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DESIGN TOUCHSTONE Some of the "clever, innovative, creative and sleek" design featured on the site: a Galya Rosenfeld modular scarf handmade from reclaimed ultrasuede scraps from the upholstery industry, an iXi bike with an oil-free chain and David Ellis speakers made from dried gourds...
...Friends attribute his new attitude to his wife of three months, Galya. She was a receptionist at the famed "Lake of the Circle" training camp outside Moscow. She is five years older than he, and when they fell in love she left her husband, took her eight-year-old son and moved in with her mother, who lives near the training camp. "It was Galya who awoke a new interest in gymnastics for him," says Russian journalist Oxsana Tonkatsheeva, who is writing a book on the Russian team. "She made him want to train again...
...Sept. 2 Galya gave Nemov another reason to win. While he was training in Adelaide, his son Alexei was born in Moscow. Nemov had not even seen a photo of the baby when he took the floor and whirled from apparatus to apparatus, holding his first place lead throughout and finally taking the gold by a whisper from China's Yang Wei. "A lot of things helped me, but what was important is that now I know I have a son," he said afterward...
They returned to the trenchworks the next morning, New Year's Day. "We were crossing a bridge, and the Germans started shelling," she says. The smile fades. "One of my friends, her name was Galya, was hit. She died a little while later ." The smile is gone. Tears flow, moistening Zosimova's deeply wrinkled old cheeks...
...adorn the public album of his private life, he has chosen Galya, 8, his only greatgrandchild. The Brezhnevs' children are Galina, about 50, once married to a circus animal trainer and now the wife of Yuri Churbanov, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs; Yuri, 48, a Deputy Foreign Trade Minister; and Mikhail, 44, a journalist of whom little is known. There are three grandchildren: Yuri's sons Leonid, 25, and Andrei, 20, and Galina's daughter Victoria (Galya's mother). Brezhnev seems to have spent little time with them. In a candid moment, he once talked...