Hulleye Comes By!

Tintin will be the first comic character to be awarded the Truth of Light award by the Dalai Lama, for making a significant contribution to the public’s understanding of Tibet.

In the story, the young intrepid reporter Tintin and his companions, the blustering Captain Haddock and faithful dog, Snowy, go in search of Tintin’s Chinese friend, Chang, in the Tibetan mountains. “When I read it as a boy, I failed to appreciate the irony of Tintin desperately searching for his Chinese friend,” van Melick said.

Chinese forces invaded Tibet in 1959, forcing Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to flee to safety in India, where he set up a Government in exile in Dharamshala. …

“It’s very effective and accessible for young people. It’s a wonderful vehicle for making them conscious of Tibet,” said Tempa Tsering, a spokesman for the Dalai Lama.

Godfrey Louis of Mahatma Gandhi University has isolated a strange, thick-walled, red-tinted cell-like structures from a mysterious blood-colored showers that fell in Kerala, India in 2001.

Godfrey, a solid-state physicists, speculates that these cells may be alien bacteria that hitched a ride with a comet broke apart in the upper atmosphere and then mixed with rain clouds.

Satellite could open door on extra dimension
exotic theory, which attempts to unify the laws of physics by proposing the existence of an extra fourth spatial dimension, could be tested using a satellite to be launched in 2007

Russians harness star power in new battery
Russian scientists have invented a battery that can capture energy not only from the sun, but also from the stars, the head of a research institute at the Dubna Nuclear Institute, near Moscow

Charmed woman marries cobra in India
woman who fell in love with a snake has married the reptile at a traditional Hindu wedding celebrated by 2,000 guests: but the snake failed to come out of a nearby anthill where it lives

Papua New Guinea :: Cargo Cult Clash
Follow-up on Black Jesus, with correction to my presumption: “The flower girls would be charged for taking part in an illegal activity”

The Man Who Sold The Planet
Lee Raymond, the chief executive of Exxon Mobil, has bowed out with $400m pay/retirement deal: in his 12 years at top of Exxon, it has pumped estimated six billion tons of carbon into atmosphere & led the opposition to action on climate change

Rolling Stone : Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted — enough to have put John Kerry in the White House

You’ve got Cancer - You must be nuts
Man told he has cancer, when all he had was a cashew nut.

A chronological list of the largest cities through history.
The five most recent cities and when they became the largest: Constantinople (1650), Beijing (1710), London (1825), New York (1925), and Tokyo (1965).