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Diana: **Arthur's** discussion about Tibetan lifestyle, past, present, and beyond was as factual and non-biased as possible. Arthur also expressed a real desire for there to be peace eventually.

Interesting questions asked were about the Han Chinese who migrated into Tibet for all sorts of reasons: business, jobs, make a living and how these people often left. High rate of unemployment among Tibetans, high rate of illiteracy, and was there a systemic reason for their lack of job skills.


 * Ken:** Really discussed his adventures as a CIA operative back in the 1940s. Trained Tibetans for subversive work . Tibetans trained in Colorado and then air dropped back into Tibet. The results were not successful. Ken has a significant relationship with the Dali Lama.


 * Tom:** Wonder Wheel and Timeline, Books search technique on Google; how youth participate in their culture, looking for ways to share..... [|www.studentnewsaction.net]

Kevin: The geographic, the TAR was about 25 million km/sq and about half the size of the United States.
 * Arthur:** Only about half of the Tibetans live in the TAR and that the northern part of Tibet mainly used by the Nomadas whereas the southern part of Tibet was agricultural.

Global Warming and the rate was 4x faster for the melting of the glaciers. Glaciers fed the largest and most dominant rivers of Asia: forexample, Yanges, Yellow, Mekong, Brahmaputra....


 * Ken:** According to him we had not been involved in covert actions in Tibet since 1968 and seems that we have abandoned Tibet.

__Both men were united in their overall attitude that something needs to be done for the Tibetan people. Both undecided about the DL return to Tibet.__


 * Tom:** Partnership for 21st Century Skills, urgency to get schools ready for NEASC. //How to do this and anxiety displayed by administrators...//