Word: lhasa
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...protest against its Chinese occupiers. Now, from his place of exile in Dharmsala, the Himalayan hill town in northern India where he has lived for most of the past 28 years, the Dalai Lama spoke. The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism sought to explain the rioting that had rocked Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, on the other side of the Himalayas, and the harshness of the Chinese response. Inevitably, Peking blamed the Dalai Lama, 52, for instigating the demonstrations that inflamed his people both at home and in exile...
...proverbially longs to see how the other half lives: the tiny Dalai Lama, installed as God-King of Tibet at the age of four, used to stand on the roof of his palace and wistfully gaze through a telescope at the other little boys playing in the streets of Lhasa; the British rulers faithfully follow the trials of everyday drudges on the local soap opera Crossroads. The screen that separates us from royals is, after all, a two-way illusion. When the Queen Mother decided once to drop in on a typical French bistro to dine in the company...
...seems that there is no place on earth too remote to have a McDonald's restaurant, a Coca-Cola bottling plant or a Holiday Inn hotel. The Memphis- based Holiday Corp. lodging chain said last week that it had agreed to manage Tibet's ten-month-old Lhasa Hotel, a 500-room, $30 million complex...
Visitors have complained that the Lhasa, now run by the Tibetan Tourism Co., offers food and service that are poor by Western standards. Holiday Corp., though, is expected to make the "rooftop of the world" more hospitable. The chain operates 23 hotels in Asia, including the 1,029-room Holiday Inn Lido Hotel in Peking...
...dodge alien fire and blow up spacecraft. But will these toys tell your child that there is a difference between bleach and Sprite? Can "Whiz Kid" instruct your child not to try to swallow the Nerf Pool Cue and Balls? Can "Little Professor" teach your youngster that Lhasa Apsos can cannot survive the intense heat and radiation barrage found inside a microwave oven...