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Following graduation, he set up shop as an acupuncturist-first in Kumamoto, then Tokyo and finally in a rented room in Funabashi. He married a college student, Tomoko Ishii, in 1978, then opened an apothecary specializing in traditional Chinese medicaments. A turning point in his life appears to have occurred in 1982, when he was arrested for selling fake cures. Authorities detained him for 20 days and fined him 200,000 yen--about $800 at that time. The business went bankrupt, and Asahara was reputedly shattered by the incident. Out of shame at what neighbors thought, for some time afterward...
...shelter] will bring drugs, cocaine into the neighborhood. We sacrifice, they bring that into our backyard," says Dr. Won K. Pak, an acupuncturist in Central Square and a 20-year resident of the neighborhood...
...Wales, and a male friend on New Year's Eve 1989. He calls her "Squidgy" and repeats, "I love you, I love you." She mentions the "torture" of her marriage and agrees to a meeting with her phone partner "next Tuesday," under guise of a visit to her acupuncturist. True? Who cares, when 40,000 Britons paid $22 each on the first day to call a special phone line and listen to the tape? Three days after this bombshell, the Sun, Britain's raciest tabloid, announced it possessed another juicy phone transcript, this one of a conversation between Fergie...
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...recommended medical alternative. In 1983 I injured my knee in a wind-surfing accident. After scanning X rays, an emergency-room doctor immobilized my leg, gave me a pair of crutches and suggested surgery. Before going ahead, I decided to invest $60 and visit an elderly Chinese acupuncturist recommended by a decidedly non-New Age investment banker in New York City. I do not like needles, but I like surgery even less; as it turned out, the worst of the experience was feeling a mild electric tingling. Forty minutes later, I gingerly tried the knee to discover that the pain...