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...backup on the anthemic Climb On (A Back That's Strong), Colvin, 32, has paid beaucoup dues, working the Manhattan folk scene for more than a decade, in between gigs singing jingles and touring in Pump Boys and Dinettes. With Fat City she needn't worry about paying the rent. Its 11 songs are strong, tuneful, as hard to shake off as a wraith's visitation or a first love...
...Monday nights the MBTA sometimes calls it quits before the City Council. Council meetings, filled with long discussions of everything from rent control to softball games, have been known to stretch from 5:30 at night to past...
...question as to whether the crystal-growing techniques, at least for proteins, are all that reliable. Reviewing a decade's worth of such space efforts, scientists writing in Nature found that less than a quarter of the experiments actually worked, and then with only mixed success. Their recommendation: rent time aboard the already orbiting Russian space station...
...bread and butter while considering her shopping list. "You can't plan now," she says. "Things were more affordable before." Food costs the family nearly 4,000 rubles a month, a sizable proportion of their combined monthly income of 7,500 rubles. Money must also be set aside for rent -- 70 rubles now but set to rise soon -- and for transportation, which runs about 80 rubles. Not a kopeck is left by month's end for saving. Education and health care are still supplied free by the state...
...miles from Moscow, was once the estate of an old Russian noble family managed by Ivanyushkin's grandfather, famous for its Thoroughbred racing horses. Seventy years of Soviet control laid waste to the estate, and his grandsons are determined to restore it, even though they still can only rent the land. "We'll turn this place into a high-class modern facility," vows Ivanyushkin. "Soon it will be our property for keeps...