Word: herders
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...when I was sure everyone was gone, I headed to Market Square in downtown Pittsburgh to assist with the event. I helped direct the people though the barricades, filling them in where it would look just right for the photo. A young but expert crowd herder gave me and 15 volunteers orders on directing the crowd, moving barricades and keeping people happy. He had explained the day before that all of his orders came with a please and thank you, even if he lacked the time to articulate them...
...reach of telephones. Dialing air rescue in emergencies is not an option, which is why, by the time we started, staff outnumbered clients. At the Yuksom trailhead, Samten Bhutia, our guide, hired the cook, a cook's helper, two dzos (hirsute offspring of yaks and cows), and a herder to manage the beasts and their burdens...
...live there. I don't know what I'd do for work." (Or food: "City people eat too many vegetables. There's not enough fat in their diet.") His teenage son left school after fourth grade to help with their animals, and Jampur wants him to remain a herder: "Those who inherit animals will stay herdsmen. Those who don't have no choice but the city...
...handful of nations, partly because countries such as the U.S. and Japan like the idea of a fledgling democracy nestled between Russia and China. International aid organizations and nongovernmental organizations have delivered relief to areas hit by the dzud. They're also teaching new ways for herders to make a living?including gardening, garment making and carpentry?and are trying to make the herders think about livestock as a business. In August, the Gobi Regional Economic Growth Initiative, with funding from the U.S. Government, debuted Herder From the Future, a radio series in which the lead character is transported from...
...waters here as he leaned out to wash his clothes. Crossing, and ascending the last curve, we surprise a group of novice monks in maroon robes pelting one another with snowballs. Embarrassed, they run off, leaving us alone to enter the courtyard, which is deserted save for the occasional herder passing through with his goats. Clouds hang low, draping the gilded rooftop. Tsurphu, an imposing red-brown block complete with a blue and gold standard fluttering from the roof, looks every bit the abandoned castle...