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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alleged ringleaders dismissed the scenario as nonsense. The document was subsequently disavowed by the Moscow paper, but it had already set off so much speculation about Yeltsin's hold on power that the Kremlin had to respond. ! Even Chernomyrdin got into the act. Breaking off an important meeting with the head of the International Monetary Fund to negotiate a $1.5 billion loan, he jetted down to Sochi on Monday to join his boss. That evening Russian television showed the two men strolling along a promenade. The next day Chernomyrdin dismissed the stories of Yeltsin's illness as "insulting" and told...
...ignore the fact that all humans have similar amounts of neuromelanin. According to the melanists, neuromelanin can convert light and magnetic fields to sound and back again, and can capture sunlight and hold it in a "memory mode." Furthermore, they say, melanin granules are minicomputers that can respond to and analyze stimuli without interacting with the brain...
...promised $10 million in aid to fishing towns and called for federal help. That came last week, when the Clinton Administration announced a $30 million aid package for New England and said it planned to ask Congress for $50 million more. Declared Commerce Secretary Ron Brown: "We had to respond quickly to what is clearly a crisis. There's been gross overfishing in the New England fisheries and an extraordinary depletion of that natural resource." Some of the assistance, he said, will go toward training fishermen for new jobs...
Environmentalists respond that if the U.S. fails to act, the tiger will almost surely disappear in the wild. Noting that Taiwan and China have "been tried and convicted by CITES and the U.S.," Earth Island's LaBudde says, "A judgment of guilty with no penalty imposed hardly represents any deterrent." Thornton of the EIA agrees: "It is time for us to make it plain that we are not going to stand by and watch the last tiger disappear...
...will respond to their arguments in an intelligent and deathly serious manner. Given that this is not the way I normally work as an editorialist, dear reader, I hope you will appreciate my sacrifice...