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...base to include many who oppose Yeltsin's reforms, including "national patriots" who yearn for the empire's restoration, hard-line Bolsheviks who idolize Stalin, red capitalists who own casinos in Moscow, and "social-democratic" intellectuals. "Creating that coalition was our first priority, and it is why we never refer to Zyuganov as the Communist candidate," says Valentin Kuptsov, Zyuganov's campaign manager and Communist Party deputy. But "Zyuganov is not merely a tactical nationalist," says James Billington, a Russia scholar and currently the U.S. Librarian of Congress. "He is a believer in a form of nationalism replete with conspiracy...
Storm chasing as an organized enterprise began in 1972, when the Tornado Intercept Project was launched to provide what radar meteorologists refer to as "ground truth." At the time, the NSSL was developing a radar capable of detecting areas of strong rotation inside big tornado-producing storms. The chasers provided visual proof that particular radar signatures did indeed precede the formation of tornadoes. The new radar, Doppler radar, made use of the fact that radio waves shift frequency depending on whether the objects they bounce off are advancing or receding. In this case, the objects that create the Doppler shift...
...define half our population solely in terms of the other half, as if they were not to be valued independently. The supposedly gender-neutral "person" and "human" are just a slightly hidden examples of the same kind of implicit sexism. Therefore, until a better alternative reveals itself, I shall refer in this letter to those with two X chromosomes as The People Formerly Known As Women...
...some vocal members of the Undergraduate Council to reflect upon the past year, and they'll offer you a litany of accomplishments. They'll rave about the council's greater accountability and improved public image. They'll even puff up with pride and refer to themselves as "The New UC." But don't believe the hype. The council is mired in a cesspool of irrelevance, misguided activism and petty infighting...
...country first, then to the Caribbean and finally to large developing nations like Brazil, China and Iran. Thus, Heber provides all Cuban newborns with the hepatitis-B vaccine for free and charges countries like India as little as $2 a shot. But the "special period"--as Cubans euphemistically refer to the economic crisis that followed the Soviet withdrawal--has redrawn these priorities, and Cuba's biotechnicians are entertaining larger ambitions. "We have the technology," declares Julio Delgado, who heads CIGB's industrial-enzyme program. "Now we're looking for partners with money...