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...What Siberia is like: The general American stereotype about Siberia is basically true. It's cold, it's ugly, it's miserable. I lived in a big city called Novosivirsk. It was a big industrial wasteland...
Home: Cabot House and Vero Bech, Florida. Before that, Siberia...
Little by little, the world is getting wired. Despite some big bare spots in middle Africa, Mongolia and the real Siberia (as opposed to the Cyberia Cafe), PCs and their attendant modems are knitting together the global village just as Marshall McLuhan predicted. While no country is as well connected as the U.S., with 32 PCs per 100 citizens, Europe and Asia are coming up fast. Among the reasons are the privatization of industry, which is breaking the stranglehold of government telecommunications monopolies, and the recognition by political leaders of the vital importance of getting up to speed...
...special training camps located in regions of the Soviet Union where climate and terrain closely resembled the conditions they would encounter once they went into action. In Chechnya I met young boys sent off to war almost immediately after they were drafted. One brigade, which arrived directly from Siberia, was dispatched into Grozny at night, knowing nothing of the city, in a fog so thick you could barely see 10 steps ahead. The commander of a tank battalion told me that he had to train his soldiers at the front, since they had been assigned to him only days before...
...Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness. In 80 wordy minutes, Kushner scampers through seven years in the collapse of Russian communism (the second half of Angels, remember, was called Perestroika) and bounces from the Kremlin to a fantastic archive housing the bottled brains of dead party leaders to a Siberia-like heaven. His final line asks, as Lenin did, "What is to be done?" Audiences are more likely to wonder, "What's been going...