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...Perhaps the best spot to enjoy the capital's new low-tar greenery is Lodi Garden. This well-kept park in the city center encloses some pleasant, leafy walks as well as a number of 15th century tombs, including that of ruler Mohammad Shah of the Sayyid dynasty, which is an early example of the style that would later culminate in the Taj Mahal. More importantly, it is also home to the Lodi Garden Restaurant, a delightful upmarket establishment that distinguishes itself by combining in one place all four rarities of the New Delhi dining scene: outdoor tables, palatable Continental...
...hours earlier Maoists killed 49 policemen in Bhiman in southeast Nepal. CHINA Dalai Envoys Representatives of the Dalai Lama visited Beijing in the first formal exchange in nine years between China and the exiled Tibetan leader. The delegation 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...
...course, that was more than seven years ago, before the night he got wildly drunk and flipped his Dodge Ram truck, bringing his seemingly sweet life to a crashing halt. Today Wendland, 48, lies in Lodi Memorial Hospital, kept alive only by a tube that delivers liquid nourishment to his broken body. Severely brain damaged and with his left side paralyzed, he cannot walk, talk, eat or communicate meaningful thoughts, if indeed he still has any. And though he is occasionally able to perform a simple, repeated command like a zombie--tossing a ball or placing a color-coded...
...particular attract charlatans. You made little mention of the health risks of their schemes. Entrepreneurs who market diets via their books are promoting not health but self-image. Your report gave my patients permission to eat whatever they choose with utter disregard for their health. CLARENCE M. LEARY, M.D. Lodi, Calif...
...only a pittance in taxes. The armed forces, which have a habit of intervening in Pakistani politics, are displeased with the Prime Minister, and some analysts fear that Nawaz Sharif's actions may increase friction between the pro-Western secularists and religious extremists within the ranks. Warns Maleeha Lodi, a newspaper editor and former ambassador to Washington: "Nawaz Sharif is trying to wrap himself in Islam. Perhaps he doesn't know that this will drive deeper wedges into a society that's already badly fragmented...