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...Welcome back to the Suncoast Dome in Saint Petersburg, Florida, for the 1995 Women's Lacrosse World Championships...
...also with the critical focus that comes with fame. Some journalists in South Africa called his prize a "fluke," alleging that he had somehow set up the tableau. Others questioned his ethics. "The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering," said the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, "might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene." Even some of Carter's friends wondered aloud why he had not helped the girl...
...sunny afternoon in central Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave on the Baltic, two private security guards and a trading-company executive strolled along a quiet street. They were expecting to meet a middle-aged man from St. Petersburg. In exchange for $1 million, they would hand over an 8-in. by 8-in. metal container holding highly radioactive material. But as the traders and their client were about to make their open-air swap in mid-August, 15 police officers rushed out to grab them. The police seized the 130-lb. case emitting gamma radiation. Until a specialized laboratory can examine...
Russian investors learned some lessons of capitalism the hard way: rumors that MMM, the nation's largest stock fund, was close to collapse sent many of its claimed 10 million investors into a panic. Thousands of stockholders lined up in front of MMM buildings in Moscow and St. Petersburg clamoring to sell back their shares, once valued at $62 each. On Saturday the company closed its doors. The Russian government has announced stronger market regulation...
...Semitic, yet a few sentences later he allowed that there were too many Jews among Russia's democratic forces. Nor could he help speaking disparagingly of non-Russians from the Caucasus and Central Asia. Zhirinovsky chastised Russia's new rich, but his entourage included two young bankers from St. Petersburg who were scrupulously recording the scene with a video camera...