its blueprints vetted by feng shui experts. For a fee of several thousand dollars, a feng shui master advised moving a bank officer's door away from a nearby escalator to preserve the delicate yin-yang. Management, mindful of the feng shui faith of the Hong Kong Chinese, the bank's main customers, complied. In Singapore, which is 76% Chinese, the newly completed Hyatt Regency was suffering from a lack of business in 1971 when a feng shui master advised that the hotel's fountain...
...promise to tolerate the dissent and open debate that seemed to go hand in hand with its free-market economic policies? The answer: a resounding maybe. The Communist regime had waited weeks before moving to close down the student protests, but when it acted, it did so with a yin-and-yang-like merger of delicacy and firmness...