Word: ruston
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gvozdikova lived with her parents in Boris Yeltsin's hometown, a city of 2 million called Yekaterinburg, about 1,000 miles east of Moscow -- and the place where Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was shot down in 1960. Today, thanks to a few good-hearted citizens in Ruston, Louisiana, who are raising $50,000 to cover their tuition and expenses for four years, Gvozdikova and her twin sister are enrolled at Louisiana Tech University. "When I left last July," explains Gvozdikova, who so wants to blend into America that she calls herself Nancy, "I thought things couldn...