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...pass for Shangrila. But the karma was fabulous there last week, thanks to a visit by the Dalai Lama, 46, the exiled leader of Tibet's Buddhists. Some 1,500 pilgrims arrived in a caravan of black-and-yellow school buses at the town's 13-acre Deer Park Buddhist Center. The occasion: the spectacular Kalachakra, the wheel-of-time ceremony that all but guarantees participants nirvana. Never before performed in the West, the Kalachakra has been given only six other times by the present Dalai Lama. At the end of three days of praying, the Dalai Lama...
...movies of the 80's Just good guys and bad guys, nobody turned back into a baby at the end and nobody had leukemia. At last! an honest to god movie, instead of a film. Now you could have a war movie which wasn't anti-war (the Deer Hunter), a movie which wasn't anti-military (Stripes) and Raiders of the Lost Ark which wasn't anti-anything. And with the trend of fantasy-fullfillment movies usurping ticket sales, it was only so long until someone came along and glorified Wealth. That's where (at last) Arthur comes...
...mouth disease. Highly contagious and with no known cure, it blisters the feet, tongues and mouths of animals, and causes lameness, weight loss and, in dairy cows, reduced milk production. At least 33 different species are susceptible, mostly such cloven-hoofed creatures as cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and deer. For farmers the usual recourse is to kill, burn and bury infected livestock. Often an entire herd must be slaughtered, even if only one animal has been stricken, lest the disease spread. Some years ago, British authorities had to kill more than 280,000 animals to contain a major outbreak...
Animals are also reappearing. Pocket gophers, once regarded as pests because they eat young conifers, may prove to be man's allies: their labyrinthine burrowing improves soil aeration and helps water flow through the compacted ash. Elk and deer have been spotted around water sources in the blowdown area. Though fish are unlikely to be seen in Spirit Lake for years, bacteria and algae have colonized the lakes to become the first link in a developing food chain. The insect population was heavily damaged, but scientists are now finding ladybugs feeding on the sap of green bracken ferns, which...
...unaware of migration, thought birds hibernated in winter, while Ice landers believed that the whooper swan, after nesting, flew off to the moon. Closer at hand, songbirds poke crushed ants, rich in formic acid, into their coats to remove para sites; the common blue jay is obeyed by fleeing deer when he pipes his warnings; and the red-eyed vireo can give 22,000 encores a day of his song...