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Another witness to the incident, Brandon D. Bartch ’08, said that he was sitting at the Greenhouse Café when the police apprehended Fink. Bartch said that he first noticed Fink standing near the rail of the ramp “looking fairly...
Another witness to the incident, Brandon D. Bartch ’08, said that he was sitting at the Greenhouse Café when the police apprehended Fink. Bartch said that he first noticed Fink standing near the rail of the ramp “looking fairly out of it.” He described Fink as slightly overweight with a shaven head, wearing a green jacket...
...past, the remoteness of the area made the finds a moot point. But last year China completed its first rail link to Tibet. The $3.7 billion railway, the world's highest, crosses a 16,500-foot pass and has pressurized cars so that passengers can withstand the altitude. The route also makes moving raw materials from the province, which once would have had to been done by truck over high mountain roads, potentially affordable. "The railway has given this economic reality," says a mining lawyer who asked not to be named. "I mean, they can actually access these places...
...When the rail project was launched in 2001, the Tibetan government-in-exile called it "a disaster for the Tibetan people," and warned that it would attract huge numbers of ethnic Chinese to the province and upset fragile ecosystems. In a 2003 white paper Chinese officials denounced those concerns as the work of the "Dalai [Lama] clique and the international anti-China forces" who ignore "the progress in the ecological improvement and environmental protection work in Tibet." The paper argued that economic development was necessary to protect the province's environment. But officials in Dharamsala argue that average Tibetans...
...standing on the nearby train tracks. Miyamoto jogged over to the tracks and escorted the woman back to his police box, as she pulled against him and screamed that she wanted to die. When they made it back to the koban, the woman broke free and ran toward the rail crossing. With a train less than a quarter-mile away, Miyamoto leapt onto the tracks and tried to pull the suicidal woman into an emergency safety area beneath the platform. She wouldn't move. Miyamoto waved at the incoming train repeatedly, but it was an express traveling at nearly...