Word: anastasia
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...Socialists offered to double pensions and wages in the public sector. But even that promise is fast becoming worthless; the lev currency falls hourly, and wages are now worth half what they were only a month ago. Standing in a long line outside the State Savings Bank, a tearful Anastasia Yaneva, 70, whose pension is now worth $4, was desperate to withdraw her savings and exchange it for foreign currency. "People are in a very aggressive mood," she said. "I'm afraid civil war may burst...
Fokin left behind his wife, Anastasia Khanina, and three children, Evgeny, 11, Anna, 2, and Grigori, only two weeks old. His wife, who does not speak English, has no job and needs help supporting her family, according to Chris Schmidt, a local filmmaker and friend of the family...
...with secrets? Forensic scientists have long known that a body's hair has tales to tell. To begin with, it carries DNA, which can be used to determine family relationships (that's how scientists determined that a woman named Anna Anderson was not, as she claimed, Princess Anastasia of Russia) or hereditary diseases (that's how they hope to prove Lincoln suffered from Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder that makes its victims grow tall and gangly). Hair also soaks up drugs and other foreign substances from the body (low levels of arsenic in Napoleon's hair established that...
...Anastasia Toufexis. Reported by Alice Park/New York
...Anastasia Toufexis. Reported by J. Howard Green/San Francisco