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...great book about a motorcycle adventure will hit the shelves later this summer. A notorious capitalist, Jim Rogers, and a blond half his age, Tabitha Estabrook, ride around the world on two fancy BMWs, up and down Africa and South America, across Siberia, China, Europe -- six continents, 65,000 miles. I wouldn't have given them a chance in Vegas of surviving the bandits, but they weren't worried about bandits. They were too busy looking for investments along the road...
...vital centers of Russia's military-industrial complex had long been hidden away in closed cities referred to only by code names -- Chelyabinsk-65 or Sverdlovsk-45 -- located far from Moscow, in the Urals or Siberia. Today the cities are no longer secret, but life there has changed for the worse. Scientists earn less than $100 a month, and political control remains in the hands of the military, the KGB and former Communist Party officials. As factory subsidies erode and payrolls shrink, thousands of Russia's most talented researchers and millions of factory workers are struggling just to survive. They...
...Aeroflot jet pilot was apparently showing his children "the principles of flying" in the cockpit shortly before the plane crashed in Siberia last month, killing all 75 on board, according to a Russian government report. Aeroflot disputed the story...
...plane that went down in Siberia last month, killing all 75 on board, may have been flown by the pilot's 15-year-old son, claim several Russian newspapers, saying the evidence was found on the cockpit flight recorder...
...these arrangements don't always work: Russia has been trying to orchestrate a second pollack treaty in the Sea of Okhotsk, off Siberia, but Poland, South Korea and China have refused to go along. And even when nations enact bans or quotas for certain species, they can be difficult to enforce. Sometimes ships flying flags of convenience just ignore agreements...