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There is, of course, a scientific explanation. A stubborn high-pressure system over the Rockies is keeping warm westerly winds trapped, while Siberian air masses come trundling over the North Pole and down the Eastern seaboard. Other observers, more seasoned, merely grumble that it is the cussed contrariness of Old Man Winter pulling one of his periodic bone-chilling acts on the East Coast. In any case, the record-breaking weather of the past month was, of course, all ordained last August when squirrels gathered nuts and spiders spun webs much earlier than usual...
...like Ulmus americana, and all proved unpopular. Says Plant Pathologist Eugene Smalley: "The resistance thing is the easy part. Getting a tree that nurseries will use, that's tough." Smalley's best hope: a rare hybrid called the Sapporo Autumn Gold elm, a cross of Japanese and Siberian elms. It resists the disease and, at least in its youth, resembles the American...
Nature and human enterprise have endowed the Soviet Union with wealth and power. The prodigious achievements of the U.S.S.R. in mining, agriculture and energy production still conjure up images of the infamous Siberian mines, collective farms and hydroelectric projects of the 1930s, where armies of political prisoners, conscript peasants and idealistic volunteers "built Communism" under the cruel supervision of Joseph Stalin's armed guards and commissars. Today's reality is less harsh, but the profile of the country still bulges with muscle; the recitation of its endowments and achievements is still redolent of brute force, monumentality and projects that dwarf...
...somewhat ungainly but poetic Siberiada (1979), directed by Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky. The Soviets have lost neither their taste for, nor their skill with, the epic historical drama. Siberiada traces the history of an obscure Siberian village from snowbound primitivism and isolation at the beginning of this century through war and revolution, to the discovery of a great oilfield in the late '60s. Like Dovzhenko before him, Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky has a way of linking a peculiarly Russian feeling for the sacredness of native ground with the developing force of the revolution...
...Soviets are correct about the Siberian blast, they may be rewarded for their discovery. Because diamonds make up 1% to 2% of uralites, some 40 to 80 tons of these gems, which can be put to use in grinders, cutters and drill bits, should be scattered throughout the Tunguska area ready for the picking...