Specially adapted self-defence classes are being run by a martial arts school at All Souls Clubhouse in Camden, north London, for 10 to 16-year-olds.

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The young Lee learned dancing - notably the cha-cha - and took up martial arts to protect himself from school bullies.

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Sallie Mae ( SLM - news - people ) loan paid directly to a Dahn affiliate, the Sun Institute, a New Jersey massage school, for "DahnMuDo" training, a 12-day course in noncombative martial arts she attended in Sedona.

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However, his parents instead enrolled him at the China Drama Academy, a talent school of hard knocks with a draconian regime that included training in music, acrobatics and martial arts that lasted 18 hours a day.

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