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Avalanches, high altitutude and bad weather make the Himalayas a dangerous place for anyone. But for Tibetan refugees attempting to flee their Chinese-occupied homeland, the mountains can be even more perilous. On the morning of Sept. 30, more than 100 international climbers at a base camp on Cho Oyu, the world's sixth highest mountain, watched as border guards from the Chinese People's Armed Police opened fire on a group of several dozen Tibetans ascending the 5,700m Nangpa La, a pass linking China and Nepal. "At first I was thinking it was simply warning shots," says...
Check out the Red Elvises, who describe their music as a combination of “good old rock ‘n roll with ethnic music from their homeland.” The band, formed by two Russian refugees in 1995, derives its name from the duo’s love of the late crooner and their passion for the color red (how apropos...
...There are nightclubs in New York City that are harder to get into than some of our chemical plants." ED MARKEY, Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts and member of the House Homeland Security Committee, after President Bush signed a $1.2 billion homeland-security bill that many Democrats think is too meager...
...There are nightclubs in New York City that are harder to get into than some of our chemical plants." ED MARKEY, Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts and member of the House Homeland Security Committee, after President Bush signed a $1.2 billion homeland-security bill that many Democrats think is too meager...
...behavioral recognition will patrol the stations. “We are fighting a war against people who have as their objective the overthrow of the United States government,” Romney said in the statement. “Given that kind of threat, we have to adjust our homeland security strategies to confront it.” The MBTA briefly implemented the system two years ago to address possible security threats to the Democratic National Convention. A MBTA spokesman, Joe Pesaturo, said that the policy was well-received at that time. “People have said over...