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...Nepal, Milwaukee-born Father John Dahlheimer, 57, a Jesuit missionary, counsels refugees fleeing Tibet in search of religious freedom. Though he and the 366 other Christian workers in this officially Hindu land obey the law against proselytizing, their example has inspired more than 3,000 Nepalese to convert since...
Last April, when she abruptly canceled all her operatic engagements (with the exception of La Boheme) and set out for India, she carried only a single change of clothing in her backpack. Traveling from Calcutta to Nepal and Kashmir, she lived in cheap hotels and sometimes washed her clothes on the rocks beside rivers. In the depths of Calcutta's desperate poverty, she was ushered into Mother Teresa's presence and found herself awestruck: "That face is so gorgeous, with its millions of lines. She held my hands and looked at me with those eyes of strength, calm...
...with preserving endangered species-this blessed event was something very special. Flossie's offspring was not an ordinary black-and-white Holstein calf but a baby gaur (rhymes with flower), a rare type of wild ox that lives in the remote forests of South Asia from India and Nepal to the Malay Peninsula...
...this threat, the government employs Indiana Jones, an improbably handsome archeology teacher and part-time adventurer to find the Ark before Hitler's henchmen do. After that, it's all pretty much irrelevant as far as plot goes. Suffice it to say Jones travels halfway around the world, through Nepal, Egyptian bazzars, through Cairo and the Mediterranean, flung headfirst into an impossible maze of threats, subterfuge and adventure...
Sanjay Upadhya Katmandu, Nepal...