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...first hint that all was not right came with the dish of “Russian Roulette” pickled peppers, so called because they ranged in intensity from mind-blowing to deadly. “So, which are the hot ones?” I cleverly asked my waitress. She didn’t even crack a smile. Clearly, exposure to spicy food had done nothing to improve her disposition...
...strangling Fritz with the python-like play that had succeeded in the first half of the match. But in a sign of possible trouble, he took an uncharacteristically long time on his fourteenth move ("Vlad thinking here is not a good omen for those rooting for living creatures," said Russian grand master Peter Svidler) and an extraordinary 42 minutes on the seventeenth move. With his clock still running, Kramnik suddenly "popped up from the chessboard," said match commentator Mig Greengard, and ran with his bodyguard Aziz to the bathroom in his boudoir. (Evidently the restroom is a fine place...
...colossal mistake. In the next game, they said, he'll waste time and energy second-guessing even obvious moves. Although Kramnik hung himself in this game, the machine deserves credit for putting him under so much stress that he collapsed. "Nobody sets up stuff like that Vampire," said Russian grand master Peter Svidler...
...Numbers 16 candidates on a new Russian TV show will have a shot at winning a trip to space. The winner must pass cosmonaut medical tests and endure Survivor-style competitions for the chance at a week in orbit 75% is the rise in women over 65 who drink heavily compared with a decade ago, according to a new British study 130 million cell phones will be discarded each year by 2005, according to a study funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 140 new tree frog species were discovered during a survey of Sri Lanka's rain forests...
Colmes’ 50-year teaching career began at Temple Mishkan Tefila in Boston where she taught English as a second language to Russian immigrants. She then taught preschool at local public and private schools in the Boston area...