Word: alexei
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into a state of high anxiety. The problem: our own galaxy has stars believed to be as much as 14 billion to 16 billion years old. And it makes astronomers more than a little uncomfortable to try to explain how stars could have formed before the universe began. Says Alexei Filippenko, a University of California, Berkeley, astronomer who was on the team that made the Hubble observations: "This is fantastic stuff ... it might lead to a revolution in cosmology...
...young girl survived the killing. Last year British experts conducting DNA tests on the remains of the royal family could only confirm the identities of the Czar, his wife and three of the four daughters. The more recent Russian study concludes that the bones of the Romanov son Alexei and his sister Maria, not Anastasia, were missing...
...their own dislocated sense of what has happened to their country and their lives. And by projecting the angers and fears of his dysfunctional childhood onto the national stage, Zhirinovsky has managed to transform his personal antipathies into a political world view that resonates throughout an entire country. Says Alexei Mitrofanov, the L.D.P. "shadow" foreign minister: "Zhirinovsky is a mood. He is a state of the soul...
Such crimes have become depressingly familiar in Moscow. A day after the attempt on Berezovsky's life, an elderly man lost his leg to another car bomb. Two days after that, Alexei Yeliseyev, the second in command at Vnukovo Airlines, was beaten to death in front of his house. That same day two people were shot to death by gangsters during a car chase on the Rublev Highway. What surprised onlookers was not the sight of a high-speed gun battle along the heavily guarded road. It was the fact that a modest, Russian-made Zhiguli was able to overtake...
...Russian Alexei Urmanov took the gold in men's figure skating after the favorites, including 1988 winner Brian Boitano, had disastrous showings in the short program. Boitano finished sixth...