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...time last year, Russian generals talked confidently of the final stage of their operations in Chechnya-mopping up the scattered bands of guerrillas who had fled to the hills to escape the Russian military onslaught. Vladimir Putin, in his most famous sound bite ever, promised in gangster language to "rub out" the separatist commanders, even if they were on "the john." But something has gone badly wrong. The guerrillas are back in the cities and towns. The Kremlin has turned against the civilian it put in charge of Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov, and replaced the military commander. And Russian officials from...
Trying to pump up children's IQs in artificial ways may also lead to increased stress on the kids, as the parents' anxiety starts to rub off. By four or five years old, the brains of stressed kids can start to look an awful lot like the brains of stressed adults, with increased levels of adrenaline and cortisol, the twitchy chemicals that fuel the body's fight-or-flight response. Keep the brain on edge long enough, and the changes become long-lasting, making learning harder as kids get older...
Vladimir putin wasn't able to rub out the Chechen guerrillas, Viktor Shenderovich remarked ruefully last Saturday, but he sure got us. Shenderovich, whose impishly satirical programs are wildly popular in Moscow, had just resigned from NTV, Russia's only privately owned nationwide network. A few hours earlier NTV as the Russian public knew it - opinionated, strident but often head and shoulders above the competition - had ceased to exist. In the early hours of the morning police and security guards hired by the network's new owners had taken over its studios and installed a new management headed by Boris...
...released on $3 million bail. The other main item was the assassination of the second-ranking member of the pro-Russian government in Chechnya, blown up while giving a TV interview in his home town. The attack once again demonstrated that Putin's confident promise a year ago to "rub out" Chechen leaders wherever they could be found - "in the latrine if necessary" - was little more than rhetoric...
...city, home of the Tower of London. Move on to historic Chelsea and Greenwich, explore literary Bloomsbury, then follow the footsteps of Jack the Ripper with a leading crime historian. Sample the pubs along the Thames; prowl the Mayfair world of Princess Diana--maybe even run into a royal; rub elbows with gowned barristers at the Inns of Court and then finish the day with a black-caped guide leading you down shadowy West End streets in search of ghosts of centuries past. "It was like taking a half-step back into the culture, and almost as good as living...