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...computing platform with 10 hours of battery life, a blisteringly fast CPU and ambitions to replace your laptop. It's fine for Apple to be secretive when it talks about the future of its products. But when Apple talks about the present this way, it just sounds like Pravda...
...back on the shelves of state-run dispensaries. In World War II, every Russian soldier at the front was given a daily ration of vodka - roughly a shot's worth - and by the 1950s Russia had fallen completely off the wagon. In 1958, the communist youth organization Komsomol Pravda complained that members of its national soccer team were so drunk they couldn't score a goal from five yards away...
...government's failings. "Is anyone talking about wages? No. Is anyone talking about the 4 million unemployed? No. Is anyone talking about the gas we haven't paid for? No," he says. The media have also questioned Tymoshenko's motives. A headline on one Ukrainian news website, Ukrayinska Pravda, read: "Who needs swine flu and who needs a high rating...
...stories about Chancellor Angela Merkel's negotiations to form a new coalition government from the liberal daily Tagesspiegel, a sprinkling of economic stories from the German business daily Handelsblatt and even incorporate a few pages of international politics from English-language papers like the New York Times and Komsomolskaya Pravda from Russia. If the stories seem repetitive after a few days, the customer can go back online and change their paper design, and a new edition will be delivered to their home...
...Kadyrov's racehorses have already found fortune at prominent equestrian events. Bronze Cannon, a four-year-old thoroughbred, won the prestigious Hardwicke Stakes race at Ascot in July. His Indian Jameson stallion won the honor prize at the Moscow Hippodrome's 175th anniversary. Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda reported on July 18 that Kadyrov had entered no less than 11 racehorses into the Moscow event, all of which, Kadyrov told the paper, belong to Chechnya, as do the two horses entered into the Spring Carnival. With Kadyrov's official income declaration of an $110,000 salary and a 36 square-meter...