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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...
...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...
...most senior member of the Harvard central administration--and the only vice president who preceded the Rudenstine era--is Vice President for Administration Nancy "Sally" H. Zeckhauser. Zeckhauser is responsible for the bulk of the University's massive bureaucracy, including Harvard Planning and Real Estate, dining services, facilities maintenance and human resources...
...indeed about as unpredictable as a pregame locker-room speech, all hype and balloons and no suspense. We know who wins. We only hear what the party planners decide we should. And news organizations are starting to wonder whether they should keep playing along. NBC will leave the bulk of the coverage to sister MSNBC; CBS would probably be better off with 'Survivor' reruns, akin to MNF's August 15 game, Tennessee vs. St. Louis, a rerun of last year's Super Bowl. At least next January's combatants aren't already settled...