Posted on 09/26/2003 5:42:34 PM PDT by foolscap
Edited on 06/29/2004 7:10:04 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
BOSTON -- Dressed in crimson robes and matching running shoes, the Dalai Lama stood out amid the tweed-wearing academics last weekend at MIT, yet the Tibetan leader was hardly out of place.
The 68-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner has said many times that if he hadn't been fated to be a monk, he surely would have been an engineer. He has had a lifelong fascination with science and a natural curiosity for understanding the way things work.
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