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1. Rare Tibetan mastiff can easily recoup $1.5 million cost with stud fees
(World/International)

BY TERI GATTO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM What's red, fluffy, has four legs and a price tag of $1.5 million? Big Splash, an 11-month-old Tibetan Mastiff! An unidentified man from Quingdao, China recently ...

2. Ignorant arrogance
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... course, all of the above pertains to dogs bred for function. The "Chinese Tibetan Mastiffs" being bred now are of questionable ancestry - and certainly *not* bred for any function other than making money. ...

3. $1.5 million sale of Tibetan mastiff puppy comes with multiple downsides
(World/International)

BY PAT SUMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Pity poor “Big Splash,” the red Tibetan mastiff puppy sold earlier this week for $1.5 M (US). That’s 10 million yuan in China, where the three-foot high, 180-pound ...

4. Dalai Lama coming to help Newark
(Life/Style)

... since the 2007 schoolyard killings of three friends. Katz said he was intrigued by Thurman's success in staging a similar conference in San Francisco in 1997. Thurman, a professor of Tibetan studies ...

5. Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity taking off
(U.S./Nation)

... of Las Vegas collecting Tibetan prayer flags for the event. "This rally will include some Tibetan-style symbolism," he states on Facebook. Through Facebook a gathering is being organized in Champs ...

6. Michael Imperioli maintains mood of intense intimacy in ‘The Hungry Ghosts’ (movie review and trailer)
(Entertainment/Movies)

... real empathy in this film for people's suffering and respect for their desperate attempts to find relief. The title refers to the Tibetan level of hell where souls with tiny mouths can never satisfy their ...

7. China’s strict gun control laws not enough to stop violence
(World/International)

... and killed a colleague over a chess match, and was shot to death himself by police two days later. Guns figured prominently during the 2008 unrest in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, when a policeman and ...

8. N.J. International Film Festival schedule announced
(Entertainment/Movies)

... documentary "Journey From Zanskar" which looks at amazing efforts to preserve Tibetan Buddhist culture; Peter Miller's illuminating documentary "Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story" which celebrates ...

9. Obama defies China by meeting Dalai Lama
(U.S./Nation)

BY KENT KLEIN VOA NEWS WHITE HOUSE — U.S. President Barack Obama has met with the Dalai Lama Thursday, defying China's warnings against the meeting. The president encouraged Tibetans and the Chinese ...

10. Scientist shoots back at global warming skeptics
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... air temperature increase, said Hasnain's report further. The Himalayas, located between the Indian subcontinent and the Tibetan Plateau, comprise the world's highest mountain range, including Mount Everest. ...

11. Civilization can be saved from climate change and food shortages
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... mountain glaciers have shrunk for 18 consecutive years. Many smaller glaciers have disappeared. Nowhere is the melting more alarming than in the Himalayas and on the Tibetan plateau where the ice melt ...

12. China reports third death from pneumonic plague in sealed-off town
(World/International)

... the farming community in Qinghai province when the outbreak was discovered on Thursday. Ziketan is an ethnically Tibetan town of 10,000 people in one of China's least populated regions. An American student ...

13. A trip back in time: The Royal Kingdom of Bhutan
(Life/Style)

... dominant landmark began in 1644. Over the past several hundred years the dzong, one of the finest remaining examples of Bhutanese architecture, has withstood many Tibetan invasions. As we approached ...

14. Meditation and childbirth come together at Overlook
(Health/Healthquest)

... and we try to stay present with the breath." Newman developed the method after more than 20 years of apprenticeship with Tibetan meditation teachers and doctors. He initially used some of the techniques ...

15. Cimate change: Snow cover turning to lakes in Himalayas
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... scientists from India, Nepal, Singapore and China. The Himalayas–Hindu Kush and nearby mountains, along with the high-elevation Tibetan Plateau that spans 1.6 million square kilometers, are the water ...

16. 100 years of culture at Newark Museum
(Entertainment/Movies)

Where do you find one of America’s best collections of Hudson River School landscape paintings? And one of the world’s best collections of Tibetan art? And a lovingly preserved 1885 mansion? And a planetarium, ...

17. Global 'cyber spy' network revealed
(World/International)

... cities belonging to the Dalai Lama's Tibetan government-in-exile, the Canadian team said. The network was uncovered after the Munk Centre for International Studies was initially approached by the Dalai ...