This spring, the Chinese government hosted a so-called World Buddhist Forum in Beijing, where they trotted out their version of the Tibetan spiritual leader, a 16-year-old boy named Gyaltsen Norbu. Meanwhile the real Panchen Lama, recognized by the exiled Dalai Lama in 1995, remains in the custody of the Chinese government.

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Christian missionaries have petitioned the government of Kenya to remove the bones of human ancestors from the national museum in Nairobi.

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On October 2, you may recall, a troubled young Charles Roberts entered a schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, and shot eleven Amish school girls, four of whom died.

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