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...promise of Siberia is still largely promise, however. The vast land is far from tamed. Although sleek new Yak 40 minijets now dart from city to city and the Trans-Siberian Railroad provides a 6,000-mile spinal column from Moscow to the Pacific, riverboats and horse-drawn sleds still provide the lifelines from one wooden village to the next. In many places bears are more plentiful than people, and hunters frequently have to eject them from the food-stocked little huts that are established as survival stations...
...really proper to call them men any more. "Shapes" is a better word-grotesque sculptures of scarred flesh and gnarled limbs. At lunch at the hospital, they eat rice, fried pork and bananas, and as their chopsticks dart from bowl to mouth, they seem almost normal-but they are not. When lunch is over, they do not stand up. Years of being shackled in the tiger cages have forced them into a permanent pretzel-like crouch. They move like crabs, skittering across the floor on buttocks and palms...
...make love. The next morning, Maria's husband attempts suicide. Though she must have come to his aid at some point, when he committed the act and cried out for help, she was repelled, and refused him. At the redout which opens and closes her chapter, Maria's eyes dart to a hidden stimulus, and she quivers...
...track events, spring veteran Bailee Reed should get strong backing from junior Austin O'Connor, with Vandepool Wallace another possible contender. The hurdlers will be led by Dewey Hickman, with Ed Cole and football halfback Steve Dart providing support. Co-captain Clayton and Nick Leone are tops...
...rest of the ground rules were standard: each player would begin with a given number of points, shoot at a fiber board marked off in 20 pie-shaped sections with a score value of from 1 to 20, then subtract the points he scored in each three-dart round; each game had to be won on a double (zinging a dart into the tiny outer double ring) worth the exact number of points remaining. First to reach zero would...