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...Sunday morning in Sacramento's Meadowview community, and hundreds of Russian-speaking immigrants--men in dark suits, women in traditional head scarves, children excited about the latest X-box game--are thronging into the First Slavic Evangelical Baptist Church. A couple of blocks away, African Americans fill the sanctuary at Twenty-Fourth Street Baptist Church to listen to the Rev. Samuel Mullinax preach the same Gospel. An hour later, Latinos begin filing into the pews of nearby St. Anne's Catholic Church for a Spanish-language Mass. Meadowview residents live together, but many pray separately...
When Ukrainian immigrant Tamila Demyanik says, through an interpreter, that "the church is the major part of my life," it is no understatement. To the Demyaniks, First Slavic is a lifeline in a foreign land. Her husband buys bread at First Slavic and checks its bulletin board and a Russian phone book for community information. Longtime church members accustomed to America provide emotional support to newcomers and help them negotiate thickets of red tape in health care, housing and more...
...most lethal of Europe's recent disasters, however, was unrelated to the storms that so devastated Central Europe. Tourist settlements near the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk were hit Aug. 8 by tornados and flash floods that destroyed 424 houses and killed 59 people. The death toll there is expected to climb as rescuers get to cars washed away by the floods or crushed by falling trees and buildings. --Reported by Uwe Gunther, Charles P. Wallace and Regine Wosnitza/ Berlin, Jan Stojaspal/Prague and Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow
INDIGENOUS CONTROL The trend of recognizing indigenous peoples' claims to ancestral land sometimes can help preserve wilderness. In the republic of Yakutia in Russian Siberia, some 270,000 sq. mi. of arctic tundra are now off limits to all extractive industries except for the traditional hunting and fishing done by the Yakut people. In Ecuador the Awa people, after winning recognition as a communal federation, were given legal title in 1985 to almost 300,000 acres of Choco forest. Ten years later, despite pressure from logging companies, the Awa signed an agreement with the WWF designating 42,000 acres...
...drug runners when he was eight. After being sentenced to a maximum security prison in California for armed robbery in 1991, he found Islam. From there he headed to Afghanistan to train with Harakat-ul Jihad, then to Chechnya, where he lost a leg in a firefight with Russian special forces, and finally to Kosovo to help fight the Serbs. He describes with childlike glee his love of weapons and tactics. A daring nighttime raid on a Russian bunker becomes a brutal game when he and his comrades strip and take the encampment bare-chested, armed only with knives...