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...Khodorkovsky's prison experience turned bloody last Friday at 3 a.m., when the tycoon's nose was slashed with a cobbler's knife by a fellow prisoner, later identified as Kuchma. "I wanted to cut his eye out," Kuchma said, when interrogated by the camp administration. "But my hand slipped." Kuchma said he assaulted Khodorkovsky because he was afraid of an imminent transfer to a different barrack, where he would have been in trouble with other prisoners - he hoped the assault would result in his being placed in solitary confinement until the transfer situation dissipates. After the assault...
...persecution may have actually helped Khodorkovsky's image in the eyes of ordinary Russians. Unlike other oligarchs who went abroad with the billions they'd amassed during the Yeltsin years, the Yukos tycoon returned to face a trial widely viewed as crooked, and ultimately prison. In many an eye, that may have transformed him from yet another sleazy oligarch into the latter-day equivalent of that Soviet-era icon of dissent: a prisoner of conscience. "The Kremlin has done free campaigning for him," quips legislator Alexei Mitrophanov...
...clients more likely to insist on a green house are people who care about nature and who want something more appealing to the eye than a tract house with a few solar panels slapped on top. That would describe the couple who commissioned Nathan Good, an architect based in Salem, Ore., to design their weekend home in Cannon Beach, a small town on that state's northern coast. The clients, who prefer not to be identified by name, have a long history as advocates for environmental awareness. After losing their weekend cabin in a fire, they began to envision...
YOUR PETA VIDEO IS HAUNTING. WHY AREN'T MORE PEOPLE CATCHING ON TO ANIMAL RIGHTS? I'm impressed that you watched it. I think people are afraid of the reality of how fur and leather get to us. For fashion they turn a blind eye to suffering. They need educating...
...Italian Renaissance architecture.” The Planck award not only honors Payne’s accomplishments but recognizes her for her potential, he added. The Max Planck Society selects two scholars each year for this award—one German and one not—with an eye toward the future, according to the society’s website. The society seeks a winner “from whom continued high-caliber scientific work can be expected in the context of an international cooperation.” Winners receive a 750,000-Euro prize intended to fund future research...