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...hungry is Bush? In late April, when former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who had suggested to the President's father that Dubya's foreign policy was off course, stopped at the White House to meet with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, the President dropped by for two minutes--and stayed for 20, pumping Gorby for advice. Bush has also heard from another old hand, the one whom Americans hope he consults but whom White House image-mongers are most sensitive about...
...breakthrough - slowing light to a stop, storing it and then releasing it at will as if it were an ordinary particle - has apparently been pulled off by two independent teams of physicists, one led by Dr. Ronald L. Walsworth and Dr. Mikhail D. Lukin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the other by Dr. Lene Vestergaard Hau of Harvard, who made similar headlines two years ago when she slowed a beam of light down to a nearly pedestrian 38 miles an hour. Walsworth's work will be published in the Jan. 29 Physical Review Letters...
...which Gazprom held a 25% stake plus one share; another 25% was held by Sem Dnei's president, Dmitry Biryukov. After watching Gazprom eviscerate NTV, Biryukov parted company with Gusinsky. On Monday night, one hour before Segodnya was supposed to go to press, Biryukov told editor-in-chief Mikhail Berger that the issue would not be printed. On Tuesday morning, when Itogi's 70-plus staffers turned up for work, security guards wouldn't even let them park their cars in the company...
...human genome. And you may not know that Harrison Ford, when he's not busy on movie sets, is an ardent environmentalist who is on the board of directors of Conservation International. Tracking down Jimmy Carter required the assistance of TIME's Hugh Sidey, and Charles contacted Mikhail Gorbachev via cell phone while the former Soviet President was traveling in Italy...
Jimmy Carter John Glenn George Soros Jane Goodall Harrison Ford Mikhail Gorbachev Walter Cronkite J. Craig Venter Edward O. Wilson Stephen Hawking