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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Chinese government gives preferential treatment to Tibetans who learn Chinese, many Tibetans want to retain their own Buddhist culture, the Dalai Lama, a Tibetan spiritual leader, said yesterday...
...escape to France, at the cost of a tacit bargain with the police to shun political activity, demonstrates the emotional cost of such vigilance. Running to the warmth and decadence of a small French village, she seeks out her father's first wife, Katya, to learn how to say no to the Future. Katya left Lionel and South Africa's demands, seeking refuge in France. She tells Rosa...
...black university uncontrolled by the government, Soni said, "would attact South Africa's best black brains and develop education to our needs, not to what the system wants us to learn...
...boys at the CIA would have been much happier it Thomas Powers and others like him never bothered to look inside their murky closed. It may not be pleasant, but it is important and necessary to inspect those skeletons and pick the bones clean; we can learn from the post-mortems how better to fight the disease...
...from thermonuclear fusion. Blessed with an abundance of the elements called rare earths, the Chinese are also becoming increasingly skilled at extracting them and putting them to work in many ways, for example, as catalysts in petroleum refining. The visiting American specialists found one area where the U.S. could learn from the Chinese: the production of oil from shale...