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...types to around 95 today, a drop of 84%, compared with a shrinkage of around 40% for Western navies. Of the few ships remaining in the Russian inventory, only about 10% are considered by Western experts to be fit to put to sea. One reason is that the bulk of Russia's dwindling defense budget goes to the army and air force to fight the war in Chechnya. That means little money for maintenance, and the result can be seen in naval bases all around Russia, where ships lie in rusting rows, crewed by unmotivated and often unpaid sailors...
...fueled by oil wealth that somehow misses the great bulk of the nation's 120 million people, a bumper crop of construction cranes pierces the Abuja skyline. The capital remains very much a work in progress. Many governmental functions and satellite offices - like the U.S. embassy, for example - remain a 10-hour car ride away in Lagos. The stark poured concrete design of most of Abuja's buildings contrasts sharply with the lush green palm fronds, reddish earth and mud, and huge distinctive outcroppings of coarse black volcanic rock that constitute the capital's older and more natural skyline...
...heaps most of its benefits onto wealthy Americans. Bush offers a couple of middle-class goodies--doubling the existing $500-per-child tax credit and reducing the marriage penalty--but since the thrust of his plan is an across-the-board cut, the wealthy folks who pay the bulk of the taxes would enjoy the greatest gains (the top tax bracket would drop from 39.6% to 33%). Bush would also repeal the estate tax, which in addition to providing needed relief to family farmers and small-business owners would deliver a windfall to the very rich. Result: a small number...
...notes, Alzheimer's disease, no less than heart disease and diabetes, will almost certainly be found to have multiple causes. For example, the genes implicated so far in early-onset Alzheimer's all lead to an overproduction of beta amyloid. But the genes involved in the bulk of cases, Selkoe strongly suspects, are more likely to do with faulty clearance mechanisms that aren't doing a good enough job flushing out the plaques. A sink can overflow, he observes, for two reasons--if the faucet is too wide and the drain too narrow...
...spotlight. By the time he left In Living Color in 1992, he had ascended from his humble roots as the second of 10 children in a family in the New York City projects into television history. He had also ascended to the galaxy of stars fated to spend the bulk of their careers overshadowed by their own TV excellence. (Coincidentally, these stars often have three names: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Mary Tyler Moore and, next up, Sarah Jessica Parker...