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...Kursk recovery is any guide, salvage operations won't be possible before May. The Russian Naval Command hasn't committed to a date but promises it will retrieve K-159 by next year--without foreign assistance. TIME's source is skeptical. The navy is short on funds. Three years after the Kursk disaster, it still hasn't bought the gear necessary for such an operation. The government, meanwhile, has allocated only $70 million for all nuclear clean-up and maintenance in Russia. It cost $150 million to recover the Kursk. --By Yuri Zarakhovich
...next spring, leaves peripheral devices, such as a DVD player, cable box or satellite hookup, connected to the SmartLink transmitter, far left, keeping the 15-in. television free of unsightly wires and letting you carry it around the house on a whim. The remote can command all your devices, so there's no need to race between rooms--or bribe a loved one--to go pause a movie...
...down, and its hull is deeply corroded. Although its reactors ground to a halt 15 years ago, the spent nuclear fuel - 798 kg of the stuff - was never unloaded. If the Kursk recovery is any guide, salvage operations won't be possible before May. The Russian Naval Command promises it will retrieve K-159 by next year - without foreign assistance. TIME's source is skeptical: the navy is short on funds. Three years after the Kursk disaster, it still hasn't bought the gear necessary for such an operation. The government, meanwhile, has allocated only $70 million for all nuclear...
...Security Council spent the weekend considering Washington's draft resolution on a multinational peacekeeping force for Iraq. The American proposal, prompted by the deteriorating security situation in Iraq and spiraling costs of reconstruction, envisages bringing all troops presently in Iraq under a U.N. mantle, but with the U.S. in command. It was presented at an informal meeting of the Security Council on Friday. Both Washington and London remained upbeat about the resolution's chances of success, despite early opposition from France and Germany, which staunchly opposed the war on Iraq. After a bilateral meeting in Dresden, French President Jacques Chirac...
...founded in July 2001. "When I started modeling 20 years ago, pregnancy was something you hid," she says. "But when I was pregnant [in 2000], I never worked so much." Business has quadrupled since the agency opened, and some of the 100 pregnant models on Elliott-Ramirez's books command as much as $10,000 a day. "It's a huge and booming market," she says. "There are new vendors every day, as they realize pregnant women are consumers who want to look good...