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...Aiyar offers little economic comparison, but she does ask one very pertinent (and Indian) question: How has China been able to build fabulous highways when the pothole-ridden streets of her homeland have hardly changed? Millions of her compatriots would love to know why China's path out of poverty is so much quicker than their own. Maybe if the neighbors spent more time together, some answers would emerge...
Prior to Palin’s nomination, the town’s most recent claim to fame was that its Wal-Mart sold more duct tape than any Wal-Mart in the world in 2002, Howk said. (The Department of Homeland Security had issued a directive to stock up on duct tape and plastic sheeting to seal windows during chemical or biological attacks...
...Dalai Lama really given up on hope that China might some day come around and agree to his proposal for some sort of (very) limited autonomy for his homeland, Tibet? That's what the 73-year-old exiled Tibetan spiritual leader appeared to indicate during an Oct. 25 speech in his exile home of Dharamsala in northern India. "I have been sincerely pursuing the middle way approach in dealing with China for a long time now but there hasn't been any positive response from the Chinese side," he was quoted as saying. "As far as I'm concerned...
...appears that after decades of fruitless negotiations with Beijing as part of an attempt to gain some concessions for his homeland, the 15th Dalai Lama may have finally reached the end of his tether. "Mr. Patience has run out of patience," says Robbie Barnett, a professor of Tibetan studies at Columbia University in New York City. "It's really very serious indeed and a major disappointment, though not so much of a surprise. The Chinese must have know this was coming - some of the responsible officials in fact must be very pleased that they have managed to provoke this reaction...
...Dalai Lama fled his homeland for exile in India in 1959, and has since become a familiar, maroon-robed presence on the world stage in a tireless, peripatetic campaign to win his homeland some degree of autonomy and preserve Tibet's traditional culture. This year he has found himself in an increasingly impossible situation since the riots in March, analysts and academics say. Younger and more radical forces among the some 100,000-strong exile community in India have increasingly called for a tougher stance against Beijing, particularly as reports of alleged further abuse, including arrests and shootings of demonstrating...