Yak
Yak (female, nik; bos grunniens) is a species of bovid native to the high Tibetan Plateau. Though vanishing in the wild, where it usually does not descend below 4,300 meters, it is much domesticat...
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We depart from our usually tight focus to bring this dispatch from Tom Scocca, our media guy, who got his hands on a memo that probably wasn't sent to him:
This afternoon, New York Times executive...
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On Thursday, Oct. 4, celebrity shutterbug Todd Eberle hosted a birthday party for himself at the new apartment he and his partner, creative director Richard Pandiscio, recently bought in the new 40...
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Lhasa (dpa) - Tibet's new rail line makes the top of the world
much more accessible, traversing hundreds of kilometres of frozen
earth on its way across the Himalayan peaks....
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China is forcing nomadic Tibetan herders to settle in towns to clear land for development, leaving many unable to earn a living, a human rights group said in a report issued Sunday.Herders have bee...
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Warren Beatty had two words to describe his reaction at learning he would receive the American Film Institute's career honor: "Concealed weepiness."Celebrating its 40th anniversary, the institute a...
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Kabul (dpa) - Police found the bullet-riddled bodies of four
judges in southern Ghazni province where some 23 South Korean
Christian Volunteers were also kidnapped nearly tw...
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Kabul (dpa) - Police found the bullet-riddled bodies of four
judges in southern Ghazni province where some 23 South Korean
Christian Volunteers were also kidnapped nearly tw...
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Kabul (dpa) - Afghan and coalition forces killed at least 40
Taliban insurgents in two separate firefights in southern
Afghanistan, officials said on Saturday.
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Somebody should have looked at a map.The State Department with great fanfare on Tuesday signed an agreement with landlocked Mongolia that will allow Mongolian ships to be boarded and searched if th...
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China's largest cell phone service provider successfully tested a transmission station on Mount Everest on Tuesday, making it possible for people in the area for next year's Olympic torch relay to ...
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Yak
Keller to Staff: Nix the Yak
