Word: russia
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...decline of Chinese folk religions and tribal faiths elsewhere. After centuries as the predominant faith of the Northern Hemisphere, especially Europe, Christianity, as of last year, had a non-white majority for the first time in 1,200 years. In 1900 two-thirds of Christians lived in Europe and Russia; by 2000, three-fifths of them will live in Africa, Asia and Latin America. While Westerners cease to be practicing Christians at a rate of 7,600 per day, Africa is gaining 4,000 Christians per day through conversion from other religions, and three times that many through the birth...
...glorious spring of 1914, not all is dew-pearled. What with taxes, trade unions, the Irish and the suffragettes, England is going to the dogs. In Russia the throne is tottering and workers are out in the streets demanding democracy. In Germany, the Kaiser's men are oiling the guns of August. The Allies attempt to persuade Russia to engage the Boche on the eastern front. But the Bear hangs tough, and time is short...
This scenario is shrewdly amplified by an expert in the art of ransacking history for thrills. British Novelist Ken Follett, 32, rewrote World War II in The Eye of the Needle and reinterpreted Middle East tensions in Triple. In The Man from St. Petersburg, he recalls Russia and England during the days just before the Great War. As always, his plot is eerily plausible...
Wylie added that the Council had also passed a resolution to "adopt" a sister city in Russia by having Cambridge citizens write letters to their counterparts in the Soviet Union. The Council hopes that other U.S. cities will follow Cambridge's lead, Wylie said...
...film got rave reviews from its young Soviet audience. "I liked it a lot because it was realistic. It was authentic," said Misha, 15, a Moscow high school student. Foreign students were equally enthusiastic. "I couldn't believe it was made in Russia," said a 14-year-old American boy at the Anglo-American School in Moscow...