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...RUSSIA Seal Cubs Face Mass Starvation Freak weather has stranded hundreds of thousands of baby seals on ice floes in the White Sea. Russian scientists said that unusually strong winds had prevented up to 200,000 baby harp, or Greenland, seals from floating to their normal feeding grounds in the Barents Sea. "Their mass death from hunger is inevitable," said a Polar Institute scientist, adding that even if some cubs could be saved, no money was available for their rescue...
...second-best jump in the world this season. The only athletes to reach such heights this year are American Amy Acuff, who also cleared 1.96 meters in Osaka, Japan last Saturday, and Russian Hestrie Storbeck-Cloete, who cleared 1.97 meters in March...
...Roppongi, where she eventually found work at a hostess bar called Casablanca, is the neon-lit playground of this civilization in decline, where Japanese Neros go to fiddle while their economy burns, where saked-up salarymen nuzzle Russian strippers and tea-haired twenty-somethings look to score designer drugs. The district is home to scores of dives, cafés, strip clubs, casinos and after-hours clubs catering to foreigners and to Japanese who like to hang out with them. The crowd - American bond-traders in Brooks Brothers suits, visiting models, second-rate rock stars, African bouncers, Israeli street vendors...
...United States that the world is changing rapidly and new threats are appearing," President Vladimir Putin said. "We must counter these threats with well-thought actions." The calm demeanor is in keeping with his attempt to project Russia, impoverished as it is, as America's strategic peer. Russian officials also acknowledge they won't mind if the U.S. pumps hundreds of billions of dollars into a scheme they think will never work...
...March, however, a district court in Yaroslavl acquitted Mezhennaya "on the grounds of the absence of a crime," to use the Russian legal phrase. The prosecution promptly appealed and the ordeal will now start all over again, in the regional court. Mezhennaya says she has no way of knowing whether she will still be free at the end of the month. Kukin, the TV correspondent whose report triggered Mezhennaya's problems, now works for the local state-run TV station. He is testifying for the prosecution that she urged him to do the allegedly slanderous feature...