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Avalanches, high altitutude and bad weather make the Himalayas a dangerous place for anyone. But for Tibetan refugees attempting to flee their Chinese-occupied homeland, the mountains can be even more perilous. On the morning of Sept. 30, more than 100 international climbers at a base camp on Cho Oyu, the world's sixth highest mountain, watched as border guards from the Chinese People's Armed Police opened fire on a group of several dozen Tibetans ascending the 5,700m Nangpa La, a pass linking China and Nepal. "At first I was thinking it was simply warning shots," says...
...staff had posted them to summarize my pro-choice position during the Democratic primary, at a time when some of my opponents were questioning my commitment to protect Roe v. Wade. Within the bubble of Democratic Party politics, this was standard boilerplate, designed to fire up the base. The notion of engaging the other side on the issue was pointless, the argument went; any ambiguity on the issue implied weakness...
Building a user base and ad revenues from calendars may prove difficult, since Microsoft, Yahoo!, Apple and various other start-ups have free calendar offerings that are improving. But 30 Boxes' founders know a lot about working from scratch. They created and sold photo destination Webshots twice--first to Excite@home (another dotcom casualty) for $82.5 million in stock in 1999 and then, after buying it back in 2002 for $2.4 million, they retooled it and resold it to CNET for $70 million in 2004. Will they try for the hat trick? "We could go into a larger organization...
Reporting from her Washington base camp, ANA MARIE COX dishes the dirt...
...Bush-bashing is just one part of an election very much defined by U.S.-related issues. One is whether Ecuador will keep letting the U.S. use the Manta air base on the Pacific coast for drug surveillance flights - or if Ecuador will even continue to assist Washington's drug war, particularly the multibillion-dollar Plan Colombia. (Correa says he would not renew the Manta treaty when it expires...