Word: goldings
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...hiked deep into the Hukawng in 1999 - braving carnivorous leeches, among other trials - he was the first scientist to visit the area since the early 20th century. Tigers were once numerous in the valley, but poaching and human population growth had reduced their numbers to perhaps a few hundred. Gold had been discovered in the valley, and Rabinowitz knew that if the government didn't act soon, tigers would soon be hunted into extinction in Burma...
...outside Leonidio, 120 miles (193 km) from Athens, the Elona Monastery doesn't usually get many visitors. But for one week of the year, it is packed. Every August, when Orthodox Christians celebrate the life of Jesus' mother, thousands of worshippers stream in, drawn by a 700-year-old gold-encrusted, jewel-covered painting of Mary and Jesus, which is said to hold miraculous healing powers...
Metals like gold, which are highly efficient electrical conductors, are sent to a smelter to be recycled and reused...
...DOLLAR CHEST by Jimmie Martin Money talks, but should it shout all over French antiques? Design duo Jimmie Martin (they're Swedes living in London) paint venerable items in gold and silver leaf and graffiti them with if-you've-got-it-flaunt-it slogans and symbols. Fashion designer Paul Smith says new-Brit design twists the classics; here, it positively makes them reel. www.jimmiemartin.co.uk
...events. The Dalai Lama met the leaders of Germany, the U.S. and Canada in quick succession. Headlines trumpeted Beijing's angry response. In Tibet, 4,000 armed police confronted monks at Lhasa's venerated Drepung Monastery when they tried to celebrate the Dalai Lama being awarded the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal. Then the Chinese government announced that it must certify all new reincarnations of Tibetan Buddhism's top clerics, signaling its firm intention to select and control the next Dalai Lama when the current 14th Dalai Lama passes away. He, in turn, announced that he was considering the idea that...