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Monday, March 22, 1999

Aware...Alert...
Avoid... Attitude...
Anticipate...Act...

Photography by Kathryn Bender, Star-Bulletin

At the Martial Arts Fitness Center, women are taught
those six words as their keys to defending themselves.
Above, Kimi Hayashida wards off David Wheaton,
instructor and would-be perpetrator, by pressing two
fingers just below his Adam's apple in a free self-defense
class for women. At below, the rest of the class practices the move.



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