Word: taichi
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...1990s, Taichi Yoshida, the owner of a small moving company in Osaka, Japan, began noticing that many of his jobs involved people who had just died. Families of the deceased were either too squeamish to pack up for their dead relatives, or there wasn't any family to call on. So Yoshida started a new business cleaning out the homes of the dead. Then he started noticing something else: thick, dark stains shaped like a human body, the residue of liquids excreted by a decomposing corpse...
...leaders said the activity will appeal to students interested in the spiritual side of Taichi, those looking to learn self defense and "those with a more competitive Bruce Lee side," said Brian K. Kim '01, a co-founder of the group...
...West signing on with different ranches when they needed work." Similarly, he thinks, cybercowboys will ride the information superhighway, not working regularly for anybody but contracting with one corporation after another to do specific, limited jobs. McCann goes further yet to endorse the vision of a Japanese author, Taichi Fakayia, of a kind of cybernetic updating of the Middle Ages: computer and E-mail jockeys will work mostly on their own at home, perhaps gathering once a week at a 21st century version of the medieval fair to buy, sell and trade...
Baltz, 59, began his path to the streets 14 years ago when he started taking TaiChi to relieve his arthritis pains. He began usingsome of the things he learned in class to give hisco-workers massages...
...massage, he insists, is no textbookvariety. He borrows elements not only from TaiChi, but from modern dance and acupuncture, aswell. His massage frequently looks like a dance ashe stands, sits, elbows and knees his clientele...