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...China has saved Lhasa, their enemies abroad insisting that all Chinese are evil and all Tibetans are pure innocents?Barnett's meticulous documentation has a fresh and welcome air to it. Clearly, he has no time for those who would romanticize old Tibet, or traffic in images of Shangri-La: Tibetans were more than capable of brutality against themselves, he points out, with at least 200 monks dying during an attempted coup in Lhasa in 1947, and the city was never as detached from modern life as the starry-eyed like to believe?Elizabeth Arden cosmetics and the latest Bing...
...conceived installation of new climatic equipment, Lascaux suffered an outbreak of fungal infection that threatened to destroy in a few years what thousands of millenniums had left largely unscathed. The cave's custodians are still struggling to eradicate this scourge. Since a journalist from French science magazine La Recherche was allowed into the cave three years ago, there has been no independent assessment of how they are faring. As a result, concerns have circulated among prehistorians in France and throughout the world that the rescue operation itself was endangering the cave's delicate equilibrium, and further damaging the site. Last...
...foreign consumer-goods firms trying to tap into the market. Already some foreigners are working closely with the new generation of Russian retailers, hoping to piggyback off their expansion. The French cosmetics firm L'Oréal, for example, is selling in Russia two skin-care lines, Vichy and La Roche-Posay, distributed exclusively through pharmacies. The French company works with individual pharmacies to revamp their look and feel, including providing fittings such as shelving. This January, L'Oréal and a pharmacy chain called 36.6 teamed up to open what they call a "concept store...
...complex stews, bold flavors, unusual ingredients and intricate cooking techniques, the area has long attracted gourmets from around the world (the most daring will munch on chapulines--fried grasshoppers). Cabrera began offering lessons after getting repeated requests for recipes from travelers who ate in her family's restaurant, La Olla. But what began seven years ago as an occasional class has turned into a semiweekly event often sold out a month ahead in high season, from December to March. Across town, chef Iliana de la Vega has had similar success with the courses she offers at her acclaimed restaurant...
...Those are deals that Morales apparently feels Chavez, his political mentor, can broker for him. Chavez was characteristically boisterous Wednesday night when he flew into La Paz, Bolivia, to meet with Morales before the pair left for Puerto Iguazu. "Bolivia and Venezuela," he announced, "are always working on a big common strategy...