Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when science jobs are drying up even in the U.S., Chinese graduate students are faced with the question of whether they should stay in the United States to pursue a career or return to their homeland...
...which I can think of no precedent or parallel. Trained for 18 years in the intricacies of Tibetan Buddhist metaphysics, one of the most accomplished philosophers in his tradition has spent most of the past half-century entangled in geopolitics, trying to protect and rescue his homeland from the Chinese forces that attacked in 1950 and drove him into exile nine years later. His cause is not made easier by the facts that much of the world is trying to court China, the world's largest marketplace, and that he is the guest of a huge nation with problems...
...great forces of the day--exile, global travel and, especially, the mass media; and a man from a culture known as the "Forbidden Kingdom" now faces machine guns on the one hand and Chinese discos around the Potala Palace on the other. While Tibet is eroded in its homeland, it threatens to be commodified--or turned into an exotic accessory--abroad...
...human values--compassion, a sense of responsibility. That is our big concern. For whenever there is a community without deeper human values, then even one single family cannot be a happy family." For if we merely want to be happy, he says--though he has been forced from his homeland, seen 1.2 million of his people killed and had nearly all his 6,000 monasteries destroyed--it pays to be kind. Kindness, he says over and over, only stands to reason...
Although FAST hasn't generated revenues yet, its sponsorship of two rock concerts at Boston clubs put the company on the map. Taking a page in long-term planning from her homeland, Nan says the volunteers will be doing research and creating educational materials over the next couple of years. She projects that FAST won't be fully operational until around the turn of the century. Still, Bostonian Robert Tynes, co-founder of INA (Increase Your Natural Ability), a not-for-profit company that helps teens like Nan start and run their own businesses, is impressed with the speed...