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...attention to the world's endangered languages, some of which have as few as three speakers. Here is a stat that will leave you speechless: experts say 50% of the world's 6,000 languages may be extinct by 2050. These tongues include Tofa, spoken by some 200 in Siberia, and Votic, used by 30 people on the Russian coast of the Gulf of Finland. Other examples: --By Harriet Barovick...
...vanishing fountain is only one indication of how great the drug line has become. Almost a million prescriptions have been ordered and mailed to Roosevelts, Longfellows, and such in the States; to less well-known patrons in Siberia, Greenland, and even Tibet. Techniques of compounding potions have changed little since the customers wore string ties and bustles, but the products are somewhat different. Patent medicines are less in demand now, and if there are any home remedies in stock, they are dwarfed by a modern refrigerator that holds biological serums and penicillin. Business is strictly ethical, and though students...
DIED. ALEXANDER LEBED, 52, blunt, charismatic Soviet general instrumental in defending the Russian parliament against a 1991 coup by communist hard-liners; in a helicopter crash in Siberia. When President Gorbachev was taken hostage by hard-liners seeking to overturn his reforms, Lebed, a hero of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, offered what turned out to be critical advice to emerging leader Boris Yeltsin: to forcefully rally the confused Russian troops by declaring himself the military's supreme commander. Though the regional governor's national visibility had waned in recent years, he remained a popular figure...
...DIED. ALEXANDER IVANOVICH LEBED, 52, governor of Russia's Krasnoyarski region, ex-army general and a 1996 Russian presidential contender, in a helicopter crash; in Siberia. An Afghan war veteran, Lebed protected Boris Yeltsin during the hard-liners' coup in 1991, ended bloodshed in Moldova's breakaway Transdniester region in July 1992 and signed the peace accord that ended the first Chechen war, in August 1996. DIED. LUNG SI-HUNG, 72, known for his portrayal of the master-chef dad in the 1994 Taiwanese hit, Eat Drink Man Woman; in Taipei. Lung achieved international acclaim for his roles in Pushing...
...tragic history. It was closely associated with the charities founded by Grand Duchess Elizabeth, Nicholas II's half-English sister-in-law. The day after the Czar and his family were murdered, Elizabeth and other members of the royal family were thrown down a mine shaft in Siberia...