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...Russian President Vladimir Putin has many wondering how to pronounce his name (answer: POO-teen). To add to the confusion, variations of Putin take on new meanings in other languages...
...English] 1. to place 2. to apply for putain n. [French] whore, hooker poutine n. [French Canadian] fries covered with gravy and melted cheese curds putten v. [Dutch] to draw putina n. [Russian] fishing season putan n. [Albanian] 1. hornless 2. whore
Since 1965, astronomers have had powerful evidence that the cosmos began with a Big Bang and that everything has been expanding outward ever since. But in the 1970s and early '80s, U.S. and Russian physicists (including Guth) realized that powerful energy fields dominating the cosmos when it was a fraction of a second old could have turbocharged the expansion, forcing the universe to fly apart--or "inflate"--at a rate many times faster than the speed of light. (The light barrier can't be broken by things moving through space, but space itself is exempt from this universal speed limit...
...still talking about one universe--though one vastly larger than the tiny patch, a mere 30 billion light-years across, that we can see. But then scientists, including the Russian emigre Andrei Linde, realized that this inflation was more flexible than anyone had thought. Energy fields of early-universe intensity could arise purely by chance in subatomic-size regions of even a normal cosmos...
Boris Yeltsin must envy Alberto Fujimori his youth. While the Russian was forced by age and infirmity to give up on the dream, Fujimori has succeeded in conjuring up a third presidential bid even though his constitution only allows two. But Peru's voters didn't play along in Sunday's election, denying Fujimori a majority and forcing him into a runoff against Alejandro Toledo, a liberal economist whose support stood at only 4 percent some four weeks ago. Lima was wracked by protests Monday as Toledo supporters marched on the presidential palace accusing Fujimori of rigging the polls...