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...music business, where stars are formulated and marketed like so many sugary soft drinks, Ivan Shapovalov has come up with an original flavor. Take two Russian teenage girls, dress them in school uniforms, add some lesbian antics and don't forget a mildly catchy tune. The result: Tatu, Russia's most successful pop export ever, with more than 1.5 million albums sold worldwide, Top 5 chart positions across Europe and climbing in the U.S. True, much of this looks familiar, including the uniforms. But next to Tatu, Britney seems just cute and Christina seems almost clean...
...other manned space flights for the next two years. One immediate problem, though, is the International Space Station, which currently has a crew of three on board. They might consider one further flight to bring that crew home - the other option would be for them to return aboard a Russian Soyuz craft, which isn't the most comfortable or the safest ride. Beyond that, however, the space station is likely to be left unoccupied for a long time. NASA won't want to use the shuttle again until it can establish the cause of today's accident...
According to government documents, the two invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in Russian mutual funds and equities, beginning in 1994, until the government began investigating HIID—originally considering criminal charges?...
Case in point: four of us have chartered a driver and guide to take us cross-country from the capital, Ulan Bator, to the northwestern Lake Hovsgol in a Swiss Alpine--like region of reindeer herders near the Russian border. Though the trip is scheduled for two days, it takes four to grind over dried-out riverbeds and slog through mud bogs between hills that roll like waves and crest into craggy rock. The land is so empty at times that a mere stand of trees is welcome relief...
...divisions among Israel's 6 million citizens run - hard-line nationalists vs. peaceniks and Israeli Arabs; ultra-Orthodox vs. secularists; the poorer Sephardic Jews who emigrated to Israel from Arab countries vs. the Ashkenazi Jewish elite with its cultural and political roots in Europe, with the almost 1 million Russian immigrants of varying degrees of Jewishness tilting the balance hither and thither - external threats create the cement that binds it together...