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...profit that comes from the clear-cutting a tropical rainforest usually trumps any biophilia felt by the citizens of developing nations. Wilson refers to the human “occupation” of the earth in much the same tones as one would refer to the Chinese occupation of Tibet. But the occupation is here to stay, and the question is how we treat those plants and animals that live under our domination...
...included the Dalai Lama's representatives in the U.S. and Europe, Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen. The purpose of the high-level visit was not revealed but U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said: "We do see the trip of Lodi Gyari to Beijing and then to Lhasa [Tibet's capital] as a positive development." In 1950, China took control of Tibet, a move it calls a "peaceful liberation" and the Dalai Lama terms an invasion. After an anti-Chinese uprising failed in 1959, the Dalai Lama fled to India. U.S. Florida Follies Nearly two years after Florida...
...immortality. Since immortality would throw all kinds of wrenches into the system of reincarnation, Tibetan monks hid the sharira for thousands of years, but ensured a family of trained acrobats would one day be able to retrieve it if the need were sufficiently dire. Presumably the Chinese invasion of Tibet was not dire enough, because the sharira is still waiting to be discovered when the diabolical Karl (played by Richard Roxburgh) sets his sights on it. (We know Karl is evil from the start because he wears a black silk smoking jacket and uses words such as apropos.) Karl hires...