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...said. “How many ways do you see different manifestations of the tai chi symbol?” He said the process got him thinking about the way images are connected—he started seeing similar motifs of the tai chi symbol from the flag of Mongolia to the Pepsi logo. Normally, students make a short three-minute film or podcast every week that relates to the book or readings discussed. Kuriyama said that while in his experience, students care very little about papers once they’ve been turned in—apart from their...
...extinction. The black-footed ferret in the western U.S. was believed to be extinct in the wild - meaning it was only found in captivity - until it was successfully reintroduced into the wild by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service between 1991 and 2008. Conservationists did the same work in Mongolia, where they successfully reintroduced wild horse to the steppes of Central Asia. And new techniques - like selling the carbon sequestered in standing forests as a way to fight climate change - offer the potential for game-changing new sources of revenue for conservation. Altogether, the IUCN assessment estimates that...
...Suspicions of fixed bouts arise occasionally, but lately the commitment and character of ranking sumo wrestlers has come under question. Mongolian yokozuna (grand champion) Asashoryu begged off from participating in a tour of Japan, citing an injury, but he was then filmed playing soccer at home in Mongolia, earning him a two-tournament ban. Last February, then-stable master Junichi Yamamoto was arrested on suspicion of ordering three wrestlers to beat a 17-year-old during a training session - the youth later died of his injuries. Yamamoto and the wrestlers were arrested and charged, and are awaiting trial...
...million handicapped. "I think the Paralympics is great, because it shows that people with disabilities like us are pretty much like normal people," says Fan Chunhe, 23, who has been blind since birth. He came to Beijing five years ago from his village in the mountains of Inner Mongolia. "I wanted to go out into society," Fan says. "In the mountain valley there was no opportunity to work." In Beijing, he found a job as a masseur. "As a blind person, massage is something we can do. We'd like to do other work," he says. "Others...
...ethnic minorities, her origins are perfectly calibrated to appeal to the liberal, middle-aged and mostly Western buyers that make up world music's fan base. Born to a Han-Chinese father and Mongolian-Chinese mother, Sa was raised as a real-life nomad on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia. There, she learned how to sing and play the guzheng (zither) and the horse-headed fiddle, as well as speak Mongolian...