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...rich peasant when Stalin imposed agricultural collectivization. Colton also spoke to acquaintances from Yeltsin's period as Communist Party boss in Sverdlovsk. He justifiably concludes that Yeltsin was already a rambunctious politician before Gorbachev promoted him to head the Moscow City Party in 1985. Yeltsin was like a bull in a china shop in the Soviet capital. As Colton points out, Gorbachev had ignored warnings that his protégé would smash all the crockery as both of them pursued reform. Plenty of Yeltsin's victims volunteered their testimony for the book. Their unanimous verdict is that he deserved...
...detecting drugs. Earlier this year, the National Institute of Animal Science in South Korea cloned mini pigs, with organs intended as human implants. In February 2008, Korean company RNL Bio took its first order from a Californian woman willing to pay $150,000 to replicate her dead pit bull terrier, Booger, from some refrigerated ear tissue...
Questionable name choice aside, it’s Booger the bull terrier who seems to deserve particular attention here. He (I can only assume a dog named Booger is male) is in a different category to those carbon copies created in for medical and scientific research purposes...
...only 20% full, and without significant rainfall, supplies of drinking water will likely run dry by October. "We're in crisis," says Joan Armengol, professor of ecology at the University of Barcelona. "And you can't leave 5.5 million people in crisis. The government has to take the bull by the horns...
...very good," he says, his breathing only faintly increased as I get up from the mat and suck in air. "You moved it from a double-leg takedown to a single-leg." Yes, my first seven seconds were heroic. If wrestling 60-year-old playwrights were at all like bull-riding, I could...