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 BEIJING (AP) - After four days hunkered down in his hotel as Lhasa reeled between rioting and police crackdown, 19-year-old Canadian tourist John Kenwood emerged to find street sweepers wearing vests with 2008 Beijing Olympics logos clearing away debris.
"It seemed almost strange that normal life had returned," Kenwood told reporters after arriving in neighboring Nepal.
Though four months and 1,500 miles apart, the turmoil in Tibet and the Aug. 8-24 Olympics have become tied in the minds of many around the world. China is furiously working to undo the knot, hoping to show that calm has returned to Tibet while quickly suppressing anti-government unrest erupting across a broad stretch of territory.
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