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The mako is the quintessential shark. It is probably the most graceful of all sharks, the most beautifully proportioned, the fastest, the most strikingly colored, the most spectacular game fish, and one of the meanest-looking animals on earth.
Like other mackerel sharks, the great white and the porbeagle, the mako has a homocercal (equal-lobed) tail, and […]

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Formerly known as the A3XX, Airbus’ double-decker passenger jet, the A380, will be the largest airliner ever built. Lengthwise, it would nearly stretch from goal line to goal line of a football field while its wing tips would hang well beyond the sidelines. Three full decks will run along the entire length of the plane. […]

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China, which considers the Dalai Lama a separatist, had already denounced the award as a “farce” that would hurt relations between Beijing and Washington.
China slammed the United States on Thursday for awarding the Dalai Lama one of its highest honors and summoned the U.S. ambassador in Beijing to complain, saying its actions had “gravely undermined” […]

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Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi summoned U.S. Ambassador Clark T. Randt to express “strong protest to the U.S. government,” Liu said.
The United States has “gravely undermined” relations with China by giving the Dalai Lama an award, the Chinese government said Thursday. 
On Wednesday, President Bush presented Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader with the U.S. Congress’ highest civilian honor […]

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The Nobel Peace Prize 1989
The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
In Tibetan Buddhism, the successive Dalai Lamas form a lineage of allegedly reborn (tulku) magistrates which traces back to 1391. They are of the Gelug sect of Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhists believe the Dalai Lama to be one of innumerable incarnations of Avalokite?vara (”Chenrezig” [spyan ras gzigs] […]

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