The word "or" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to denote a choice between two options. For example: "Would you like coffee or tea?".
In Chengdu she tried her hand at tai chi (pictured).But along the way she also managed to sound a few notes of substance.
Rejuvenated patients cycling with their grandchildren or practising tai chi are far more effective than the stereotype of a frail arthritis sufferer.Even the youth-obsessed cosmetics industry Lancome once ditched Isabella Rossellini as its model because she was considered too old at 42 is getting better at portraying women over 50.
Another amusing puzzle, among a few I could name, was why the Western-looking characters address each other as qióng sī tài tai and the like.
The solution should be less understanding, and longer and harsher prison sentences.WOON TAI KEATSingaporeTerritorialSIR As one of those proud Canadians who has often bragged about the unfailing "sensibility" and "civility" of Canada, I was shocked to hear about the recent woes of Ontario Hydro ("Hydro-phobia", August 23rd).
Mao tai (or baijiu), a fiery 60-70 proof liqueur distilled from sorghum, is what you'll typically drink.
A camphor wood sculpture of a figure in a tai chi pose by Zhu Min fetched HK$3.2m at Christie's, a world record for the artist and nearly twice the estimate.
He stayed intrigued after years of meetings with Chinese leaders who smoked, spat or pickled themselves with mao-tai.
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.
Labour ends up allocating itself toward low-productivity markets, and the whole economy suffers.Chang-Tai Hsieh, of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Enrico Moretti, of the University of California, Berkeley, have made a tentative stab at calculating the size of such effects.
More than 180 events ranged from table tennis and chess to traditional Chinese activities such as dragon-boat racing, tai-qi and lion dancing, and more exotic sports, such as food-carrying, kite-flying and tyre-pushing.The games provide a way for the authorities to honour farmers' collective toil.
In 2009, Hsieh Chang-Tai and Peter Klenow found that a big part of the reason why China and India are so much poorer than the United States is that wildly unproductive firms are more likely to survive in those countries than in America.
