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...Russian Judaism is permitted to preserve its own culture. But all 17 Yiddish theaters in Russia have been closed down, and only six books in Yiddish have been published since 1959-compared with 144 in one year alone for the 236,000 members of the obscure Yakut nation of Siberia...
...each other, and their force makes the crust yield sideways, forming the great Fairweather Fault running up the Alaskan coast. The fault is a prolific spawning ground for earthquakes, and at its northern end is another source of seismic trouble: the great Aleutian Arc, which was formed by Siberia pressing southeastward into the Pacific and is dotted with active volcanoes. The Fairweather Fault and the Aleutian Arc intersect near Anchorage -which, as Good Friday proved, makes the site a shaky place for building a city...
Even worse, the Cygnians' laser-beamed response packed far too powerful a punch. When it hit the earth's atmosphere, high above central Siberia, its tremendous energy became a tremendous bomb. It blasted a group of craters 15 miles across and knocked men flat more than 30 miles away...
Incredible Crash. Is this what really happened? Yes it is, say Russian Science Writers Genrikh Saulovich Altov and Valentina Nikolaevna Zhuravlyova. It is their carefully detailed attempt to account for the incredible crash that rocked the Tungus region of Siberia over half a century ago. Something certainly landed on the Tungus. The craters are there, and men still remember the blast...
Painfully Solemn. Some of them insist that it was caused by a comet; others prefer to believe that a huge, extraterrestrial spaceship crashed in Siberia, or perhaps jettisoned nuclear fuel that exploded and dug the crater. In 1959, an expedition of students from Tomsk University claimed to have found that the area is still radioactive, and so many Russians accepted their observations that the Soviet Academy of Sciences sent its own expedition-which found no abnormal radioactivity...