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...criticism for giving up Tibet's fight for independence. Dalai Lama: Some Tibetans now accuse me of selling out their right to independence. Even my eldest brother is for complete independence and he always accuses me [of this]. But my approach is actually in our own interest. Tibet is backward, it's a big land, quite rich in natural resources, but we completely lack the technology or expertise [to exploit them]. So if we remain within China, we might get a greater benefit, provided it respects our culture and beautiful environment and gives us some kind of guarantee...
...tremors. (He does not try to forecast smaller events, like the earthquake swarms that rumbled beneath Mount St. Helens before it erupted last week, or the more significant quakes that perturbed Parkfield, Calif.) At first he and his colleagues looked for strong quakes that had already occurred, then scrolled backward through years of seismic data. More recently they have been working with current seismic records as well. Their computer programs home in on small quakes that occur in temporal and spatial proximity, linking up in a mathematically defined chain. Only when a chain is preceded by longer-term precursory patterns...
PRACTICALLY EVERY successful Broadway musical these days seems to look backward in one way or another. There are musicals inspired by old rock groups (Mamma Mia), old movies (Hairspray) and old husbands of Liza Minnelli's (The Boy from Oz). So it may be no surprise that somebody decided to make a musical based on the 1975 film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail. But Spamalot--scheduled to open on Broadway in March--could give the tired old genre a happy jolt. The movie, after all, seems a challenge from the get-go: an unwieldy hodgepodge of slapstick, splatter...
Loeb and other audience members confirmed this was not an option, and the man’s surprised response was, “America is a very backward country compared to Europe...
Echeverri confesses that Dresden at first seemed like a long shot as a place to create a world-class biotech company with an international research culture. The city was still "a bit backward," he says, and locals hardly spoke English. But Max Planck and the federal and state governments were pulling hard to make it work. When Cenix arrived in Dresden in 2001, it had 11 employees. By the end of that year, it had more than doubled that number and boasted scientists from eight countries. "It has been easy to attract essentially any nationality here, with perhaps two exceptions...