A Tibetan tale
COMMENTARY
Once upon a time, when Youdon Lamo was six years old, she and her parents were chased out of Tibet and into India by the Chinese army. Earlier this week, 49 years later and only months shy of the summer Olympic games in Beijing, 100 Tibetans who have trained for the arduous six-month journey attempted to return on foot, Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr. Full Story
Impact at 130 miles
Somewhere 130 miles above the Pacific Ocean, tumbling around the Earth at 17,000 mph, a disabled spy satellite met a fiery end late last month - destroyed by a U.S. missile-defense interceptor. The spectacular hit marks a definitive turn in the debate concerning missile defense, from whether it's technically possible to whether it's ethically desirable. Full Story
MOMENTS IN TIME
• On March 12, 1969, the London drug squad appears at the house of Beatle George Harrison and wife Pattie Boyd with a warrant and drug-sniffing canines. Sergeant Norman Pilcher, the man behind the raid, was convicted of planting drugs in other cases and went to jail in 1972. Full Story
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