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...happy feet, Diana whispered to Mary, ?Julian Marsh is putting on a show!? - the play?s first line. As each number came up, the girls silently mouthed the lyrics and moved subtly in their seats, miming the actors? gestures. At intermission, Diana strode into the aisle and did an expert tap routine - no small accomplishment, considering that she was barefoot. The theatergoers applauded her as vigorously as Mary and I had at home. A star was born...
...leader of the Order, an American white supremacist group, who died in a shoot-out with police in December 1984. "We don't consider ourselves Russian," Alexei says. "We belong to the white race!" According to Vyacheslav Sukhachev, professor of sociology at the University of St. Petersburg and an expert on Nazism, this kind of racism is seeping into society at large. Polls back this assertion up. In a survey by the All-Russian Center for Public Opinion Studies (VTSIOM) published last month, 61% of those polled approved of the "Russia for Russians" slogan, almost twice the 31% level recorded...
...first glance, Girenko might seem an unlikely target for assassination. A tall, somewhat fragile 64-year-old with a bushy gray beard, he was an ethnographer and anthropologist who earned his reputation as an academic specializing in Swahili studies and research on kinship. But he was also the leading expert on an indigenous Russian tribe - the country's growing band of neo-Nazis. As founder of the Group for the Rights of Ethnic Minorities (GPEM), Girenko had been a key adviser in 15 Russian ethnic hate-crime trials, including the current prosecution of six members of the St. Petersburg...
...explains later, to a previously unknown, intermediate species of this most ferocious marsupial - a link between the cat-sized Priscileo and the leopard-sized Wakaleo - whose lineage coexisted with Aborigines before dying out 35,000 years ago. "Nearly 30 years of digging," says Lizard Cannell, the team's explosives expert, "and we're still finding firsts. All the time...
...Riversleigh Fossil Centre. There, resident palaeontologist John Scanlon frees the bones by dissolving the surrounding limestone in dilute acetic acid. Since the vats were installed earlier this year, "I've just been hooked," says Scanlon, who at 12 became fascinated with Australian snakes and is now Australia's leading expert on the fossilized type. He holds up the 25-million-year-old femur of one of those giant birds. There's a conspicuous puncture mark, a perfect match for the tooth of an extinct giant crocodile...