Many scientists, physicists in particular, now upload drafts of their papers into public archives paid for by networks of universities for the general good. (The most popular is known as arXiv, the middle letter being a Greek chi.) Here, manuscripts are subject to a ruthless process of open peer review, rather than the secret sort traditional publishers employ.
In a Ho Chi Minh City office near the Saigon River, I interviewed another Vietnamese entrepreneur with a story that has echoes of China start-ups in it.
On the side, he plans to open a tai chi club with the actor Jet Li, build an entrepreneurship university in Hangzhou and continue to work on several social and environmental initiatives, including one with the Nature Conservancy.
Guests may take part in a morning tai chi session with an instructor, go hunting for antiques in local attics, visit a tea plantation or make a Buddhist pilgrimage up Jizu mountain.
"I think the phone is becoming more like a consumer packaged good, " says Youngcho Chi, a senior vice president who runs strategic planning for Samsung's telecom unit.
"I remember when only a handful of people came, " says Tran Hong Chi, a guide for the somewhat grisly tours into the Demilitarized Zone or DMZ, a heavily bombed and severely poisoned territory that served as the boundary between north and south Vietnam.
Under his editorial leadership CNN.com and AllPolitics.com have won frequent critical acclaim, including two Webby Awards, a 1999 Milia d'Or, a 1998 and 1999 Interactive Achievement Award and a Sigma Delta Chi Award.
Meanwhile, a similar pilot study at the University of Missouri studied the use of Tai Chi as a method of cognitive rehabilitation for cancer survivors who had undergone chemotherapy.
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"Panguite is an especially exciting discovery since it is not only a new mineral, but also a material previously unknown to science, " study researcher Chi Ma, a senior scientist at Caltech, said in a statement.
The lights are dimmed, and a video shows Ms. Chen and her husband, Barry Chi, riding in a red Cadillac convertible at a parade in their honor.
The couple had a child, Phoenix-Chi, soon after but tabloid reports of dramatic bust-ups and rows were followed by a split and then a divorce.
Pham's sister Chi was a person thrice dislocated: once as an immigrant, twice as a transsexual, three times as a runaway.
Lunch-hour yoga classes are widespread and tai chi, a leisurely martial art and traditional pre-work exercise in China, is finding its way into the unlikeliest of places.
Dr Ed Chi, a scientist from the Palo Alto Research Center in California and a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, co-created the technology that will help judges to make a more accurate call.
Founded earlier this year, Bonham Strand today runs a brightly lit, 2, 000-square foot studio workshop in Lai Chi Kok, where a dozen tailors work at long desks, surrounded by clothes racks and fabric samples.
Dubbed the IdeaTab S2109 (or S2109A-F, to be specific), we're told by a reliable source that 'tis an Ice Cream Sandwich tablet assembled by Foxconn, and it'll come with a 9.7-inch, 4:3 IPS display (supplied by Chi Mei), a TI OMAP chip and four powerful SRS-ready speakers as featured on the beefy K2010.
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Chi Malker, a writer and editor in the Midwest, found herself in such a situation.
"The sufficient-income provision is hopelessly vague, " says Chi Chi Wu, a lawyer with the National Consumer Law Center.
Chi Wei, a 30-year-old saleswoman at a La Perla store in Beijing's central shopping district, Wangfujing, says some customers feel insulted when she tells them about the brand.
Their Royal Highnesses have asked me to communicate to you in the strongest terms possible that their position remains unchanged from that clearly articulated by them in July 2006, on the occasion of the Italian magazine, Chi, publishing a photograph of the scene surrounding their mother's dying moments.
Adverts that suggest a benefit for the family seem to work, such as that drinking bottled water while doing tai-chi in the park makes you a more energetic grandmother.
Until a fitness writer I know mentioned Chi Running and I looked into it.
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After finding brief happiness as a postoperative man wed to a Vietnamese-American woman, Chi commits suicide.
The state's bishops similarly released a statement, expressing support for CHI and for the Stodghill family.
Than is Intel's country manager in Vietnam, overseeing a staff of 15 in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon).
With the French star Vincent Cassell, who, evading some laser beams, does a cross between gymnastics and Tai Chi Chuan, and, in general, performs with professional skill.
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